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Bamboo Medical Application: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review presents a structured classification of bamboo's current use in healthcare. It organizes applications into medical textiles and medical devices, with further divisions based on function and level of invasiveness. It also examines material utilization based on bamboo's structural role, highlighting how it supports both protective and ...
Haymanot Beza Lamesgin, Koosje van der Stoel, Vera Popovich, Paul Breedveld   +3 more
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Locoregional Prostate Cancer Treatment Pattern Variation in Independent Cancer Centers: Policy Effect, Patient Preference, or Physician Incentive?

Health Services Insights, 2015
Surveillance, Epidemiologic, and End Results (SEER) registry data abstracted from a priority 2 or higher reporting source from 2006 to 2008 were used to compare treatment patterns in 45–64-year old men diagnosed with locoregional prostate cancer (LRPC ...
Andrew S. Camarata, Dana C. Nickleach, Ashesh B. Jani, Peter J. Rossi   +3 more
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The readiness of addiction treatment agencies for health care reform

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2012
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) aims to provide affordable health insurance and expanded health care coverage for some 32 million Americans. The PPACA makes provisions for using technology, evidence-based treatments, and integrated,
Molfenter Todd, Capoccia Victor A, Boyle Michael G, Sherbeck Carol K   +3 more
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An Engine of Change? The Affordable Care Act and the Shifting Politics of Demonstration Projects

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) made a number of institutional investments intended to expand the federal government’s ability to scale successful demonstration projects into national policy.
Philip Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly
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How Will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 Affect Young Adults? [PDF]

, 2010
Summarizes how healthcare reform provisions including the expansion of dependent coverage, subsidies for insurance premiums, and penalties for opting out of coverage will affect young adults ages 19-29 by income level and ...
Genevieve M. Kenney, Jennifer E. Pelletier, Linda J. Blumberg   +2 more
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Nine years of comparative effectiveness research education and training: initiative supported by the PhRMA Foundation [PDF]

, 2018
The term comparative effectiveness research (CER) took center stage with passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009). The companion US$1.1 billion in funding prompted the launch of initiatives to train the scientific workforce capable of
Brixner, Diana I, Cannon, Eileen, Devine, Emily Beth, Gagnon, Jean Paul, Garrison, Louis P, Murray, Michael D, Perfetto, Eleanor, Pickard, A Simon, Schumock, Glen T, Segal, Jodi B   +9 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Health Care Coverage: Job Lock and the Potential Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PDF]

, 2011
[Excerpt] The majority of Americans—about 55 percent in 2010—rely on employer-sponsored health care coverage, which is largely subsidized by most employers and thus less costly to employees than coverage purchased by individuals on their own.
United States Government Accountability Office
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Halofuginone is a Molecular Glue Degrader of Integrin β4

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Integrin β4 overexpression is linked to aggressive tumors and poor prognosis, but targeted therapies are lacking. We identified halofuginone (HF) as a molecular glue degrader that promotes integrin β4 degradation via the CRL4BWDR18 E3 ligase. HF suppresses tumor progression in vitro and in vivo, offering a new strategy for targeting oncogenic ...
Wei Gong, Di Yang, Junrui Tian, Yufei Chai, Tiantian Yu, Qingnan Wu, Yan Wang, Weimin Zhang, Qimin Zhan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implicaciones de la ley de protección al paciente y de acceso a cuidados (PPACA) en los inmigrantes latinos del Estado de Minnesota

Tendencias, 2012
El presente artículo analiza el impacto de la reforma en el sistema de salud de los Estados Unidos de América, también conocido como el Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), sobre las vidas de los inmigrantes nacidos en Latinoamérica y que ...
Diego Mauricio Díaz Velásquez
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