Publications by authors named "J A Wurzer"

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  • A meta-analysis examined the effectiveness of cloth face masks compared to medical/surgical and N95 masks in preventing viral spread, with mixed results.
  • The analysis included twelve studies and found that medical/surgical and N95 masks were significantly more effective than cloth masks, particularly when fitted properly.
  • The findings suggest that while cloth masks are less effective, they might still be useful in settings where compliance with mask-wearing is crucial.
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Introduction: Good mental health is an indispensable aspect of good general health and different definitions of good mental health have been developed for the general population. However, it is not clear how these definitions can be applied to people with intellectual disabilities (ID), as they may have difficulties in many facets encompassed in existing definitions. Yet, people with ID can be mentally healthy or mentally ill just as people without ID.

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There is an active and growing interest in cannabis female inflorescence () for medical purposes. Therefore, a definition of its quality attributes can help mitigate public health risks associated with contaminated, substandard, or adulterated products and support sound and reproducible basic and clinical research. As cannabis is a heterogeneous matrix that can contain a complex secondary metabolome with an uneven distribution of constituents, ensuring its quality requires appropriate sampling procedures and a suite of tests, analytical procedures, and acceptance criteria to define the identity, content of constituents (e.

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Purpose: We evaluated the use of high dose-rate-like stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) retreatment for biopsy-proven local persistence in prostate postradiation therapy, evaluating efficacy and toxicity.

Methods And Materials: From 2009 to 2018, 50 patients with biopsy-proven recurrent prostate cancer >2 years after prior treatment were retreated with a high dose-rate-like dose of 3400 cGy over 5 fractions. Previous radiation therapy dose measured 75.

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