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Real‐World Performance of CSF Kappa Free Light Chains in the 2024 McDonald Criteria

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Kappa free light chains (KFLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a similar performance to CSF‐restricted oligoclonal bands (OCB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. To help with implementation, we set out to resolve several remaining uncertainties: (1) performance in a real‐world cohort and the 2024 McDonald criteria; (2 ...
Maya M. Leibowitz, Ryan Cooper, Stefania Kaninia, Kathryn I. Challis, Will Greenway, Maria Bonello, Mahmoud Elbahnasawi, Deborah T. Shode, Dominika Gajdasik, Victor Iliev, Alison M. E. Whitelegg, Ian Galea   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Household health expenditure does not improve people’s subjective well-being in China

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionHousehold health expenditure plays a crucial role in the daily spending of individuals. Meanwhile, the attention of the public to subjective well-being (SWB) is constantly increasing in China.
Weiwei Wang, Yan Sun, Gen Li, Yingde Tang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

GENDER INEQUALITY IN HOUSEHOLD HEALTH EXPENDITURE: THE CASE OF URBAN ORISSA [PDF]

Biologically determined sex and socially constructed gender have strong bearing on the household out-of-pocket health expenditure. In this connection, the present makes an modest attempt to study the gender inequalities in household health expenditure in
Himanshu Sekhar, Rout
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Examining inequities in incidence of catastrophic health expenditures on different healthcare services and health facilities in Nigeria. [PDF]

, 2012
OBJECTIVE: There is limited evidence about levels of socio-economic and other differences in catastrophic health spending in Nigeria and in many sub-Saharan African countries.
Hanson, Kara, Onwujekwe, Obinna, Uzochukwu, Benjamin   +2 more
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
wiley   +1 more source

Aging society, health and the environment [PDF]

Both environmental quality and health care expenditure are determinants of health and life expectancy, but the support for them appears to be different according to the electors' age, with a relatively larger support for health expenditure among the ...
Balestra, Carlotta, DOTTORI, Davide
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Complementarity of Long‐Reads and Optical Mapping in Parkinson's Disease for Structural Variants

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Long‐read sequencing and optical genome mapping technologies have the ability to detect large and complex structural variants. This has led to the discovery of novel pathogenic variants in neurodegenerative movement disorders. Thus, we aimed to systematically compare the SV detection capabilities of OGM and ONT in Parkinson's disease.
André Fienemann, Theresa Lüth, Susen Schaake, Carolin Gabbert, Marius Möller, Hauke Busch, Katja Lohmann, Jonas A. Gustafson, Danny E. Miller, Kensuke Daida, Manabu Funayama, Nobutaka Hattori, Samia Ben Sassi, Faycel Hentati, Matthew J. Farrer, Kristian K. Ullrich, Christine Klein, Joanne Trinh   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Working Paper 120 - Community Based Health Insurance Schemes in Africa: The Case of Rwanda [PDF]

Community-based health insurance schemes (Mutuelles) in Rwanda are one of the largest experiments in community based risk-sharing mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa for health related problems.
Shimeles Abebe
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Health and Household Expenditures

, 2018
We examine the effect of health on household expenditures in the Netherlandsbetween 2009 and 2017, a period that is characterized by significant increases in out-of-pocket medical expenditures for long-term care. How health affects household spending is an empirical question: on the one hand, health can affect a household’s budget through increased out-
Ooijen, R. van, Bresser, J. de, Knoef, M.G.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

​Did a Non‐Medical Biosimilar Switching Policy Cause an Increase in Non‐Biologic/Biosimilar Health Care Resource Utilization or Cost in Patients With Inflammatory Arthritis?

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a series of policies that mandated switching patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) from an originator biologic to a biosimilar in British Columbia, Canada, on health care resource use and cost.
HaoHung Dang, Sandra Blitz, Nick Bansback, Michael Law, Mark Harrison   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source