We need to talk about “resilience.” One dictionary definition is “the capacity to recover
quickly from difficulties; toughness.” 1 Health Education England describes it as “the ability to …

Glutathione plays a pivotal role in protecting plants from environmental stresses, oxidative
stress, xenobiotics, and some heavy metals. Arabidopsis plants treated with cadmium or …

I want to set the record straight about some serious misinformation surrounding covid-19 death
certification and mortality statistics. I will paraphrase some of the claims that I have heard …

Care homes have been very badly hit by the covid-19 pandemic. This has highlighted their
historical neglect and marginalisation and has belatedly brought them into the spotlight. We …

As the saying goes,“necessity is the mother of invention.” With the global covid-19 pandemic,
we’re seeing scientific evidence evolve quickly, new technologies develop, and real time, …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as O 2 − and H 2 O 2 , play a key role in plant metabolism,
cellular signaling, and defense. In leaf cells, the chloroplast is considered to be a focal …

Objectives: To identify clinical characteristics of elderly inpatients that predict their chance of
falling (phase 1) and to use these characteristics to derive a risk assessment tool and to …

Objective: to identify all published papers on risk factors and risk assessment tools for falls in
hospital inpatients. To identify clinical risk assessment tools or individual clinical risk factors …

Objectives To evaluate the evidence for strategies to prevent falls or fractures in residents in
care homes and hospital inpatients and to investigate the effect of dementia and cognitive …

The majority of hospital beds in the developed nations are occupied by older people, many
of whom have been admitted because of mobility problems, falls, or injury from falls. 1 With …