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Trans Adults Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Quality of Life, Pandemic Impact, and Vaccine Preferences
(2021-11-28)
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting marginalized communities, such as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), disabled individuals, and transgender/nonbinary (i.e., trans) individuals. As ...
Four Kinds of Hard: An Understanding of Cancer and Death among Latino Community Leaders
(2021-03-23)
Early integration of palliative care after a diagnosis of cancer improves outcomes, yet such care for Latino populations is lacking in rural regions of the United States. We used a participatory action research design with ...
Social Connectivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparities among Medicare Beneficiaries
(2021-07-07)
Purpose: Social connections are essential for health and well-being at all ages and may be especially important for promoting health in later life. Maintaining social connections, however, became increasingly ...
Morbihan disease: A diagnostic dilemma: two cases with successful resolution
(2021-06-11)
Morbihan syndrome is a rare entity characterized by persistent erythema and solid edema of upper two-thirds of the face. Although its etiology is poorly understood, it is known to have a wide differential diagnosis and is ...
Can GPR4 be a potential therapeutic target for COVID-19?
(2021-01-21)
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first emerged in late 2019 and has since rapidly become a global pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 infection causes damages to ...
A comparison of two keyboarding instruction methods over 2 years for elementary students.
(2021-07)
Background: As computer and digital device use continues to grow in prevalence for school and work tasks, it is important for elementary-aged students to develop efficient keyboarding skills to support future academic and ...
Research recruitment: A case study on women with substance use disorder.
(2021-03-12)
Women with substance use disorder may evade research participation because of individual and societal factors. Limited information exists on recruitment of women with substance use disorder. The purpose of this study was ...
The smells of eternity: Aromatic oils and resins in the Phoenician mortuary record
(2021-09-30)
This chapter surveys and analyses the aromatic substances associated with burial and the preservation of the dead in the Iron Age Phoenician Levant (c. 1100–300 bce), as part of an exploration of the lost smellscapes of ...
Association of race and health insurance in treatment disparities of colon cancer: A retrospective analysis utilizing a national population database in the United States
(2021-10-25)
Background
Both health insurance status and race independently impact colon cancer (CC) care delivery and outcomes. The relative importance of these factors in explaining racial and insurance disparities is less clear, ...