Fear of side effects is the main motive for vaccine refusal. However, before the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention had been paid to the actual experience of adverse events and its relationship with vaccine hesitancy. This scoping review aimed to analyze the impact of VH on EAE and vice versa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Digital interventions can help to overcome barriers to care, including stigma, geographical distance, and a lack of culturally appropriate treatment options. "We Can Do This" is a web-based app that was designed with input from cultural advisors and end users to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people seeking to stop or reduce their use of methamphetamine and increase psychosocial well-being.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the "We Can Do This" web-based app as a psychosocial treatment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who use methamphetamine.
Background: It is common practice for senior medical students in UK General Practice to enter details of their consultations into the electronic patient record (EPR). There is evidence that students benefit educationally from writing in patient records through learning how to make good clinical entries and enhancing their clinical reasoning. In England, since 31 October 2023, patients are given full access to their EPR, including free text notes on their consultations.
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March 2025
Social robotics, a hybrid discipline that combines robotics with social sciences, has been receiving substantial investments from governments due to the ongoing challenges posed by ageing populations worldwide. Dementia is a neurodegenerative syndrome that requires long-term care and has therefore become an important area for social robotics. The scientific literature has many reports on the "needs" associated with the dementia care ecosystem; however, only a small portion of those needs are currently translated to discussions on social robots.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA significant bottleneck of continuous fermentation is the stability of plasmid-based expression systems. This work tested five plasmid addiction systems based on essential gene complementation in continuous fermentation. The essential genes tested were , , , , and and evaluated under phosphate-limited continuous fermentation at two dilution rates (0.
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