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Investigation and management of foreign body ingestion in children at a major paediatric trauma unit in South Africa

African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2015
Foreign body (FB) ingestion is a common paediatric presentation to emergency centres in South Africa (SA). There are no guidelines for the management of FB ingestion in children in SA.
C.D. Delport, P.W. Hodkinson, B. Cheema
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Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy, Michael Cummings, Eden Price, Yulin Liu, Santiago Gutierrez‐Gomez, Sarah O'Shea, Samuel Frank, Rhoda Au, Ashita S. Gurnani, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Jesse Mez, Ludy C. Shih   +11 more
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Microbial keratitis in East Africa: why are the outcomes so poor? [PDF]

, 2011
PURPOSE: Microbial keratitis (MK) is a major cause of blindness in Africa. This study reports the epidemiology, causative organism, management and outcome of MK in people admitted to a large referral hospital in Northern Tanzania, and explores why the ...
Oates, Francesca, Pithuwa, Jason, Chevallier, Caroline, Anthony B. Hall, Okello, Emily, Afwamba, Issac, Burton, Matthew J, Jason Pithuwa, Emily Okello, Matthew J. Burton, Jecinta J. Onyango, Onyango, Jecinta J, Caroline Chevallier, Issac Afwamba, Hall, Anthony B, Francesca Oates   +15 more
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Androgen-mediated maternal effects and trade-offs: postnatal hormone development, growth, and survivorship in wild meerkats

Frontiers in Endocrinology
IntroductionMammalian reproductive and somatic development is regulated by steroid hormones, growth hormone (GH), and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Based largely on information from humans, model organisms, and domesticated animals, testosterone (
Charli S. Davies, Charli S. Davies, Caroline L. Shearer, Caroline L. Shearer, Lydia K. Greene, Lydia K. Greene, Lydia K. Greene, Jessica Mitchell, Jessica Mitchell, Debbie Walsh, Debbie Walsh, Vivian C. Goerlich, Vivian C. Goerlich, Tim H. Clutton-Brock, Tim H. Clutton-Brock, Tim H. Clutton-Brock, Christine M. Drea, Christine M. Drea, Christine M. Drea, Christine M. Drea   +19 more
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Late Pliocene lakes and soils: a global data set for the analysis of climate feedbacks in a warmer world [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2014
The global distribution of late Pliocene soils and lakes has been reconstructed using a synthesis of geological data. These reconstructions are then used as boundary conditions for the Hadley Centre General Circulation Model (HadCM3) and the BIOME4 ...
M. J. Pound, J. Tindall, S. J. Pickering, A. M. Haywood, H. J. Dowsett, U. Salzmann   +5 more
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Evaluation of a Novel Electric Health Record Sidecar Application to Display Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Outcomes During Clinic Visits: Results of a Stepped‐Wedge Cluster Randomized Pragmatic Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We developed a novel electronic health record sidecar application to visualize key rheumatoid arthritis (RA) outcomes, including disease activity, physical function, and pain, via a patient‐facing graphical interface designed for use during outpatient visits (“RA PRO dashboard”).
Gabriela Schmajuk, Jing Li, Cathy Nasrallah, Cherish Wilson, Alicia Hamblin, Christine Hariz, Cammie Young, Stephen Shiboski, Emma Kersey, Mary Nakamura, Judith F. Ashouri, Mehrdad Matloubian, Andrew J. Gross, Jennifer Barton, Beth Berrean, Jonathan Prugh, Jinoos Yazdany   +16 more
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Displacement Economies in Africa : Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity

, 2014
Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or

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Bilateral spontaneous anterior lens capsule ruptures in a child: A rare presentation of Alport syndrome

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020
Purpose: This report describes the rare case of a child with bilateral spontaneous anterior lens capsule ruptures as the presenting feature of Alport syndrome. Observations: The clinical presentation, special investigations and surgical management of the
Dian Petrus van der Westhuizen, Kelsey Vernon Stuart   +1 more
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Upper‐level midlatitude troughs in boreal winter have an amplified low‐latitude linkage over Africa

Atmospheric Science Letters, 2023
In boreal winter, strong upper‐level midlatitude troughs across the Atlantic–Africa–southwestern Asia sector generate substantial tropical–extratropical interaction and have become recognized as important factors in some extreme weather events.
Neil Ward, Andreas H. Fink, Richard J. Keane, Douglas J. Parker   +3 more
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Retractions in Rheumatology: Trends, Causes, and Implications for Research Integrity

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to describe the trends and main reasons for study retraction in rheumatology literature. Methods We reviewed the Retraction Watch database to identify retracted articles in rheumatology. We recorded the main study characteristics, authors’ countries, reasons for retraction, time from publication to retraction, and trends over time ...
Anna Maria Vettori, Michele Iudici
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