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Workplace stressor factors, profiles and the relationship to career stage in UK veterinarians, veterinary nurses and students

Veterinary Medicine and Science
Background Veterinary professionals experience higher psychological distress and lower wellbeing compared with the general population. Identifying workplace stressors is key to understanding and alleviating these difficulties.
Jason Spendelow, Clare Cripwell, Rebecca Stott, Kathryn Francis, Jenny Powell, Kate Cavanagh, Ruth Corbett   +6 more
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Diagnostic challenges in patients with suspected Lyme neuroborreliosis

Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2020
Lyme neuroborreliosis is a tick–borne spirochetal infection, which may affect the peripheral or central nervous system at the early or late stages of the disease.
I. M. Poiasnyk
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The Platelet Fraction Is a Novel Reservoir to Detect Lyme Borrelia in Blood

Biology, 2020
Serological diagnosis of Lyme disease suffers from considerable limitations. Yet, the technique cannot currently be replaced by direct detection methods, such as bacterial culture or molecular analysis, due to their inadequate sensitivity.
Victoria P. Sanderson, Iain L. Mainprize, Lisette Verzijlenberg, Cezar M. Khursigara, Melanie K. B. Wills   +4 more
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The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival – Public Engagement in the Birthplace of Paleontology

Geoconservation Research
Lyme Regis is a small town on the south coast of England, widely regarded as ‘The Birthplace of Paleontology’ due to by the many influential early paleontologists who lived and worked in the area (e.g.
Paul G. Davis
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Population-based estimates of healthy working life expectancy in England at age 50 years: analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

The Lancet Public Health, 2020
Summary: Background: Retirement ages are rising in many countries to offset the challenges of population ageing, but people's capacity to work for more years in their later working life (>50 years) is unclear.
Marty Parker, MSc, Milica Bucknall, PhD, Carol Jagger, PhD, Ross Wilkie, PhD   +3 more
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Protocol for a mixed methods process evaluation for a randomised controlled trial to improve shared decision-making about, and uptake of, osteoporosis medicines: the iFraP study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

NIHR Open Research
Background High quality shared decision-making (SDM) conversations involve people with or at risk of osteoporosis and clinicians working together to decide, where appropriate, which evidence-based medicines best fit the person’s life, beliefs, and values.
Terence W O'Neill, Robert Horne, Clare Jinks, Christian D Mallen, Zoe Paskins, Elaine Nicholls, Laurna Bullock, Andrea Cherrington, Jane Fleming, Emma M Clark, Ida Bentley, Jo Smith, David Webb, Sarah Lewis, Sarah Bathers   +14 more
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Cost-Effectiveness of the Interventions for Severe Mental Illness (SMI) in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LAMICs): A Systematic Review

BJPsych Open
Aims: Despite the high prevalence of mental illnesses, particularly Severe Mental Illness, there is limited literature on the cost-effectiveness of available interventions in low- and middle-income countries.
Abdul Latif, Martyn Lewis, Ghasem Yadegarfar, Zala Khan, Saeed Farooq   +4 more
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Differentiating Peromyscus leucopus bone marrow-derived macrophages for characterization of responses to Borrelia burgdorferi and lipopolysaccharide

Infection and Immunity
Currently, most tools utilized in host-pathogen interaction studies depend on the use of human or mouse (Mus musculus) cells and tissues. While these species have led to countless breakthroughs in our understanding of infectious disease, there are ...
Christopher C. Wells, Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja, Shumin Tan, Stephen C. Bunnell, Sam R. Telford, Linden T. Hu, Jeffrey S. Bourgeois   +6 more
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Exploring user experiences of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence’s Shared Decision Making learning package: an online qualitative study

BMJ Open
Objective To evaluate the user experience of the joint National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)/Keele University Shared Decision Making (SDM) learning package.Design A qualitative study using online semistructured interviews.
Jonathan Underhill, Neal Maskrey, Simon Jacklin, Jessica Thompson, Andy Hutchinson, Katie Maddock, Laura Norburn   +6 more
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Gene-based therapies for hemophilia

Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Gene therapy is a transformative approach to treating genetic disorders in order to improve disease outcomes for patients. Hemophilia A and B are inherited genetic disorders caused by mutations in the FVIII and FIX genes, respectively.
Melissa F. Glasner, Steven Pipe, Wolfgang Miesbach   +2 more
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