Exploring adolescents' and stakeholders' perceptions of online and school-based mental health provision.

Background: Adolescents' engagement with online mental health support (e.g., apps, social media) may affect their engagement with traditional support, including in schools.

Establishment of a Quantitative Method for the Extraction of Nicotine and Cotinine in Gingival Tissue and Relationship Between Gingival Intoxication With Conventional Smoking Biomarkers: A Pilot Study.

Objectives: Smoking is considered a major risk factor for periodontitis genesis and progression. In clinical studies, specific indicators have been used to characterize the smoking status of the patient as the number of cigarettes consumed (NCC), the pack-years (PY), or Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND). However, available literature is missing on the relationship between cotinine gingival intoxication and smoking indicators.

Corrigendum to "An early economic evaluation of Kooth, a web-based mental health platform for children and young people with emerging mental health needs" [Internet Interv. 36 (2024) 100748 10.1016/j.invent.2024.100748 (Published online 2024 May 11)].

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An early economic evaluation of Kooth, a web-based mental health platform for children and young people with emerging mental health needs.

Background: "Kooth" is a web-based mental health platform commissioned by the National Health Service (NHS), local authorities, charities, and businesses in the UK. The platform gives children and young people (CYP) access to an online community of peers and a team of counsellors. This study reports an early economic evaluation of the potential benefits of Kooth in the UK.

A biofertilizing fungal endophyte of cranberry plants suppresses the plant pathogen .

Fungi colonizing plants are gaining attention because of their ability to promote plant growth and suppress pathogens. While most studies focus on endosymbionts from grasses and legumes, the large and diverse group of ericaceous plants has been much neglected. We recently described one of the very few fungal endophytes promoting the growth of the Ericaceae (American cranberry), notably the isolate EC4.