“Can you hear me now?”: Insurance Coverage for Hearing Benefits in the United States [PDF]
, 2015 Public and private insurance coverage for hearing benefits underscores the gaps in coverage for treating hearing loss in the U.S. The commodification of the hearing benefits sector of healthcare in this country has detrimental consequences for personal ...
Whipple, Reegan
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Health considerations for transgender women and remaining unknowns : a narrative review [PDF]
, 2019 Transgender (trans) women (TW) were assigned male at birth but have a female gender identity or gender expression. The literature on management and health outcomes of TW has grown recently with more publication of research.
Defreyne, Justine +6 more
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Association between Silicone Breast Implants and Autoimmune Diseases
Gazeta Médica, 2017 BACKGROUND AND AIM: Silicone breast implants have, for a long time, been considered as biologically inert and harmless. However the relationship between silicone breast implants and the risk of autoimmune diseases has generated intense medical interest ...
Rute Carvalho +3 more
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Form-Stable Highly Cohesive gel Breast Implants [PDF]
Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2013 Highly cohesive, form-stable cohesive gel implants were introduced in 1993. This resulted in a paradigm shift in breast augmentation surgery. With the introduction of shaped textured implants, surgeon started to think in terms of shape and dimensions ...
Youngdae Lee, Young Seok Kim, Ji Ye Kim
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Reporting Risk: The Case of Silicone Breast Implants [PDF]
, 1994 Professor Nelkin finds journalists to be, if reluctantly, subject to influence and describes their uneasy relationship with scientists in filling a difficult ...
Nelkin, Dorothy
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What lies beneath? The role of informal and hidden networks in the management of crises [PDF]
, 2014 Crisis management research traditionally focuses on the role of formal communication networks in the escalation and management of organisational crises. Here, we consider instead informal and unobservable networks.
Ackroyd S. +27 more
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Quality of life and aesthetic results after mastectomy and mammary reconstruction [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2019 Introduction: Due to the increased incidence of breast cancer, the demand for breast reconstruction has been increasing, along with concerns regarding the satisfaction and quality of life of the patients.
Marcela Caetano Cammarota +7 more
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Barnes Hospital Bulletin [PDF]
, 1989 https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/bjc_barnes_bulletin/1272/thumbnail ...
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Breast-Shape Classification and Implant Construction Method for Unilateral Breast Reconstruction
IEEE Access, 2019 Unilateral breast reconstruction is different from bilateral breast reconstruction and breast augmentation, as it requires more consideration of the symmetry between the reconstructed breast and the contralateral breast.
Liqian Wang +7 more
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Shaping the Breast in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery: An Easy Three-Step Principle. Part II - Breast Reconstruction after Total Mastectomy [PDF]
, 2009 This is Part II of four parts describing the three-step principle being applied in reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery. Part I explains how to analyze a problematic breast by understanding the main anatomical features of a breast and how they ...
Blondeel, Phillip +4 more
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