Snedker Thomson

Italy is among the most severely hit nations in terms of hospital patients’ overload, and its healthcare workforce is struggling to cope with challenges that could threaten their own wellbeing. In this scenario, understanding the health-related consequences of COVID-19 outbreak on Italian frontline healthcare professionals is urgent. Our study…[Read more]

A recent research has identified chymase, a mast cell-specific protease as an exclusive novel therapeutic target to prevent Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) induced encephalitis. Interestingly, JEV activates mast cell specific chymase during its penetration through blood brain barrier (BBB) which eventually guide to viral encephalitis. Hence, in…[Read more]

This indicates that the associations observed are not solely due to selection. Conclusions Parents bereaved by the drug-related death of a child had a higher mortality than both non-bereaved parents and parents bereaved by other causes of death. Drug-death bereaved parents had particularly high external cause mortality. Our results indicate that…[Read more]