The burgeoning ageing population is often cited as presenting some of the most challenging issues for the Government and the health care sector. However, in addition to these challenges there are some very real opportunities for the pharmacy profession to provide further services in residential aged ...
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Disability and impaired physical functioning represent a significant burden for individual physical and mental well-being, and healthcare systems and society, as the prevalence of adults with multimorbidity and disability increase. There is some evidence from randomized controlled trials that interventions ...
Successful listening crucially depends on intact attentional filters that separate relevant from irrelevant information. Research into their neurobiological implementation has focused on two potential auditory filter strategies: the lateralization of alp
Briefly, 20,926 local Japanese women who received routine prenatal health care in the first trimester (<13 weeks of gestation) at 37 hospitals and clinics in Hokkaido prefecture were recruited from February 2003 to March 2012. A total of 8663 offspring born between May 2003 and November 2006...
Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan and 5Grand Tower Medical Court Life Care Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan Correspondence: Dr N Inoue, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Yasuda Women's University, 6-13-1 Yasuhigashi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima 731-0153, Jap...
of 7 possible items (ie, inability to access medical care, inability to access dental care, lack of sufficient access to food, inability to pay for telephone services, having gas or electricity shut off for nonpayment, inability to pay rent or mortgage, and/or being evicted for nonpayment)...
Within each stratum, participants will be randomized 1:1 to receive a lifestyle program or standard care. The program consists of 3 elements: (a) 12 personalized lifestyle counseling sessions using Motivational Interviewing over a 30-month period, (b) a wrist-worn physical activity tracker, and...
Apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4) is the primary genetic risk factor for the late-onset form of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Although the reason for this association is not completely understood, researchers have uncovered numerous effects of APOE4 expression o
the interaction of CD40-CD40L, among others. These two activated cells form motile conjugates that maintain stable contact for minutes to hours20,21,22. T-B conjugates migrate towards the centre of the follicle, where activated B cells differentiate, a process that starts by establishing a pre-...