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E arly on Saturday morning, as Paul Crane, a trader at London's renowned Borough market, was arranging blood oranges from Valencia on his stall, he admitted that his industry is facing some of the toughest conditions in a quarter of a century. The wholesale price of tomatoes, peppers and aubergines has quadrupled, and English cauliflowers are up too. Some stallholders are not even selling vine tomatoes because they are just too expensive. "There are supply chain issues, as in there isn't enough to go round. It's all to do with price," said Crane, who has worked in the south London market for more than 35 years. "It's been like it for six or seven weeks. All prices across the board have risen." While supermarkets face problems because growers cannot fulfil their contracts, greengrocers are better placed, said Crane, who had arrived at New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms, south London, at 3am to buy his stock. As news of fresh goods shortages spread ...

To our knowledge, this is the first study to retrospectively review BMI courses at five timepoints (at the beginning of treatment and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after treatment) in outpatients with AN receiving different medications. In our study, patients who adhered to their antidepressant or antipsychotic medication regimens had a significant BMI increase in the 6-month follow-up, compared with patients who switched medication, used combined medication or did not use medication. These findings suggest that medication adherence to a single medication may play a key role in improving BMI in both the antidepressant and antipsychotic groups. Our study highlights the importance of medication adherence, and the essential role of pharmacotherapy in the treatment of AN. The contributions of this study are further elaborated in the following sections. First, based on the results of our study, it seems that medication adherence is more important than the specific medication in the tre...

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Abstract Influenza B virus (IBV) strains are one of the components of seasonal influenza vaccines in both trivalent and quadrivalent formulations. The vast majority of these vaccines are produced in embryonated chickens' eggs. While optimized backbones for vaccine production in eggs exist and are in use for influenza A viruses, no such backbones exist for IBVs, resulting in unpredictable production yields. To generate an optimal vaccine seed virus backbone, we have compiled a panel of 71 IBV strains from 1940 to present day, representing the known temporal and genetic variability of IBV circulating in humans. This panel contains strains from the B/Victoria/2/87-like lineage, B/Yamagata/16/88-like lineage and the ancestral lineage that preceded their split to provide a diverse set that would help to identify a suitable backbone which can be used in combination with hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) glycoproteins from any IBV strain to be incorporated into the seasonal vaccin...