COVID-19 Pandemic's Effects on Occupational Health and Perceived Work Ability of a Large Group of Italian Banking Employees.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic compelled changes to the structure and organization of many occupational sectors that may impact workers' well-being and work-related symptoms.

Objective: Evaluate the effects of working modifications related to the COVID-19 pandemic on occupational health outcomes and work ability (WA) among a large group of Italian banking employees.

Methods: 2,859 employees visited during health surveillance in 2021 were divided into two job groups: front-office (FO) and back-office workers (BO).

The Total Worker Health® (TWH) approach: a systematic review of its application in different occupational settings.

Background: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in 2011, developed the "Total Worker Health®" (TWH) as a holistic approach to protect and promote the workers' safety, health, and well-being. After over ten years from the TWH development, the aim of the present systematic review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the worldwide TWH initiatives.

Methods: PubMed, Scopus and ISI Web of Science were searched for TWH studies published up to the 31 of July 2023, and 43 investigations could be included.

Mental Disorders Among Healthcare Students Attending a Large University Hospital in Milan, Italy.

Background: The high incidence rates, treatment difficulties, and tendency to become chronic, which subsequently affects personal and occupational functioning, make mental health disorders among the most important public health concerns. In this context, healthcare university students (HS) appear to be more vulnerable to psychological distress than others.

Objective: Investigate the prevalence of diagnosed mental illness among different groups of HS to detect students who may be psychologically vulnerable and determine whether the implementation of support interventions is necessary.

The Effectiveness of the Third Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine: When Should It Be Performed?

Background: COVID-19 vaccination is the most significant step toward the long-term mitigation of SARS-CoV-2-related complication, avoiding disease and death and decreasing virus spread. This study aimed to evaluate, in a real-world setting, booster dose effectiveness to reduce COVID-19 risk considering the amount of time after the end of the two-dose vaccination cycle. A sub-analysis was conducted to adjust the booster dose effect for occupational and demographic factors.

Long-term COVID symptoms, work ability and fitness to work in healthcare workers hospitalized for Sars-CoV-2 infection.

Background: COVID-19 can affect the persistence of symptoms and work ability (WA), hence the fitness to work of healthcare workers (HCW). We describe the effects of COVID-19 in hospitalized HCWs of a large Hospital in Lombardy and their implications on WA and fitness to work.

Methods: Fifty-six HCWs of Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Hospital have been hospitalized for COVID-19 since March 2020.

COVID-19 impact and vaccine effectiveness among healthcare workers of a large University Hospital in Lombardy, Italy.

Background: Healthcare Workers (HCWs) are a key element in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, but they are also at high risk of infection.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe, in a large university hospital which provided healthcare services to patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, the course of the epidemic among HCWs and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease.

Methods: Our case series included all "Fatebenefratelli Sacco" University Hospital workers.

Bioremediation potential of select bacterial species for the neonicotinoid insecticides, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid.

Thiamethoxam (THM) and imidacloprid (IMI), are environmentally persistent neonicotinoid insecticides which have become increasingly favored in the past decade due to their specificity as insect neurotoxicants. However, neonicotinoids have been implicated as a potential contributing factor in Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) which affects produce production on a global scale. The present study characterizes the bioremediation potential of six bacterial species: Pseudomonas fluorescens, Pseudomonas putida, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Alcaligenes faecalis, Escherichia coli, and Streptococcus lactis.

Examining the selection of university courses in young adults with learning disabilities.

The literature contains a great deal of research on Specific Learning Disorders (SpLDs). However, almost all of the studies related to SpLDs deal with the difficulties that said disorders cause during childhood or adolescence. An interest in adults with SpLDs is only recent, especially in university students like those in this study.

Differences between peritoneal and pleural mesothelioma in Lombardy, Italy.

Background: We examined characteristics of peritoneal (PEM) and pleural (PLM) mesothelioma in Lombardy, Italy.

Methods: From the Lombardy Mesothelioma Registry we selected PEM (N=300) and PLM (N=5011) cases diagnosed in 2000-2014. We investigated asbestos exposure and presence of asbestosis or pleural plaques.

Treatment with teriparatide might be associated with cardiometabolic changes in postmenopausal severe osteoporotic women.

