More than 16 million Americans provide unpaid care for someone with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). During the COVID-19 pandemic, unpaid caregivers experienced increased chronic severe stress from widespread closures and social
CONCLUSIONS: The study suggests that providing smoking cessation support to individuals with COVID-19 is feasible and well-received. However, the findings suggest that the intervention's impact may have been brief. Thus, further research is
Virus interference is one of the oldest concepts in immunology. Recent findings indicate that it may depend on the host's anti-viral cellular immune surveillance processes, as well as on sequence-specific gene silencing mechanism guided by double
CONCLUSION: Our study findings indicate that mediating role of coping behavior in mitigating the pandemic impacts was statistically significant. It is concluded that coping behavior is a healthy adaptation to protecting the barrier against COVID-19
Tacrolimus is a cornerstone of immunosuppression after lung transplantation. However, there are no clear guidelines on how to administer the drug and the duration to achieve the required therapeutic range in the early phase of lung transplantation
CONCLUSIONS: Results advance understanding of the role mental health can play in information seeking, risk perception and mask wearing with implications for clinicians, public health practitioners and policy makers.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results for SARS-CoV echo the known excess of deletions in the ORF7a-ORF7b-ORF8 complex of accessory genes in SARS-CoV-2. A high frequency of deletions in this gene complex might reflect recurrent searches in "functional space" of
The content-analysis was applied to messages (created in April-May of 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022) from Internet. The drastic increase of interest of audience to issue of medical care support and professional activity of physicians during period of
CONCLUSION: Primary care practices in Western North Carolina continue to provide care to patients and support the overall pandemic response. The pandemic has highlighted the need to include primary care in emergency response efforts. Ongoing work