Abstract Background Medicaid expansion via the Affordable Care Act, more recent legislation and Medicaid 1115 waivers offer opportunity to increase health care access among individuals involved in the carceral system.Effective enrollment of new beneficiaries and temporary suspension and reactivation of existing Medicaid benefits upon release is key
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread worldwide with an increasing number of patients, including pregnant women and neonates.This study aims to evaluate morbidity and mortality in the COVID-19 era compared to the preceding year in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana.Methods: This is a cross
Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) is useful to establish transmission routes and sources of infections for various microorganisms including Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC).The recently released SITVITWEB database contains 12-loci Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units--Variable Number of Tandem DNA Repeats (
Bonebeds and amber deposits provide a wealth of palaeontological information allowing palaeobiologists to reconstruct ancient ecosystems in great detail.It is a common view that these two sources of data rarely intersect in the fossil record, owing to distinct taphonomic pathways.Nonetheless, the past decades have seen an increasing number of boneb
OBJECTIVES: Soluble factors released by Bifidobacterium breve C50 (Bb) alleviate the gtech brush bar secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines by immune cells, but their effect on intestinal epithelium remains elusive.To decipher the mechanisms accounting for the cross-talk between bacteria/soluble factors and intestinal epithelium, we measured the c