Socio-Cultural Factors Delaying Treatment in a Patient with Late-Onset Schizophrenia by Ho Teck Tan, Manu Lal

“…We conclude that more can be done to improve mental health awareness and reduce the social stigma associated with mental illness.…”
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Investigation of Factors Influencing the Fear of Cancer Recurrence in Breast Cancer Patients Using Structural Equation Modeling: A Cross-Sectional Study by Hai-Tao Guo, Shuang-Shuang Wang, Chun-Fang Zhang, Hong-Jie Zhang, Min-Xiang Wei, Yu Wu, Chen-Xiao Su

“…Medical staff can reduce or buffer FCR in breast cancer patients by strengthening positive influences, such as social support, or weakening negative influences, such as illness uncertainty and resignation coping.…”
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Rare Neurological Manifestations of Scrub Typhus: Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Kerala, India by NR Salini, T Sreena Sreekumar, Sudharmma Ramakrishnan, S Srikantan, Jacob Antony

“…Scrub Typhus has emerged as an important cause of acute febrile illness in various parts of India over the last decade. …”
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Exploring the experiences of healthcare professionals in South Africa and Uganda around communicating with children about life-threatening conditions: a workshop-based qualitative... by Sue Ziebland, Julia Ambler, Julia Downing, Alan Stein, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Elizabeth Nabirye, Louise Walker, Elizabeth Rapa, Jeffrey R Hanna, Louise J Dalton, Teresa Pollard, Stephanie Santos-Paulo, Yasmin Gogay, David Kavuma, Ruth Mary Kemigisha, Juliet Namyeso, Tracey Brand, Beverley G Neethling

“…These included patients’ beliefs about illness, medicine and death, language barriers between families and the healthcare team, and emotional and practical challenges for professionals in having these conversations. …”
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Keeping Food Safe: Special Tips for Potluck Parties by Claudia Peñuela, Amarat Simonne

“…While it’s wonderful to be able to share favorite recipes with friends and to have the opportunity to eat a variety of foods without much cost, potluck meals are also associated with an increased risk of foodborne illness. To decrease your risk of foodborne illness, itis very important to follow the “two-hour rule” and refrigerate all prepared foods within two hours of purchasing or cooking. …”
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Risk of suicide in a sample of Egyptian high school adolescent students: a cross-sectional study by Eman S. Rabie, Marwa Soltan, Hanan Elrassas, Atteya Khairy, Moatazbellah I. Ali

“…Risk of suicide among students was associated with history of attempted suicide and psychiatric illness. So, early detection and management of students with psychiatric illness could decrease risk of suicide among them.…”
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Mental Health Recovery: Evaluation of a Recovery-Oriented Training Program by G. K. M. L. Wilrycx, M. A. Croon, A. H. S. van den Broek, Ch. van Nieuwenhuizen

“…A recovery-oriented training program can change attitudes of mental health care professionals towards recovery of serious mental illness.…”
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A Study on the Relationship between Sense of Disease Uncertainty and Family Strength and Mental Resilience in Guardians of Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Jun Yan, Lin Luo

“…Inflammatory bowel disease is difficult to cure, which seriously affects the physical and mental health of children and brings negative psychological stress to guardians. Uncertainty in illness of guardians reduces the ability of care and is not conducive to the treatment and recovery of children. …”
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A review on the characteristics, taxanomy and prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes by Vengadesh Letchumanan, Peh-Chee Wong, Bey-Hing Goh, Long Chiau Ming, Priyia Pusparajah, Sunny Hei Wong, Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib, Learn-Han Lee

“…This opportunistic human pathogen is the causative agent of listeriosis, an illness that mainly effects  immunocompromised, the elderly, infants, and pregnant women. …”
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Jeunes diabétiques et projets d’orientation by Joëlle Mezza, Valérie Cohen-Scali, Corinne Lecomte, Nadia Lemasson, Chloé Stoïanoff-Nenoff

