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

Pediatric 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, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Mary Fewtrell, Julie Lanigan, Breeana Gardiner, Graeme O'Connor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness of chikungunya vaccination with the live attenuated vaccine in U.S. territories

npj Vaccines
A live attenuated chikungunya vaccine, IXCHIQ, was approved in the United States in 2023 for use in adults. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of two different vaccination strategies, routine and outbreak vaccination, for persons aged ≥18 years living in
Kelly Kilburn, Martin I. Meltzer, Seonghye Jeon, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Nicole Lindsey, Susan L. Hills, J. Erin Staples   +6 more
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First detection and genetic characterization of canine Kobuvirus in domestic dogs in Thailand

BMC Veterinary Research, 2019
Background Canine Kobuvirus (CaKoV) has been detected both in healthy and diarrheic dogs and in asymptomatic wild carnivores. In this study, we conducted a survey of CaKoV at small animal hospitals in Bangkok and vicinity of Thailand during September ...
Kamonpan Charoenkul, Taveesak Janetanakit, Supassama Chaiyawong, Napawan Bunpapong, Supanat Boonyapisitsopa, Ratanaporn Tangwangvivat, Alongkorn Amonsin   +6 more
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The Emerging Role of Ten-Eleven Translocation 1 in Epigenetic Responses to Environmental Exposures. [PDF]

, 2020
Mounting evidence from epidemiological studies and animal models has linked exposures to environmental factors to changes in epigenetic markers, especially in DNA methylation.
Brown, Anthony P, Ji, Hong, Zhu, Tao
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Biomedical Research, A Tool to Address the Health Issues that Affect African Populations. [PDF]

, 2013
Traditionally, biomedical research endeavors in low to middle resources countries have focused on communicable diseases. However, data collected over the past 20 years by the World Health Organization (WHO) show a significant increase in the number of ...
Peprah, Emmanuel, Wonkam, Ambroise
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Screening the Global Health Priority Box against Plasmodium berghei liver stage parasites using an inexpensive luciferase detection protocol

Malaria Journal
Background Malaria, a disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, continues to impact many regions globally. The rise in resistance to artemisinin-based anti-malarial drugs highlights the need for new treatments. Ideally, new anti-malarials will
Gia-Bao Nguyen, Caitlin A. Cooper, Olivia McWhorter, Ritu Sharma, Anne Elliot, Anthony Ruberto, Rafael Freitas, Ashutosh K. Pathak, Dennis E. Kyle, Steven P. Maher   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating socio-eco-epidemiological approaches into health research [PDF]

, 2012
Sixty percent of emerging infectious diseases events are zoonotic and among those, 72% are caused by pathogens of wildlife origin. The distribution and intensity of most animal and zoonotic diseases have changed in recent years in response to ...
Gaidet, Nicolas, Molia, Sophie
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Emerging Tick-Borne Diseases [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2020
Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick populations and to detect and treat infections caused by the pathogens that they transmit. This review covers tick-borne infectious diseases of nonrickettsial bacterial,
Susan, Madison-Antenucci, Laura D, Kramer, Linda L, Gebhardt, Elizabeth, Kauffman   +3 more
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source