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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

J itegemee (rely on yourself): a multi-phase process of co-creating a personal savings intervention with female sex workers in western Kenya to reduce their HIV risk

BMC Public Health
Background HIV prevalence among female sex workers (FSW) is significantly higher than among women in the general population. Studies have shown that FSW engage in unprotected sex which provides higher compensation when they face emergency situations.
Kawango Agot, Jacob Onyango, Marylyn Ochillo, Timothy Omondi Okello, Shantana Carol, Tobias Odwar, Jane Moraa, Sophie Otticha, Redempter Odeny, Nicky Okeyo, Linet Ochieng, Gerald Ochieng, Ivy Wango, Alloys Koloo, Jacinta Badia, Carol S. Camlin, Bernard Ayieko, Sue Napierala, Harsha Thirumurthy   +18 more
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A new frontier in treatment of advanced melanoma: Redefining clinical management in the era of immune checkpoint inhibitors

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized treatment of advanced cutaneous melanoma. This group of novel therapeutic agents differs from other systemic treatments and has necessitated a new approach for several fundamental aspects of clinical ...
Oren Levine, Tahira Devji, Feng Xie
doaj   +1 more source

Inequalities in oral health: The economic burden of dental caries

International Dental Journal, 2023
Aim or Purpose: This study aimed to: determine the lifetime costs of preventing and managing of dental caries in five countries (Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, UK), and assess the impact on these costs from levelling up prevention and management ...
Dr Gerard Dunleavy, Prof Moritz Kebschull, Prof Nigel Pitts, Prof Iain Chapple, Neeladri Verma, Shivangi Jain, Joao Hofmeister, Kati Chilikova, Rob Cook, Prof Nicola West   +9 more
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Retrospective Analysis of Donor Lymphocyte Infusions in Pediatric Patients With Mixed Chimerism After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is an essential therapy for several malignant and nonmalignant diseases, but relapse and graft loss remain the principal threats to its success. Routine monitoring of chimerism and minimal residual disease (MRD) enables early detection of imminent recurrence and guides ...
Carmen Junk, Sebastian Michaelis, Michaela Döring, Thomas Eichholz, Ursula Holzer, Martin Ebinger, Tim Flaadt, Rupert Handgretinger, Peter Lang, Jan Frederic Weller, Markus Mezger   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Childhood Cancer Survival: A Population‐Based Assessment of Survival Patterns Between 2015 and 2023 in Germany

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Numerous international studies have reported declines in new cancer diagnoses, delayed diagnoses and disruptions in cancer treatment following the implementation of COVID‐19 pandemic public health measures, raising concerns that these effects may ultimately contribute to increased cancer mortality.
Friederike Erdmann, Maike Wellbrock, Javier Louro, Arndt Borkhardt, Martin Schrappe, Claudia Trübenbach, Desiree Grabow, Cécile M. Ronckers, Joachim Schüz   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Power of Advocacy: Advancing Vision for Everyone to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals

International Journal of Public Health, 2022
Advocacy is instrumental to achieving significant policy change for vision. Global advocacy efforts over the past decades enabled recognition of vision as a major public health, human rights, and development issue.
Eva Lazuka-Nicoulaud, Kovin Naidoo, Kristan Gross, Judith Marcano Williams, Andrea Kirsten-Coleman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Referral Patterns and Diagnostic Timeliness in Pediatric Cancer: A Hospital‐Based Study in Indonesia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Timely diagnosis and treatment are critical for improving survival among children with cancer. In low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), delays are common and may be influenced by fragmented referral pathways and diagnostic limitations.
Nur Melani Sari, Regina Hadi Putri, Fatimah Assyifa, Judith Spijkerman, Gertjan Johannes Kaspers, Susi Susanah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Appraising the Impact of Legume Research [PDF]

, 2023
This Impact Brief (No 44) is based on the Legumes Synthesis Report (http://impact.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Legumes_Pachico-2014.pdf) that documents the most important cases of farmers adopting new varieties, and the economic, social and ...
CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment
core   +1 more source

Medication-related suicide plans in children and adolescents: findings from crisis conversations

Injury Epidemiology
Objectives To identify medications frequently mentioned in suicide plans by texters at a crisis intervention service, and to evaluate age differences. Methods We developed a natural language processing pipeline to extract medications mentioned in suicide
Ignacio J. Tripodi, Greg Buda, Margaret Meagher, Elizabeth A. Olson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source