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COVID-19: underpowered randomised trials, or no randomised trials?
A recently published trial of face mask use to protect against COVID-19 demonstrated a key barrier to carrying out randomised trials in public health: the need for unattainably large sample sizes.
Atle Fretheim
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ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye +33 more
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ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida +6 more
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Choices and Challenges 2020: Technology & Disability: Counternarratives
The Choices and Challenges Forum brochure includes a schedule of events held March 27, 2020, at the Inn at Virginia Tech. Popular culture often depicts disabled people as the recipients of technology - or people who should be hopeful for such ...
Choices and Challenges
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Stress transiently affects pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer
Stress bias decision-making processes by favoring the shift to habits as a result of changes in corticostriatal circuits. Given that these same circuits are implicated in action control and outcome encoding implicated in adaptive responses we herein ...
Pedro eMorgado +7 more
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ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients frequently suffer from frailty, characterized by reduced physical function and poor prognosis. Myokines, such as myonectin, secreted by muscle, are emerging regulators of systemic health. This study investigated the relationship between serum myonectin, adipokines (adiponectin, omentin), and ...
Kenichi Kono +7 more
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The Genie and the Genome: The Human Genome Project. Air Date of April 9, 1992. Part 2 of 2 (1992)
"Choices and Challenges" Forum held on April 9, 1992 at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg ...
Producer: Choices and Challenges Project, Virginia Tech
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ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo +5 more
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Informed Health Choices Newsletter 2022
A summary of the development, evaluation and adaptation of IHC resources across more than 20 countries from the last ...
The Informed Health Choices Group +1 more
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