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COVID-19 negatively affected pancreatic cancer care by reducing surgical resections and pre-diagnostic testing with BMI and HbA1c, and it also negatively affected the quality of data for research.

There was substantial change in primary care activity following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2019 as indicated by key measures reflective of clinical activity in general practice but service was largely restored by April 2021.

Decline in cervical cancer screening and challenges faced by healthcare professionals and patients when the pandemic was declared emphasize the importance of implementing human papillomavirus (HPV) primary screening, HPV self-sampling, and telemedicine to continue cervical cancer screening and care.

Shifting from girls-only to gender-neutral HPV vaccination strategy improves the resilience of cervical cancer prevention and enhances progress towards cervical cancer elimination.

While recognizing study design limitations, the lack of association between household close range proximity events and SARS-CoV-2 transmission, suggests that aerosol transmission may play a larger role than droplet transmission in the household.

Among European children, shorter telomere length and older DNA methylation age relative to chronological age were associated with poorer behaviors, while older age, as predicted by a novel immunometabolic clock relative to chronological age, was associated with greater cognitive maturity.

Mailed at-home HPV self-sampling kits present an opportunity to reduce important barriers to cervical cancer screening among women in a safety net healthcare system.

Contact tracing data reveal how a One Health approach underpinned by dog vaccination interrupts rabies transmission in reservoir populations removing the risk to humans, while virus genome data highlight the importance of surveillance and sustained dog vaccination in connected populations.

Using unique data from five longitudinal UK birth cohorts, four distinct subsets of genetic variants were identified as differentially associated across wheezing phenotypes from infancy to adolescence with little evidence of genetic associations spanning across different phenotypes.

Analyses of longitudinal neuroimaging data highlight the importance of social contact for brain health.