Health-promoting lifestyle is poor in older adults during COVID-19 pandemic. Elucidate the underlying mechanisms between health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle is important. Therefore, we investigated the mediating effect of self-efficacy and
CONCLUSION: Perioperative COVID-19 infection was strongly associated with increased risk of PPCs, but it did not increase the risk of postoperative early mortality, the rate of postoperative ICU admission, and the length of hospital stay in pediatric
INTRODUCTION: Faster turnaround times can lead to rapid patient treatment. Implementing a POC molecular COVID-19 test requires careful planning. In the POC setting, there are numerous operators and regular monitoring of their activities is key to the
OBJECTIVES: Caregivers of persons living with dementia in rural United States are a vulnerable population. During the COVID-19 pandemic, rural communities experienced heightened disparities in social services, healthcare, suicides, and mortality
With hundreds of coronaviruses (CoVs) identified in bats that can infect humans, it is essential to understand how CoVs that affected the human population have evolved. Seven known coronaviruses have infected humans, of which three CoVs caused severe
The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to communicating accurate information about vaccines because of the spread of misinformation. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) tried to reassure the public by communicating early on about the development and
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for millions of deaths every year. Immunotherapy is a groundbreaking approach for treating cancer through harnessing the power of the immune system to target and eliminate cancer cells. Cancer
CONCLUSIONS: Responders and non-responders to the third BNT162b2 dose demonstrated distinct initial immune cell profiles and changes in cellular subpopulation composition following vaccination.
CONCLUSION: The process leading to bites is highly dependent on the balance of dog-owner relationship. This was strongly disrupted during COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the increase of dog bites in households. Regarding dog bites, face is the most