ADDITION OF CARE FOR TRANSGENDER-RELATED PATIENT CARE INTO DOCTORATE OF PHARMACY CURRICULUM: IMPLEMENTATION AND PRELIMINARY EVALUATION

Addition of Care for Transgender-Related Patient Care into Doctorate of Pharmacy Curriculum: Implementation and Preliminary Evaluation

The number of transgender and gender-diverse patients seeking medical care in the United States is increasing.For many of these patients, pharmacotherapy is a part of their gender-affirming transition.Effective instructional methods and resources for teaching pharmacy students about this patient population’s social considerations and medical

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Biomass conversion and expansion factors are afected by thinning

Aim of the study: The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of Biomass Conversion and Expansion Factors (BCEFs) in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stands subjected to thinning.Area of the study: The study area refers to different ecosystems of maritime pine stands Protein Bars inNorthern Portugal.Material and methods: The study is s

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Utility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PCR in ruling out active disease and impact on isolation requirements in a low prevalence setting

Objective: To analyze and interpret clinical microbiology data for specimens tested with the fluorochrome stain (AFB stain), mycobacterial culture and 3DS a laboratory-developed Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) PCR in order to understand the performance of each test and to demonstrate the utility of MTB PCR to assist with decisions regarding discon

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Microarray-based transcriptomic analysis of differences between long-term gregarious and solitarious desert locusts.

Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) show an extreme form of phenotypic plasticity and can transform between a cryptic solitarious phase and a swarming gregarious phase.The two phases differ extensively in behavior, morphology and physiology but very little is known about the molecular basis of these differences.We used our recently generated Exp

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Repeated summer drought and re-watering during the first growing year of oak (Quercus petraea) delay autumn senescence and bud burst in the following spring

Climate change predicts harsher summer droughts for mid-latitudes in Europe.To enhance our understanding of the putative impacts on forest regeneration, we studied the response of oak seedlings (Quercus petraea) to water deficit.Potted seedlings originating from three locally sourced provenances were subjected to Travel Mug two successive drought p

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