The COVID-19 pandemic has obliged Governments all around the world to implement confinement and social distancing measures. Leisure business activities on beaches in ports have restricted direct indirect contamination from, for example, plastics, hydrocarbon spillage, microbiological loads, noise levels. This led temporarily improved environmental conditions, having conditions closer Marine Pro...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to evaluate the prognostic value of treatment-related lymphopenia in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 413 consecutive stage II-IVb NPC patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) were enrolled. The overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) were...

Involvement of the type 1 cannabinoid receptor (CB1R) in the effects of alcohol on the brain is supported by animal experiments, but how in vivo CB1R levels are altered in alcoholic patients is still unclear. To assess the short-time effects of a binge drinking episode on CB1R availability, 20 healthy social drinkers underwent [(18)F]MK-9470-positron emission tomography (PET) at baseline and af...