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Survival for Children Diagnosed With Wilms Tumour (2012–2022) Registered in the UK and Ireland Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of Childhood (IMPORT) Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga   +56 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nurses’ monitoring of the Road to Health Chart at primary healthcare level in Makhado, Limpopo province

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2013
Background: The Road to Health Chart (RTHC) is a record chart carried by the caregiver that combines essential information on the growth monitoring of a child, immunisation, vitamin A supplementation, deworming medicine and other illnesses.
G. Kitenge, I. Govender
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing Inequity to Achieve the Maternal and Child Health Millennium Development Goals: Looking Beyond Averages. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Inequity in access to and use of child and maternal health interventions is impeding progress towards the maternal and child health Millennium Development Goals.
A Amouzou   +36 more
core   +4 more sources

The MedSupport Multilevel Intervention to Enhance Support for Pediatric Medication Adherence: Development and Feasibility Testing

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validation of verbal autopsy methods for assessment of child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and the policy implication: a rapid review

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2019
Reliable data on the cause of child death is the cornerstones for evidence informed health policy making towards improving child health outcomes. Unfortunately, accurate data on cause of death is essentially lacking in most countries of sub-Saharan ...
Chigozie Jesse Uneke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal variation and etiologic inferences of childhood pneumonia and diarrhea mortality in India

open access: yeseLife, 2019
Control of pneumonia and diarrhea mortality in India requires understanding of their etiologies. We combined time series analysis of seasonality, climate region, and clinical syndromes from 243,000 verbal autopsies in the nationally representative ...
Daniel S Farrar   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy Enables Targeted Therapy Without Tissue Diagnosis in Pediatric Low‐Grade Gliomas With BRAF V600E Mutation

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present two pediatric cases of pediatric low‐grade gliomas (PLGG) with BRAF V600E mutations diagnosed and monitored using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) liquid biopsy analyzed via digital droplet PCR (ddPCR), without tissue biopsy. Both patients were treated with dabrafenib and trametinib and monitored through clinical assessments, magnetic ...
Hannah Sultan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do epidemics induce behavioral changes? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper develops a theory of optimal fertility behavior under mortality shocks. In a 3- periods OLG model, young adults determine their optimal fertility, labor supply and life-cycle consumption with both exogenous child and adult mortality risks. For
BOUCEKKINE, Raouf   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

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