STRESSORS, MANIFESTATIONS AND COURSE OF COVID-19 RELATED DISTRESS AMONG PUBLIC SECTOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC FIRST YEAR IN TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA.

Stressors, manifestations and course of COVID-19 related distress among public sector nurses and midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic first year in Tasmania, Australia.

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers has been established, linking workplace factors with high levels of stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia and burnout.Less established is how COVID-19 affects both work, home and social life of nurses and midwives concurrently.This study describes the prevalence and severit

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The NAL-NL2 prescription procedure

NAL-NL2 is the second generation of prescription procedures from The National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) for fitting wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) instruments.Like its predecessor NALNL1 (Dillon, 1999), NAL-NL2 aims at making speech intelligible and overall loudness comfortable.This aim is mainly driven by a belief that these factors are m

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MYC Amplification as a Potential Mechanism of Primary Resistance to Crizotinib in ALK-Rearranged Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Brief Report

INTRODUCTION: Translocations of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) can be effectively targeted in advanced non-small cell lung cancer by ALK-TKI inhibitors including Crizotinib.However, the development of acquired resistance often limits the duration of these therapies.While several mechanisms of secondary resistance have been already identified,

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The impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on health and wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A case study of Kenya.

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) remain endemic to many regions of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) left behind by socioeconomic progress.As such, these diseases are markers of extreme poverty and Loaf Pan inequity that are propagated by the political, economic, social, and cultural systems that affect health and wellbeing.As countries embrace and work t

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