“…Through the qualitative analysis of 11 semi- structured interviews, it seems that our population does not behave in a different way than other teenagers and does not incorporate the impact of their illness as a matter of priority in their future orientation.…”
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Mental Health Insurance in India: An Examination of Policy Implementation Post-MHCA 2017 by Vijaya Chandra Reddy Avula, Sangha Mitra Godi, Shashidhara Munivenkatappa, Sridhar Amalakanti

“…Our classification process involved determining if a policy explicitly covered mental illness, which we discerned by examining definitions of mental illness, indemnification clauses or the presence of International Classification of Diseases-10 codes within the policy. …”
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Use of Antiviral Prophylaxis in Influenza Outbreaks in Long Term Care Facilities by Allison McGeer, Daniel S Sitar, Susan E Tamblyn, Faron Kolbe, Pamela Orr, Fred Y Aoki

“…Influenza is a major cause of illness and death in residents of long term care facilities for the elderly, in part because residents' age and underlying illness increase the risk of serious complications, and in part because institutional living increases the risk of influenza outbreaks. …”
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Socio-demographic profile and clinical co-morbidities of cannabis users attending a tertiary care hospital in India: A retrospective case record study by Soumya Jha, Rupa Jha, Wenona Fernandes, Ashish Srivastava

“…Conclusions: Cannabis use in individuals with mental illness is more common in males and an early age of initiation was linked to earlier age of onset of psychiatric illness.…”
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SARS-CoV-2 Genome-Based Severity Predictions Correspond to Lower qPCR Values and Higher Viral Load by Martin Skarzynski, Erin M. McAuley, Ezekiel J. Maier, Anthony C. Fries, Jameson D. Voss, Richard R. Chapleau

“…Finally, when divided into severity probability quartiles, the group most likely to experience severe illness (≥75% probability) had a Ct of 16.6 (n = 10), whereas the group least likely to experience severe illness (<25% probability) had a Ct of 21.4 (n = 350) (P=0.0045). …”
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Frequency and Clinical Features of Dengue Infection in a Schoolchildren Cohort from Medellin, Colombia by Berta Nelly Restrepo, Leidy Diana Piedrahita, Ivony Yireth Agudelo, Gabriel Parra-Henao, Jorge E. Osorio

“…These results showed an elevated dengue frequency in children, with symptoms similar to those of other febrile illness and transmission risk in households and schools.…”
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Perinatal Chicken Pox (Varicella Zoster Virus) Infection by Ali Annagur, Ayhan Tastekin, Pervin Gunaslan, Oguzhan Demirel, Ahmet Hakan Dikener

“…Classically, the cinical disease is a febrile illness with a pruritic vesicular rash. Maternal chickenpox between 5 days before delivery to 2 days after delivery (perinatal varicella) can cause severe and even fatal illness in the newborn. …”
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Modelling for the Reduction and Spread Transmission of the Dynamics and Control of Zika virus Disease: Using Ordinary Differential Equations by G. Adamu, A.S. Ndagara, M. Mamuda, I.U. Omatola

“… The Zika virus is a flavivirus which upon infection in humans causes an illness known as Zika fever. It is commonly identified by popular rash, mild fever and arthritis. …”
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Toward Molecular Level of the “Salmonella-Victim” Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution by S.N. Rumyantsev

“…In some individuals, however, the same microbes cause illness while others display immunity to primary Salmonella infection. …”
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Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…A principal source of that hybridity is the advice and templates for conduct that Isham “calls to mind” from her mother, grandmother, and sister – familial inheritances that gain posthumous currency as her life narrative progresses, and the cycles of illness and death it traces subsume these female relatives one by one. …”
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Correlation of Clinicohaematological Parameters in Paediatric Dengue: A Retrospective Study by Ramakrishna Pai Jakribettu, Rekha Boloor, Andrew Thaliath, Sharanya Yesudasan George, Thomas George, Manoj Ponadka Rai, Umran Rafique Sheikh, Kadke Shreedhara Avabratha, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga

“…Two patients succumbed to their illness while three required ICU stay.…”
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