Results 31 to 40 of about 12,375,897 (253)

Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Daniel J. Indelicato, Jeanette Parkes, Natia Esiashvili, Josué Hernández Benítez, Miriam Mikhail‐Lette, Olivera Cirajc Bjelac, Daniel Berger, Eva Ciurana, Yavuz Anacak, Lisbeth Cordero‐Mendez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imaginative Medicine: Thinking Creatively about Poetry, Illness, and Pain

Latin American Literary Review, 2021
This essay examines poems from the books Via Corporis by Mexican poet Pura López-Colomé (1952-) and Harm by U.S. poet Hillary Gravendyk (1979-2014), which offer two different contemporary examples of lyric poetry’s engagement with pain and illness.
Jill S Kuhnheim
doaj   +1 more source

Neuropsychological and Educational Outcomes in Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome—A Report From the North American Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome Registry

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Shwachman–Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare autosomal recessive ribosomopathy characterized by bone marrow failure and multisystem involvement, with emerging evidence of associated neurocognitive impairment. Methods We conducted a retrospective study of 240 individuals with biallelic Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome (SBDS) mutations
Jane Koo, Melissa Gerstle, Leah Cheng, Richard Cooper, Katherine Coyne, Claire Dusa, Naomi E. Joffe, Diana Schwarz, Sarah Steltz, Akiko Shimamura, Kasiani C. Myers, Thea Quinton   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The stomachache

Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2021
This is a story about a person who gets plenty of advice from neighbours/relatives/friends to 'cure' his stomacheache. Going to a hospital is difficult and expensive. He wants relief from symptoms, not a cure.
Sheela Jaywant
doaj  

Referral Practices and Utilisation of Paediatric Oncology Physiotherapy Services in Ghana: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Physical rehabilitation is highly recognised in improving the quality of life of cancer survivors through prehabilitation, sequelae management and palliative care, yet its integration into routine care in Ghana has not been characterised, leading to potential gaps in service access.
Dorothy Ekua Adjabu, Philip Junior Nyarko, Precious Madzimbe, Kofi Adesi Kyei, Tawagidu Mohammed, Sandra Banini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Medical Humanities Council: A Model for Medical Student-Led Advancement of the Health Humanities

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
This paper describes the Medical Humanities Council (MHC), a student-led initiative to promote the health humanities at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Joshua Anil, Phoebe Cunningham, Amanda Swain, Horace M. DeLisser   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implications of music in modern medicine

Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2021
Though rarely a stand-alone treatment, music’s ability as an adjunct to standard treatment in increasing the quality of life has been acknowledged for decades.
Tara Rajendran
doaj  

Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives

Health Expectations, 2022
Background Healthcare is witnessing a new disease with the emergence of Long Covid; a condition which can result in myriad symptoms, varying in frequency and severity.
Mark Pearson, Prerna Singh, Heike Bartel, Paul Crawford, Gail Allsopp   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Home for Age Studies?

Age, Culture, Humanities, 2023
Age studies, particularly within the United States, is academically “homeless.” You cannot get a degree in age studies; you will not find departments of age or aging studies with strong humanities representation; and you will not find job listings ...
Erin Lamb
doaj   +1 more source

A literature review in digital humanities computing [PDF]

, 2007
The research start from the necessity to define with clarity what is digital humanities considering that digital humanities comprise the study of what happens when computers are as a means of solving humanist’s information problems.
Rinnovati, Laura
core   +1 more source