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MRI of Neurogenic Human Motor Units Following Poliomyelitis
Muscle &Nerve, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction/Aims Surviving motor units in neurogenic diseases demonstrate collateral reinnervation. Scanning electromyography (EMG) reveals normal motor unit corridor length, but with “silent regions,” suggesting that reinnervation does not result in increased motor unit size but may increase motor unit complexity.
Stuart Maitland +6 more
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Pain in Post-Polio Syndrome: A Separate Pain Entity?
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - Clinical Communications, 2022 Background: Most patients with polio recover from the initial infection, but develop muscle weakness, pain and fatigue after 15–40 years, a condition called post-polio syndrome.
Evert Christiaan Boshuis +2 more
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Research in Nursing &Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hope and hopelessness are sometimes considered to be two ends of a spectrum. Hope is associated with positive health outcomes in healthy and ill populations. Conversely, hopelessness has been associated with increased adverse clinical events and death in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD).
Holli A. DeVon +4 more
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Crippling Violence: Conflict and Incident Polio in Afghanistan. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BACKGROUND:Designing effective public health campaigns in areas of armed conflict requires a nuanced understanding of how violence impacts the epidemiology of the disease in question.
Alison Norris +3 more
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The impact of polio eradication on routine immunization and primary health care: a mixed-methods study. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: After 2 decades of focused efforts to eradicate polio, the impact of eradication activities on health systems continues to be controversial.
Banteyerga Amaha, Hailom +22 more
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PM&R, EarlyView.Abstract Background Late effects of polio (LEoP) is a progressive condition leading to a lifelong disability that can affect mental health. There is limited knowledge of depressive symptoms and associated factors in people with LEoP. Objective To assess the occurrence of depressive symptoms in people with LEoP and explore the association with ...
Maria Nolvi +3 more
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2023 Backgrounds: The Universal Immunization Program of India is one of the most cost-effective interventions in public health. Missing or delaying vaccination may elicit an uncertain immune response in the body, making the population susceptible to vaccine ...
Prakash Kumar +4 more
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Surviving polio in a post-polio world [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 2014 Excitement mounts as the global health and international development communities anticipate a polio-free world. Despite substantial political and logistical hurdles, only 223 cases of wild poliovirus in three countries were reported in 2012. Down 99% from the estimated 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988-this decline signals the imminent ...
Groce, NE, Banks, LM, Stein, MA
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Developing Successful Global Health Alliances [PDF]
, 2002 Examines the circumstances that call for alliance formation to reduce the burdens of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, river blindness, and many other diseases; the utility of various alliance models; and the characteristics of successful ...
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