TREATING ANXIETY AFTER STROKE (TASK): THE FEASIBILITY PHASE OF A NOVEL WEB-ENABLED RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Treating anxiety after stroke (TASK): the feasibility phase of a novel web-enabled randomised controlled trial

Abstract Background Anxiety affects a quarter of strokes.It can be disabling even after mild stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA).It is not feasible to deliver conventional psychological therapies to the large population of anxious stroke shoe palace proofer and TIA patients.We are testing the feasibility of a web-enabled randomised controll

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Diagnostic accuracy of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for screening patients with imported malaria in a non-endemic setting

Background: Sensitive and easy-to-perform methods for the diagnosis of malaria are not yet available.Improving the limit of detection and following the requirements for certification are issues to be addressed in both endemic and non-endemic settings.The aim of this study was to test whether loop-mediated isothermal amplification of DNA (LAMP) may

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Molecular differentiation of the B biotype from other biotypes of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), based on internally transcribed spacer 1 sequences

Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is a worldwide pest of vegetable, ornamental and field crops.Biotype B of B.tabaci, which is economically most important of the biotypes, is distinct u motion bowling ball from all other biotypes (non-B biotypes).Fourteen populations of B.tabaci were collected from different localities and host plants in the Chinese mainl

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Warmer and wetter might not be better

As the climate continues to change, gaps in our understanding of how the altered environment will affect forest hosts and their pathogens widen.In some areas pathogens thought to be present for centuries are changing their behaviour.Dothistroma needle blight caused by the fungus Dothistroma septosporum in northwest British Columbia (BC), copyright,

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