Parathormone (PTH) has been suggested to affect the cardiovascular system. Teriparatide (TPT), the hormonally active 1-34 fragment of PTH, provides an anabolic treatment for osteoporosis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cardiometabolic effects of 18-month treatment with 20 μg/ die teriparatide subcutaneosly.

The role of ecotypic variation and the environment on biomass and nitrogen in a dominant prairie grass.

Knowledge of the relative strength of evolution and the environment on a phenotype is required to predict species responses to environmental change and decide where to source plant material for ecological restoration. This information is critically needed for dominant species that largely determine the productivity of the central U.S.

Names in Psychological Science: Investigating the Processes of Thought Development and the Construction of Personal Identities.

This paper examines the name as an issue of interest in the psychology field. In thinking about the role played by names for some of the most important approaches on the psychology panorama, it has been found that the analysis of names can be used as an instrument for the investigation of thought formation processes, or as an element in the process of constructing personal identity. In the first case, the focus is on the so-called "common" names, which designate objects; in the second case, instead, it is on people's given names and on the way they are perceived by their bearers and those who surround them.

Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome 3 onset with severe ketoacidosis in a 74-year-old woman.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), autoimmune thyroid disease, and autoimmune gastritis often occur together forming the so-called autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 3 (APS3). We here report a clinical case of a 74-year-old woman who presented for the first time with severe hyperglycemia and ketoacidosis diagnosed as T1D. Further clinical investigations revealed concomitant severe hypothyroidism with autoimmune thyroid disease and severe cobalamin deficiency due to chronic atrophic gastritis.

Rare case of Cushing's disease due to double ACTH-producing adenomas, one located in the pituitary gland and one into the stalk.

Unlabelled: We describe a patient affected by Cushing's disease due to the presence of double pituitary adenomas, one located within the anterior pituitary and the other in the infundibulum associated with a remnant of Rakthe's pouch. Cure was achieved only after the infundibulum lesion was surgically removed.

Case Report: A 38-year-old female presented with unexplained weight gain, hirsutism, amenorrhea, asthenia, recurrent cutaneous micotic infections and alopecia.

Parental health and child schooling.

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investments in children's education using detailed longitudinal data from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our study controls for individual unobserved heterogeneity by using child fixed effects, and it accounts for potential misreporting of self-reported health by employing several, more precise, health indicators. Results show that co-living children of ill mothers, but not of ill fathers, are significantly less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24.

Asymptomatic myotonia congenita unmasked by severe hypothyroidism.

Myotonia congenita is an inherited muscle disorder sustained by mutations in the skeletal muscle chloride channel gene CLCN1. Symptoms vary from mild to severe and generalized myotonia and worsen with cold, stressful events and hormonal fluctuations. Here we report the case of a young woman who sought medical attention because of subacute onset of diffuse and severe limb myotonia.

Long-term follow-up in adrenal incidentalomas: an Italian multicenter study.

Context: The long-term consequences of subclinical hypercortisolism (SH) in patients with adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are unknown.

Setting And Patients: In this retrospective multicentric study, 206 AI patients with a ≥5-year follow-up (median, 72.3 mo; range, 60-186 mo) were enrolled.

Catastrophic and impoverishing effects of health expenditure: new evidence from the Western Balkans.

This paper investigates the effect of health-related expenditure on household welfare in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, all of which have undertaken major health sector reform. Two methodologies are used: (i) the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophic' health care expenditure, and (ii) the effect of out-of-pocket payments on poverty headcount and poverty gap measures. Data are drawn from the most recent Living Standards and Measurement Surveys, 2000-05.

Anaesthesia for emergency caesarean section, 2000-2004, at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne.

The provision of anaesthesia for emergency caesarean section is a major part of the workload of obstetric anaesthetists and the urgency often dictates the mode of anaesthesia that can be provided. We have audited the provision of anaesthesia for 'immediate' caesarean sections over a four-year period following the introduction of a 'Code Green' system to coordinate a rapid response to an obstetric decision to proceed with an 'immediate' caesarean section. The records of all patients for whom a Code Green was called between July 2000 and June 2004 were studied.