OBJECTIVE Compared to nonanxious depressed patients, anxious depressed patients respond less to pharmacotherapy, prompting consideration of alternate treatments. Based on the transdiagnostic principles of cognitive therapy (CT), we predicted that anxious depressed patients would respond as well to CT as nonanxious depressed patients. METHOD Adults (n = 523) with recurrent major depressive dis...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have demonstrated a high prevalence of pharyngeal (P) and rectal (R) Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections among men who have sex with men (MSM). Guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend testing at least annually. But surveys of medical providers suggest that adherence to these guidelines is minimal as a resu...

When considering the optimal molecular packing to realize charge multiplication in organic photovoltaic materials, subtle changes intermolecular transfer (CT) coupling can strongly modulate singlet fission. To understand why certain arrangements are more conducive by triplet pair (TT) formation, we measure diffraction-limited transient absorption (TA) response from four single-crystal functiona...

The effectiveness and mechanisms of psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in treating sleep problems is of interest. This study compared the effects of a trauma-focused and a non-trauma-focused psychotherapy on sleep, to investigate whether 1) sleep improves with psychotherapy for PTSD; 2) the degree of sleep improvement depends on whether the intervention is trauma or nontra...

BACKGROUND The present study is an evaluation of a self-collected urine dip (SCUD) swab as an alternative sampling method for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) in urine samples that conforms to postal service regulations in Australia. METHODS Sixty urine samples, previously identified as CT positive were used to prepare SCUD swabs in vitro. In addition, replicate SCUD swabs were pre...

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to determine (i) the extent to which small-area estimates of self-rated health are dependent upon the choice of areal unit and measure of socio-economic (SES) status, and (ii) the extent to which place effects on self-rated health are dependent upon the choice of areal unit and measure of SES. METHODS The data were obtained from a subset of responden...

Nail-gun injury is commonly encountered in the emergency department. The severity of the injury depends on the specific injuries to organs and vascular structures. Computed tomography (CT) is the ideal imaging test of choice, as it can identify the more critical injuries that require immediate intervention. We present a case of self-inflicted nail-gun injury with intracranial and intracardiac n...

BACKGROUND Chlamydia trachomatis infection (CT) is the most prevalent bacterial STD. Sexually active adolescents and young adults are the main risk group for CT. However, STD testing rates in this group are low since exposed individuals may not feel at risk, owing-at least in part-to the infection's largely asymptomatic nature. Designing new testing environments that are more appealing to young...

introduction: pulmonary embolism (pe) is a common lethal disease that its clinical symptoms may be seen in many other diseases. computed tomography pulmonary angiography (ctpa) is a valuable diagnostic modality for detection of pe. in addition, it can accurately detect the other diseases with clinical symptoms similar to pe. the aim of this study is to evaluate the frequency of pe and nonemboli...

in present pet/ct scanners, pet attenuation correction is performed by relying on the information given by ct scan. in the ct-based attenuation correction methods, dual-energy technique (dect) is the most accurate approach, which has been limited due to the increasing patient dose. in this feasibility study, we have introduced a new method that can implement dual-energy technique with only a si...