ABSTRACT Background/Aim Head and neck cancer presents a significant challenge for patients. Beyond the direct impact of the disease, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, while essential for cancer control, can further compromise patients' quality of life (QoL) and emotional well‐being, while also introducing additional complications.
Alice Maria Santagostino +8 more
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ABSTRACT Background and Aims The immediate and long‐term effects of COVID‐19 pandemic on the children go beyond just being a viral infection. A child's mental health and psychological issues like irritability, anxiety, sadness, non‐attentiveness, attention deficit and hyperactive disorder needed evaluation.
Ranjan K. Mohapatra +20 more
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Shifting Agendas and Competing Interests within Public Health, Science and Technology, and Medicine in Africa [PDF]
In lieu of the abstract, here is the review\u27s first paragraph: Until recent times, the conventional history of public health, of science and technology, and of medicine has been presented in the West as a tale of out-migration from the advanced ...
Baronov, David
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Low mid-upper arm circumference identifies children with a high risk of death who should be the priority target for treatment [PDF]
Background: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is currently defined by the WHO as either a low mid-upper arm circumference (i.e. MUAC
Alvarez, José-Luis +25 more
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ABSTRACT Anorexia nervosa (AN) leads to severe dietary restriction, low body weight, and in many patients, hepatocellular steatosis. Clinically, hepatic fat in AN is usually macrovesicular, whereas microvesicular steatosis is more often associated with severe starvation and mitochondrial dysfunction.
Michiko Ishii +9 more
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A Follow-up Experience of 6 months after Treatment of Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Dhaka, Bangladesh [PDF]
Aim: As there is lack of information about what happens to children after recovery from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), we report their relapse, morbidity, mortality and referral during follow-up period. Methods: From February 2001 to November 2003, 180
Ahmed, Tahmeed +7 more
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Effectiveness of three commonly used transition phase diets in the inpatient management of children with severe acute malnutrition: a pilot randomized controlled trial in Malawi. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The case fatality rate of severely malnourished children during inpatient treatment is high and mortality is often associated with diarrhea. As intestinal carbohydrate absorption is impaired in severe acute malnutrition (SAM), differences in ...
Bandsma, Robert HJ +9 more
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Serum Zinc, Copper, Magnesium & Phosphorus Level in Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).
Malnutrition is widely prevalent among hospitalized children in most developing countries including Bangladesh. Though malnutrition accounts for the high rate of under 5 mortality sometimes it is overlooked. Keeping in this in mind A comparative cross sectional study was done in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital from 1st October 2009 to 31st May 2011.
B, Chowdhury +11 more
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Global Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature From 2024
ABSTRACT Objective The Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) identifies impactful research in global emergency care. This 20th annual edition reviews GEM literature published in 2024 and highlights the growth of GEMLR over the years. Methods We conducted a scoping review of 2024 GEM articles through structured PubMed and gray literature ...
J. Austin Lee +85 more
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Retrospective Assessment of Malnutrition Among Under-five Children in Ayder Referral Hospital, Tigray Ethiopia [PDF]
Currently worldwide there are about 60 million children with moderate acute and 13 million with severe acute malnutrition. About 9% of sub-Saharan African and 15%of south Asian children have moderate acute malnutrition and about 2% of children in ...
Gultie, T. (Teklemariam) +2 more
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