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HEARTS in the Americas: innovations for improving hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk management in primary care

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
Global Hearts is the flagship initiative of the World Health Organization to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death and disability worldwide.
Pedro Ordunez, Norm R.C. Campbell, Gloria P. Giraldo Arcila, Sonia Y. Angell, Cintia Lombardi, Jeffrey W. Brettler, Yenny A. Rodriguez Morales, Kenneth L. Connell, Angelo Gamarra, Donald J. DiPette, Andres Rosende, Marc G. Jaffe, Libardo Rodriguez, Daniel J. Piñeiro, Ramon Martinez, James E. Sharman   +15 more
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Evaluating progress and addressing actions to eliminate industrially produced trans-fatty acids in the Americas

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022
Objective. To evaluate the progress toward the 2023 target for the elimination of industrially produced transfatty acids (IP-TFA) in the Region of the Americas and to highlight the achievements of the four strategic lines of action from the Plan of ...
Sofía Rincón-Gallardo Patiño, Steven Constantinou, Carmen Gorlick, Fabio da Silva Gomes   +3 more
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

National policy actions on dementia in the Americas and Asia-Pacific: Consensus and challenges

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) affect over 50 million persons globally, and the number is expected to rise. In response, health ministries are developing and implementing policies and programs to systemically address the needs of ...
Fei Sun, Emmanuel Chima, Tracy Wharton, Vijeth Iyengar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preparedness for the emerging risk of yellow fever in the Americas

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Yellow fever is a viral zoonosis of variable geographic distribution in the Americas. With no specific treatment for this vector-borne disease, vaccination is the best prevention available.
Helena J. Chapman, Bienvenido A. Veras-Estévez, Elena G. Chicaiza-Mora, Concepción Zúniga Valeriano, Reyna M. Durón†   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

America, America!

CHIMIA, 2008
This account was written during a four-month stay in Berkeley from May to August 2007. It was partly inspired by a diary published by Simone de Beauvoir after her four-month lecture tour to the US in 1947. We could not resist the temptation of writing a few pages about our impressions.
Molinie, Antoinette, Bodenhausen, Geoffrey   +1 more
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Comparative Drug Response Profiling in Neuroblastoma Cell Lines and Patient‐Derived Tumor Organoids

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT High‐risk neuroblastoma remains a leading cause of pediatric cancer mortality, and improved preclinical models are needed to guide therapeutic developments. We screened seven high‐risk neuroblastoma cell lines and three patient‐derived tumor organoids with 528 compounds alongside bone marrow controls, and compared them with external datasets ...
Krzysztof Wierbiłowicz, Se Whee Sammy Park, Aironas Los, Ernest Liu, Nona Struyf, Tom Erkers, Sören Lehmann, Jan J. Molenaar, Jakob Stenman, Olli Kallioniemi, Päivi Östling, Brinton Seashore‐Ludlow, Kasper Karlsson   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani, Rachel K. Peterson, Avani D. Rao, Laurie J. McKenzie, Ahmed Magdy Elmotayam, Leslie Chang, Michael Roth, Susan L. McGovern   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalisation, regionalisation & the Americas. The free trade area of the Americas: fuelling the 'race to the bottom'? [PDF]

, 2005
The framing of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) over a period of ten years is a project on a unique scale and with a unique significance. According to Robert Devlin, the FTAA is undoubtedly the most ambitious collective economic initiative in ...
MacLeod, A. (Alexander)
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