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Guidelines for Management of Neurosurgical Cases during COVID-19 Pandemic

Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2020
Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection can occur to health care workers while providing treatment. It is vital to ensure the safety and to avoid any undue exposure of health care workers, leading to collapse of the entire health ...
Raj Kumar, Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, Radhe Shyam Mittal, Hanuman Prasad Prajapati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Safety of Daprodustat for the Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease Anemia: Final Analysis of a Multicenter Postmarketing Surveillance Study in Japan

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This final analysis of a multicenter, prospective postmarketing surveillance study evaluated the safety of daprodustat in patients with chronic kidney disease anemia in routine clinical practice in Japan. Methods Patients who initiated daprodustat between September 2020 and July 2022 were registered.
Tadao Akizawa, Kyomi Kanaya, Kiyomi Aizawa, Masanori Onoki, Hirofumi Ozeki, Kazuko Suzuki, Ai Hayashi, Tomohiko Asamura   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lay health worker attrition: important but often ignored.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012
Lay health workers are key to achieving universal health-care coverage, therefore measuring worker attrition and identifying its determinants should be an integral part of any lay health worker programme. Both published and unpublished research on lay health workers has largely focused on the types of interventions they can deliver effectively. This is
Lungiswa Nkonki, Julie Cliff, David Sanders   +2 more
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Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi, Pilar Samperio Ventayol, Natalie Burkard, Nicolas Schlegel, Carmen Aguilar, Sina Bartfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why do Health Workers in Rural Tanzania Prefer Public Sector Employment? [PDF]

, 2012
Severe shortages of qualified health workers and geographical imbalances in the workforce in many low-income countries require the national health sector management to closely monitor and address issues related to the distribution of health workers ...
Moland Karen Marie, Songstad Nils Gunnar, Moland, Karen Marie, Massay, Deodatus Amadeus, Karen Marie Moland, Astrid Blystad, Massay Deodatus Amadeus, Blystad Astrid, Deodatus Amadeus Massay, Songstad, Nils Gunnar, Nils Gunnar Songstad, Blystad, Astrid   +11 more
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Organoids in pediatric cancer research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
wiley   +1 more source

“They do not see us as one of them”: a qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ working relationships with healthcare workers in rural North-Central Nigeria

Human Resources for Health, 2018
Background In HIV programs, mentor mothers (MMs) are women living with HIV who provide peer support for other women to navigate HIV care, especially in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT).
Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Angela Odiachi, Miriam J. Bathnna, Chinazom N. Ekwueme, Gift Nwanne, Emilia N. Iwu, Llewellyn J. Cornelius   +6 more
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Correlation of Oral Health Education by Community Health Workers with Changes in Oral Health Practices in Migrant Populations in Washington State

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2021
Introduction An important question for oral health education is whether knowledge gained during lay-led workshops is retained and applied in daily practice.
Ileana Maria Ponce-Gonzalez, Allen D. Cheadle, Michael Leo Parchman   +2 more
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Evaluation of a Hepatitis B Lay Health Worker Intervention for Chinese Americans and Canadians [PDF]

Journal of Community Health, 2009
Hepatitis B testing is recommended for immigrants from countries where hepatitis B infection is endemic. However, only about one-half of Chinese in North America have received hepatitis B testing. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a hepatitis B lay health worker intervention for Chinese Americans/Canadians ...
Taylor, Vicky M, Hislop, T Gregory, Tu, Shin-Ping, Teh, Chong, Acorda, Elizabeth, Yip, Mei-Po, Woodall, Erica, Yasui, Yutaka   +7 more
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The planar cell polarity protein Vangl2 interacts with the PDZ‐domains of Scribble but not with a unique PDZ‐like domain in Inturned

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Structural and biochemical characterisations show that the planar cell polarity (PCP) protein Inturned harbours a unique PDZ‐like domain that does not bind canonical PDZ‐binding motifs (PBMs) like that of another PCP protein Vangl2. In contrast, the apical‐basal polarity protein Scribble contains four PDZ domains that bind Vangl2, but one PDZ domain ...
Stephan Wilmes, Jan Brysch, Carmen Gelze, Lilli Meier, Daniel Kümmel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source