Background Healthcare professionals frequently advise people to improve their health by
stopping smoking. Such advice may be brief, or part of more intensive interventions. Objectives …

Temperature is considered as the major factor determining virus inactivation in the environment.
Food industries, therefore, widely apply temperature as virus inactivating parameter. …

Background Multiple different types of mediastinal masses may be encountered on imaging
techniques in symptomatic or asymptomatic patients. The location and composition of these …

Assessment and characterization of gut microbiota has become a major research area in
human disease, including type 2 diabetes, the most prevalent endocrine disease worldwide. To …

As Guadalupe Salazar looked out of her train window, her mind was full of images of the
past and questions about the future. Heading from Chicago to Los Angeles, she realized that …

Importance The National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria set a goal
of reducing inappropriate outpatient antibiotic use by 50% by 2020, but the extent of …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused more than
200,000 reported COVID-19 cases in Spain resulting in more than 20,800 deaths as of April 21, …

Background: Emergency department visits and rehospitalization are common after hospital
discharge. Objective: To test the effects of an intervention designed to minimize hospital …

On a sunny September morning of 2005, Tomas Aluja—my PhD advisor—and I were walking
around the campus of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona.“So, how did …

Climate change is progressively increasing severe drought events in the Northern
Hemisphere, causing regional tree die-off events and contributing to the global reduction of the …