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Medics on the Move South Africa: Access to Medical Words

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2013
South African medical students who are Cuban-trained and therefore Spanish- speaking, on their return to South Africa need to learn medical vocabulary, terminology, and appropriate interactional discourse in the two major languages of English and ...
Kris Van de Poel, Christine Fourie, Karen Seberechts   +2 more
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The Narrative Dimension of Medical Case Reports

Iperstoria, 2022
A medical case report is a written scientific text which describes and discusses the symptoms, signs, diagnoses, treatment and follow-up of a patient presenting with a pathological condition.
Renzo Mocini
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Evaluation of the Utility of Baseline Echocardiogram in Patients With Standard Risk Precursor B‐Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background A routine baseline echocardiogram is often obtained prior to anthracycline administration in children with cancer. The utility of baseline echocardiogram is unclear in patients with standard risk B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (SR B‐ALL) as their anthracycline cumulative dose is low.
Ziyad Alrajhi, Alice Pozza, Luc Mertens, Adam Paul Yan, Sarah Alexander   +4 more
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French medical memes: Themes, language, functions [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
The study concerns the organisation and content of both the visual and verbal elements within the polycode text of French-language memes that pertain to medical discourse.
Natalia M. Dugalich, Yulia N. Ebzeeva
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‘What’s it like to have ME?’ The discursive construction of ME in computer-mediated communication and face-to-face interaction [PDF]

, 2007
ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) is a debilitating illness for which no cause or medical tests have been identified. Debates over its nature have generated interest from qualitative researchers.
Andy McKinlay, Campion, P., Edwards, D., Edwards, D., Horton, Hutchby, I., Hutchby, I., Jennifer Guise, Royal College of Physicians, Rutter, D.R., Sharpe, M.C., Short, J., Sue Widdicombe, ten Have, P., Wessely, S., Wessely, S., Wooffitt, R., Yates, S.J.   +17 more
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Gemcitabine, Docetaxel, Melphalan, Carboplatin as Part of Sequential Cycles of High‐Dose Chemotherapy With Autologous Hematopoietic Stem‐Cell Rescue for Multiply Relapsed/Refractory Pediatric Germ Cell Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although most malignant germ cell tumors (GCTs) are highly curable with cisplatin‐based therapy, options for patients with multiply relapsed/refractory disease remain limited. For this population, we report the first pediatric use of gemcitabine, docetaxel, melphalan, and carboplatin (GemDMC) as part of sequential cycles of high‐dose ...
Maria Frost, Olayinka Okeleji, Amr Elgehiny, Douglas Harrison, Cynthia Herzog, Jeremy Connors, Demetrios Petropoulos, Priti Tewari, Dristhi Ragoonanan, Yago Nieto, Irtiza N. Sheikh   +10 more
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CPX‐351 in High‐Risk Relapsed Pediatric Acute Leukemia: Real‐World Phase 1 Data Establishing the FDA‐Approved Dose

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Outcomes for pediatric relapsed/refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remain dismal. CPX‐351, a liposomal formulation of cytarabine and daunorubicin, may have less off‐target toxicities than traditional chemotherapies and has shown improved outcomes for adults with newly diagnosed therapy‐related AML.
Jonathan D. Bender, Lauren Pommert, Lori R. Backus, Andrea Bidwell, Courtney Blank, Erin H. Breese, Karen C. Burns, Adam Lane, Lynn H. Lee, Benjamin Mizukawa, Robin E. Norris, Maureen M. O'Brien, Daniel Peck, Christine Phillips, Thomas D. Ryan, Jennifer Young, Michael Absalon, John P. Perentesis   +17 more
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The history of traditional Chinese medicine in Britain, c.1750-2018

Chinese Medicine and Culture, 2018
This paper discusses the genesis and transference of Traditional Chinese Medicine from China and Asia to Europe. It looks specifically at the ways in which TCM was initially discovered and how it reach medical circles in Europe.
Christopher Ryan Pearse Cavin
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Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe [PDF]

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2016
Medical language permeated all kinds of texts in premodern Europe, including legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings. The essays in this special issue are particularly interested in the functions of metaphor and of narrative. Many thinkers—most famously Susan Sontag—have commented on the problems inherent in
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Serious Osteonecrosis in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A CYP‐C Population‐Based Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Osteonecrosis (ON) is a debilitating complication of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) therapy. While numerous studies have explored its incidence and associated risk factors, investigations using large‐scale cohorts remain important to characterize ON across heterogeneous populations.
Noémie de Villiers, Chantal Éthier, Caroline Laverdière, Nathalie Alos, Thai Hoa Tran, Marie‐Claude Pelland‐Marcotte   +5 more
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