Racial and urban-rural disparities in lung cancer care: Insight from a Latent Class Growth Analysis.

Background: Reducing health disparities is crucial for improving health outcomes. In cancer care, disparities persist across regions, socioeconomic groups, and racial populations. To better understand health disparities in lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer mortality in the U.

Long COVID after SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy in the United States.

Pregnancy alters immune responses and clinical manifestations of COVID-19, but its impact on Long COVID remains uncertain. This study investigated Long COVID risk in individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy compared to reproductive-age females infected outside of pregnancy. A retrospective analysis of two U.

Local auxin biosynthesis promotes shoot patterning and stem cell differentiation in Arabidopsis shoot apex.

The shoot apical meristem (SAM) of higher plants comprises distinct functional zones. The central zone (CZ) is located at the meristem summit and harbors pluripotent stem cells. Stem cells undergo cell division within the CZ and give rise to descendants, which enter the peripheral zone (PZ) and become recruited into lateral organs.

Risk factors associated with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an N3C and NIH RECOVER study.

Background: More than one-third of individuals experience post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, which includes long-COVID). The objective is to identify risk factors associated with PASC/long-COVID diagnosis.

Methods: This was a retrospective case-control study including 31 health systems in the United States from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C).

Determinants of Indian physicians' satisfaction & dissatisfaction from their job.

Background & Objectives: Physicians' satisfaction/dissatisfaction from their job is an important factor associated with health service that deals with human life. This study was conducted to ascertain overall level and proportion of physicians' satisfaction from their job as well as to identify those components that influenced it.

Method: A comprehensive customized questionnaire was used with Section A to assess demographic profile of physicians and Section B to assess satisfaction.

Impact of national rural health mission on perinatal mortality in rural India.

Innovations under National Rural Health Mission have paved the way for increased utilization of hospitals for childbirth. The association of increase in hospital deliveries with decline in the perinatal mortality rate in rural India after the launch of NRHM in 2005 was assessed using the Sample Registration System reports. Relative increase in hospital deliveries was 57% ;from year 2005 to 2008 but relative decline in the PNMR was only 2.