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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed new, intense and, as yet, unquantifiable strain on the wellbeing of healthcare professionals. Similarities are seen internationally with regards to the uptake of psychological support offered to healthcare professionals during a pandemic. Junior doctors are in a unique position to offer and access peer support;…[Read more]

Joint immobility results in deleterious changes such as capsule shortening, bone loss and articular cartilage damage. Immobilization of rat knees in flexion for 32weeks resulted in the distinctive feature of well-established replacement of articular cartilage by bone. Determining the time of onset of bone replacement is critical for the prevention…[Read more]

The clinical utility of the construct of food addiction has been heavily debated. Though food addiction has been associated with psychosocial impairment in clinical samples, it is critical to examine these associations in non-clinical samples, to obtain unbiased evidence regarding this phenomenon’s clinical significance. It is also unknown which…[Read more]

3% and 97.1%), no statistically significant differences were found among the 3 groups in mean and minimum SpO

adjusting for age and sex (

= .183 and

= .464, respectively, ANOVA). With respect to the presence of an abnormally low oxygen saturation (SpO

 ≤ 94%), 4.4% of the CRSsNP, 10.9% of the CRScNP and 7.3% of the control patie…[Read more]