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Impaired Alertness Correlates With Chronic Anxiety: A Prospective Tertiary University Centre Cohort

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) is a widely used objective measure of daytime alertness, especially in patients with sleep disorders at increased risk of accidents. Anxiety and depression are common in this population and may influence subjective sleepiness and objective alertness.
Anice Borjon   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospice care for Medicaid cancer patients in Puerto Rico: implications on healthcare costs and utilization. [PDF]

open access: yesJNCI Cancer Spectr
Ortiz-Ortiz KJ   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Erased by law: Kinship, care, and bureaucratic exclusion at the end of life in South Korea

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how institutional frameworks in South Korea erase nonlegal caregiving relationships within hospice care environments. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork, the study delineates how patients are categorized as “unclaimed” despite the presence of long‐term companions or cohabitants who provide intimate end‐of ...
Seok Joo Youn
wiley   +1 more source

Utilizing Pharmacogenetic Results to Optimize Medication Management in Hospice Care: A Pilot Study. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Pers Med
Dreikorn EN   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it,
Edwin Ambani Ameso
wiley   +1 more source

Amyloid β alters vascular CaV1.2 channel spatiotemporal properties

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Amyloid‐β1‐42 (Aβ1‐42) triggers a male‐specific signalling cascade influencing CaV1.2 spatiotemporal properties in cerebral vascular smooth muscle. The signalling pathway involves NADPH oxidase (NOX)‐derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) activation of protein kinase C (PKC). Aβ1‐42 can also activate protein kinase A (PKA).
Jade L. Taylor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicare Plan Switching and Hospice Care Among Decedents With Advanced Cancer.

open access: yesJAMA Netw Open
Hu X   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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