INFECTION PREVENTION PRACTICES AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG HOSPITAL WORKERS IN A NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER DESIGNATED FOR COVID-19 IN TOKYO, JAPAN.

BackgroundWhile healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk of occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus transmission involving them might be exceeding in the non-occupational settings.This study examined the extent of adherence to infection prevention practices (IPPs) against COVID-19 in their daily life and its associated factors among s

The war in Ukraine, a NATO-Russian proxy war, continues to influence the global security architecture, but the immediate consequences are felt especially by those in the conflict area.The local population decided, through the actions carried out from the very first moment of the invasion, to oppose the Russian occupation and was categorized as an e

ObjectiveTo explore the developmental trajectory of sleep disturbance in geriatric oncology inpatients and assess the impact of locomotive syndrome (LS) on this trajectory.MethodsThis longitudinal study enrolled 284 geriatric oncology inpatients through convenience sampling from August 2023 to February 2024 at the Oncology Center of the Affiliated

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (SBG) is not just as a traditional herbal medicine but also a popular functional food in China and other Asian countries.A sensitive simple strategy was developed for the first time to analyze SBG from eight different geographical sources using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with multivariate ch