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Cataract Blindness: Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Treatment Barriers and High Blindness Rates for Women in Rural Regions of Andhra Pradesh [PDF]
, 2018 Despite efforts of Vision 2020 in India, the 2001 Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study (APEDS) extrapolated that approximately 18.7 million blind people resided in India and projected an increase to 31.6 million blind people by 2020.
Kaur, Kiranpreet
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker +14 more
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Are Some Deaths Worse Than Others? The Effect of 'Labelling' on People's Perceptions [PDF]
This paper sets out to explore the extent to which perceptions regarding the 'badness' of different types of deaths differ according to how those deaths are 'labelled' in the elicitation procedure. In particular, we are interested in whether responses to
Angela Robinson +3 more
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Aiming Higher: Results From a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 Ranks states on thirty-eight indicators of healthcare access, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives.
Cathy Schoen +4 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study reports the development of antibacterial ceramic scaffolds derived from natural bovine bone. The bones were processed through sequential boiling and hydrogen peroxide treatment to remove organic matter, producing porous, mineral‐rich scaffolds.
Mohamad Hassan Taherian +6 more
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BMC Public HealthBackground Disparities in avoidable mortality have never been evaluated in Italy at the national level. The present study aimed to assess the association between socioeconomic status and avoidable mortality.
Alessio Petrelli +5 more
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Public Health Versus Court-Sponsored Secrecy [PDF]
, 2006 Public health practice relies on access to information. Givelber and Robbins discuss the debate about court-sponsored secrecy: Whether or not courts should tolerate, edorse, or protect secrecy when the sequestered information might help protect the ...
Givelber, Daniel J., Robbins, Anthony
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study reports a microfluidic device with a functionalized surface utilizing a polyoxazoline coating and covalently immobilized gold nanoparticles and anti‐phosphatidylserine antibody. The device efficiently eliminates pre‐apoptotic and apoptotic spermatozoa and yields sperm with substantially improved quality and low DNA damage, offering a simple ...
Soraya Rasi Ghaemi +5 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study introduces VIVID (Vesicle In Vivo Identification using DNA), a qPCR‐based platform that tracks PCR‐amplifiable DNA tags loaded in the EVs for accurate and quantifiable EV biodistribution in vivo. ABSTRACT Extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent promising carriers for nucleic acid therapeutics, offering advantages over synthetic nanoparticles ...
Oscar Boyadjian +5 more
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Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to identify selected forces of the decrease in the number of avoidable deaths from ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004.
Ansgar Wübker, Christoph Schwierz
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