Background: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a condition where an acid reflux into the esophagus with can resulted some symptoms. GERD is one of the most common disease in around the world. The most common symptom is heartburn, with its various risk factors. Diagnosing GERD based on the clinical examination or more advanced examination. One simple tool to help diagnosing is GERD questionnaire (GERD-Q). This study aims to find out the association of GERD-Q factors to GERD incidence at Kardinah inpatient wards.  Methods: This study is cross sectional design, with the subjects are all patients in the inpatient wards, and asked with the Indonesian version of GERD-Q plus other questions. All data will be assessed with chi Square test.  Results: Total of 84 respondents are in this study, where the relationship of each factors with GERD incidence are: gender (p value: 0.191), surgery (p value: 0.428), spicy foods consumption (p value: 0.920), fatty foods consumption (p value: 0.916), sour foods consumption (p value: 0.557), and irregular eating habit (p value: 0.023).Conclusions: Irregular eating habit is significantly associated with GERD incidence.

Early diagnosis of dengue fever and COVID-19 is made very easy due to technological advancements. The  non-structural protein 1 antigen test strips are widely used in various regions; however, false-positive events have begun to be reported in the dengue-endemic areas with the COVID-19 pandemic, even though statistically non-structural protein 1 antigens are very specific to dengue infection. We reported a case of the false-positive non-structural protein 1 test in a patient with COVID-19 infection.

Empathy is one of the virtues that should be owned by health care providers. In the doctor– patient relationship, empathy enables health care providers to win not only the confidence of the patients, but also assisting them to accept their state of illness and disease. As to the fact that medical students have a high knowledge of empathy in line with the study periods, empathic relation is often absent in doctor–patient relationship. This study is intended to look at the relationship between the length of studies and the knowledge of empathy. This cross- sectional study applied Baron-Cohen Empathy Quotient to collect data from 98 respondents at Atma Jaya School of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, academic years of 2013 (third year) and 2015 (the first year). The study revealed that 49 respondents have a higher level of empathy knowledge and 49 others at the lower one. Among the higher knowledge of empathy, 73.47% (n=36) had lower knowledge of empathy compared to 26.53% (n=13) at the higher one. Among the lower knowledge of empathy, 91.84% (n=45) had lower knowledge of knowledge compared to 8.16% (n=4) at the higher one. A total of 76.47% respondents with a higher knowledge of empathy (n=17) were the third year students (academic year 2013), whereas the 23.52% are the first year students (academic year 2015). This study has proven the relation between the length studies (academic years) with the knowledge level of empathy.

Hipertensi merupakan kondisi kronik dengan definisi peningkatan tekanan darah sistolik lebih dari 140 mmHg dan/atau diastolik lebih dari 90 mmHg. Hipertensi merupakan masalah global, di mana kurang lebih menyerang 1,13 miliar orang di dunia. Setiap peningkatan IMT akan meningkatkan risiko hipertensi. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh IMT terhadap kejadian hipertensi dan klasifikasi tekanan darah pada penduduk usia produktif di Kota Medan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode potong lintang dengan kuesioner, pengukuran tekanan darah, berat badan, dan tinggi badan. Responden yang berpartisipasi dalam penelitian sebanyak 352 sampel, merupakan pekerja yang datang ke tempat pemeriksaan kesehatan di tempat kerjanya. Uji Anova yang dilanjutkan dengan Post Hoc Bonferroni dilakukan dalam studi tersebut. Hasilnya, terdapat pengaruh IMT terhadap kejadian hipertensi (p-value < 0,001), dan terdapat perbedaan IMT terutama pada kelompok tekanan darah optimal, dengan hipertensi derajat 1, dan derajat 2 (p-value< 0,001). Kesimpulan penelitian ini adalah terdapat pengaruh IMT terhadap kejadian hipertensi dan terdapat perbedaan IMT yang signifikan antara kelompok dengan tekanan darah optimal, hipertensi derajat 1, dan derajat 2 (p-value< 0,001)

The impact of COVID-19 is enormous on various aspects of human life around the world, especially in the health system. The gold standard used to detect COVID-19 is nucleic acid amplification-based molecular testing. The fact in the field showed that this testing is prone to contamination, leading to misinterpretation and diagnosis. This error has the potential to have further legal implications. This study was a case report using a juridical-normative approach from various primary and secondary sources. A 26-year-old man has tested positive for COVID-19. After further investigation, it was found that there was a diagnosis error due to the contamination of the testing sample in the laboratory where the sample was examined. The contamination that occurs is not only the fault of health workers but is a series of impacts from problems in hospital regulations, the government, and the community's components. This incident affects legal responsibility for health workers and medical consequences on the community. COVID-19 infection is not only closely related to medical problems but also closely related to social and legal issues. Whoever, especially health workers, will receive legal and social impacts other than hospitals, the government and the community from this incident.