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Harm Reduction JournalBackground Pharmacies are critical healthcare partners in community efforts to eliminate bloodborne illnesses. Pharmacy sale of sterile syringes is central to this effort.
Danielle M. Russell +11 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2019 Background The HIV epidemic in Georgia is increasing. Data shows that compared to previous years, Georgia has increasingly more HIV-infected individuals than previous assessments. Select client groups remain hard to reach by harm reduction programs.
M. Gogia +4 more
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From the Mountaintops: What the World Can Learn from Drug Policy Change in Switzerland [PDF]
, 2010 Reviews Switzerland's drug policy of policing, prevention, treatment, and harm reduction, including low-threshold methadone programs, needle exchanges, and safe injection rooms.
Csete, Joanne
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Rapid Response to Trametinib Combined With Chemotherapy for Infant BRAF‐Fused Chiasmatic Glioma
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Infants, less than 1 year, with chiasmatic gliomas (ICG) present a major therapeutic challenge due to large tumor size, decreased vision, rapid progression, and poor response to vincristine/carboplatin chemotherapy. The majority have a BRAF fusion, which may respond to downstream MEK inhibitors but response time is slow. There are no safety or
Helen Toledano +7 more
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Values and preferences for hepatitis C self-testing among people who inject drugs in Kyrgyzstan
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs (PWID) continues to be a major public-health burden in this highly stigmatised population. To halt transmission of HCV, rapid HCV self-testing kits represent an innovative
Guillermo Z. Martínez-Pérez +5 more
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Review of local alcohol harm reduction strategies in Cheshire and Merseyside [PDF]
, 2008 This report reviews local alcohol strategies in Cheshire and Merseyside.ChaMPs Public Health ...
Bridgman, Stephen +3 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is a common complication in patients receiving maintenance dialysis, driven by calcium and phosphate metabolism disturbances. Calcimimetics are central to the management of SHPT by enhancing calcium‐sensing receptor sensitivity and reducing parathyroid hormone secretion.
Fumihiko Koiwa +3 more
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TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION INVOLVES MORE THAN CIGARETTE HARM REDUCTION
American Journal of Public Health, 2004 I contributed to the Institute of Medicine report Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction,1 and I am writing to correct misrepresentations made about it in 2 recent articles in the Journal.2,3 The articles suggest that the report signals a rebirth of “safer cigarettes”2 and that it was primarily about cigarette harm ...
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Adult‐onset Still's disease (AOSD) complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) carries substantial mortality. The role of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) remains uncertain. Methods We retrospectively analyzed patients with AOSD‐MAS treated with TPE at a single‐center.
Masataka Ueda +15 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at risk for HIV and opioid overdose. We piloted PARTNER UP, a telemedicine-based program to provide PWID with access to both oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention and medication for opioid ...
Amy Corneli +11 more
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