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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Data on the effectiveness of one-off low-dose CT (LDCT) in reducing lung cancer mortality and all-cause mortality are needed to inform screening programmes in countries...

To assess depression, anxiety, and burnout among health care workers using well-established validated scales and to examine associations of these mental health outcomes with personal protective equipment (PPE) and high-risk...

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to overlap with the seasonal influenza epidemic, increasing the risk of overextending the health system capacity in Switzerland. Influenza vaccine uptake has remained low in most countries,...

The leading professional organizations in the field of hematology have recommended severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) vaccination for all patients with hematologic malignancies notwithstanding efficacy...

Brain tumor therapeutic responses can be quantified from magnetic resonance images (MRI) using 1- (1D) and 2-dimensional (2D) linear and volumetric methods, but few studies in dogs compare these techniques.Linear methods will be...

A woman in her 60s was referred to the Department of Gastroenterology with anemia. She had a recurrent transient loss of consciousness 11 years ago, and she was examinated at the cardiology and neurology departments, but the...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by the extracellular amyloid plaques in the brain. Recent studies have shown that ferroptosis, a recently identified cell death pathway...

The state of emergency and national lockdown declared in Spain over the coronavirus pandemic markedly impaired routines and access towards health services supports for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This...

Kidney transplant recipients are highly vulnerable to the serious complications of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) infections and thus stand to benefit from vaccination. Therefore, it is necessary to...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is considered a chronic disease, with an overall good prognosis. However, recent reports indicate pre-mature mortality. Causes of death have not been evaluated previously.In a nationwide...

This qualitative study explored public attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines in children, including reasons for support or opposition to them.This was a qualitative study using online focus groups and interviews.Group and individual...

World Health Organization (WHO) mentioned COVID-19 vaccination as the safest way to eradicate this pandemic. In the meantime, vaccine hesitancy (a delay in accepting or rejecting the vaccine despite the availability of...

Residents in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are particularly vulnerable during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In the first wave of the pandemic in many countries, 30-70% of all deaths from or with SARS-CoV-2 were LTCF residents,...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), one of the major pandemic diseases. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is the standard HIV-treatment regimen that...

Limited data are available about the prognosis of ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) in oldest-old patients, especially in China. We aimed to describe the clinical characteristics and prognosis of oldest-old...