Effectiveness of health education package on hand hygiene knowledge, attitude, and practices among food handlers in a tertiary care hospital in Delhi.

Background: Food handlers can serve as a medium for potential foodborne infections through contaminated hands, posing a public health hazard. Poor handwashing practices among them can be a source of foodborne illnesses through cross-contamination. Health education intervention using multiple channels is one of the most effective tools for improving hand hygiene behavior.

Personalized medicine in a community health system: the NorthShore experience.

Genomic and personalized medicine implementation efforts have largely centered on specialty care in tertiary health systems. There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. In 2014, NorthShore University HealthSystem launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine.

Cancer-associated thrombosis by cancer sites and inherited factors in a prospective population-based cohort.

Cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) is common and associated with mortality. We estimated CAT rate by cancer sites and inherited factors among cancer patients from the UK Biobank (N =70,406). The 12-month CAT rate after cancer diagnosis was 2.

Psychosocial health and its associated factors among Men who have sex with Men in India: A cross-sectional study.

Background And Aim: MSM in India experience complex and multiple psychosocial challenges. The current study was conducted with an aim to assess the magnitude and predictors of psychosocial health-related problems including MSM registered in targeted intervention centers in Delhi.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 235 MSMs.

Clinical characteristics and viral load dynamics of COVID-19 in a mildly or moderately symptomatic outpatient sample.

Background: Studies of outpatients with mild or moderate COVID-19 are uncommon. We studied: 1) association of symptoms with reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results; and 2) association of initial RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) in relation to duration of RT-PCR positivity in outpatients with mild or moderate COVID-19.

Methods: This was a cohort study of outpatients with confirmed COVID-19 and at least one symptom.