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Cinemanography: fusing manometric and cinematographic data to facilitate diagnostics of dysphagia

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2020
Dysphagia, the difficulty in swallowing, is one of the most common and, at the same time, most heterogeneous symptom of the upper digestive tract. Due to its lifetime prevalence of about 5%, every 19th person is affected on average, especially with ...
Jell Alissa, Bernhard Lukas, Shah Dhaval, Feußner Hubertus   +3 more
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Budgeting for a billion: applying health technology assessment (HTA) for universal health coverage in India

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2018
Background India recently launched the largest universal health coverage scheme in the world to address the gaps in providing healthcare to its population.
Saudamini Vishwanath Dabak, Songyot Pilasant, Abha Mehndiratta, Laura Emily Downey, Francoise Cluzeau, Kalipso Chalkidou, Alia Cynthia Gonzales Luz, Sitaporn Youngkong, Yot Teerawattananon   +8 more
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Parental-group interventions for parents of children with mental health problems admitted in a tertiary care center: An experience from India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2020
Background: Families play a critical role in their children's development and learning. Parents' understanding of their child's illness has a significant impact on the parent–child relationship and helps them to have realistic expectations.
N Janardhana, B Manjula
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The oncological relevance of fragile sites in cancer

Communications Biology, 2021
In this Perspective, Simpson, Pye, and Whitaker discuss recent research identifying structural genomic variants in human cancers with a particular focus on deletions and duplications at genomic fragile sites.
Benjamin S. Simpson, Hayley Pye, Hayley C. Whitaker   +2 more
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A Predictive Model of the Start of Annual Influenza Epidemics

Microorganisms
Influenza is a respiratory disease that causes annual epidemics during cold seasons. These epidemics increase pressure on healthcare systems, sometimes provoking their collapse. For this reason, a tool is needed to predict when an influenza epidemic will
Elisabet Castro Blanco, Maria Rosa Dalmau Llorca, Carina Aguilar Martín, Noèlia Carrasco-Querol, Alessandra Queiroga Gonçalves, Zojaina Hernández Rojas, Ermengol Coma, José Fernández-Sáez   +7 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks, Molly Sonenklar, Cerelia Donald, Cecelia Valrie, Wally Smith, India Sisler   +5 more
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Effectiveness of a culturally tailored HIV intervention in promoting PrEP among black women who use drugs in community supervision programs in New York City: a randomized clinical trial

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Background In the U.S. there are significant racial and gender disparities in the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Black Americans represented 14% of PrEP users in 2022, but accounted for 42% of new HIV diagnoses in 2021 and in the South, Black
Dawn Goddard-Eckrich, Tara McCrimmon, Keosha Bond, Mingway Chang, Timothy Hunt, Jennifer Hall, Mary Russo, Vineha Ramesh, Karen A. Johnson, Dget L. Downey, Elwin Wu, Nabila El-Bassel, Louisa Gilbert   +12 more
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The Combined Effect of Obesity and Contraceptive Use on Pulmonary Embolism in Adolescent Females Residing in the United States

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Combined oral contraceptive (COC) use in obese adult women dramatically increases the relative risk of developing a pulmonary embolism (PE). The risk of a PE in obese adolescent females taking contraceptives is currently unknown. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of body mass index (BMI) and contraceptive
John Puetz, Joanne Salas
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In the Groove: An Evaluation to Explore a Joint Music Therapy and Occupational Therapy Intervention for Children with Acquired Brain Injury

Voices, 2016
An acquired brain injury in children disrupts brain development and neural pathways, which may have serious implications on occupational role performance. Assessment and management of children with neurological disorders is complex and treatment requires
Karen Twyford, Samantha Watters
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