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Is Chronic Pain a Disease? [PDF]
Pain Medicine, 2013 The article by Cohen and colleagues ⇓ challenges the concept of persistent pain as a disease and raises some interesting points for discussion. As one of the authors of the article to which they refer ⇓, I appreciate the opportunity to make a reply. There are many points raised in their article and it is not possible to address them all in an article ...
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Central nervous system (CNS) relapse of neuroblastoma carries a poor prognosis, and craniospinal irradiation (CSI) poses substantial long‐term toxicity in young children. We report a toddler with MYCN‐amplified neuroblastoma harboring somatic ALK R1275Q who developed extensive leptomeningeal relapse with paraplegia.
Jinwoo Kim +11 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background The treatment failure and reinfection rates among syphilis patients are high, and relevant studies in China are limited. The aim of this study was to detect the rates of treatment failure and reinfection after syphilis treatment and to explore
Zhenzhou Luo +14 more
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Veterinary Pathology, 2005 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a unique transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of mule deer ( Odocoileus hemionus), white-tailed deer ( O. virginianus), and Rocky Mountain elk ( Cervus elaphus nelsoni). The natural history of CWD is incompletely understood, but it differs from scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a common condition among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) and is the leading cause of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in this population. Growing evidence suggests that social determinants of health (SDOH) influence menstrual bleeding patterns, access to care, and treatment. However, no studies have
Maria Carter‐Febres +6 more
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Zhongguo gonggong weishengObjectiveTo comprehensively assess the establishment and service provision of weight management clinics in healthcare institutions in Shenzhen city, Guangdong province, thus providing robust evidence to support the standardized and scientific development
Yan LI +6 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.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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Development of Australian chronic disease targets and indicators [PDF]
, 2015 Analyses available baseline information for chronic diseases in Australia, as a starting point for chronic disease target and indicator consideration. Introduction The Australian Health Policy Collaboration (AHPC) is facilitating development of a set ...
Penny Tolhurst, Tolhurst, Penelope
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BMJ, 2004 Insights from managed care in the United States will help the NHS Two papers in this issue of BMJ examine developments in the management of chronic illness in the United States and explore their potential relevance to recent NHS initiatives and policies.1 2 A new King's Fund study of the care of chronically ill people in five leading US managed care ...
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito +7 more
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