Self-Sampling by Adolescents at Home: Assessment of the Feasibility to Successfully Collect Blood Microsamples by Inexperienced Individuals.

Blood microsampling has increasingly attracted interest in the past decades as a more patient-centric sampling approach, offering the possibility to collect a minimal volume of blood following a finger or arm prick at home. In addition to conventional dried blood spots (DBS), many different devices allowing self-sampling of blood have become available. Obviously, the success of home-sampling can only be assured when (inexperienced) users collect samples of good quality.

"A lonely time for deaf and hard of hearing kids": A qualitative study of the impact of pandemic precautions on classroom communication for adolescents with hearing loss.

Background: Pandemic public health measures, such as masks and social distancing, present unique challenges for people who are hard-of-hearing. This study sought to understand how adolescents with varying levels of hearing loss would describe their experiences communicating in a classroom environment during a pandemic and its associated public health measures.

Methods: Qualitative study utilizing one-on-one semi-structured interviews conducted from July 2021 to April 2022.

Erratum: Almost Qudits in the Prepare-and-Measure Scenario [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250504 (2022)].

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.

A primary cutaneous carcinosarcoma of the retro auricular region, how to treat and literature review.

Introduction: Carcinosarcomas are malignant biphasic tumours of epithelial and mesenchymal tissue. They are most often found in visceral organs, but also appear on the skin. Older age, male sex and chronic sun exposure are risk factors for its development.