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Animal stroke models and outcome evaluation: A review

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Rodents are the preeminent stroke model species. Large animal models exist too, but are poorly standardized. Ischemic and hemorrhagic experimental models are available, with the intraluminal filament model being predominant. Outcomes are evaluated via quantifying subjects' sensorimotor impairment, cognitive memory faculties, degree of cellular ...
Solsa Cariba, Helen M. Atkinson, Anthony K. C. Chan   +2 more
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Peer victimisation and drug use in sexual minorities

European Psychiatry
IntroductionAdversity in adolescence, including peer victimisation, is associated with substance misuse in young adults, particularly in vulnerable individuals like sexual minorities. However, the potential developmental mechanisms underlying this association are yet to be fully understood.ObjectivesThis study will empirically investigate the ...
Lee, R. S. C., Curley, A.
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Drug-using men who have sex with men: Sexual behaviours and sexual identities

Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2001
Men who have sex with men (MSM) and use drugs are at high risk for H V. This study assessed drug and sex-related risk behaviours and sexual identities for MSMIdrug injectors and crack smokers. One hundred and forty four MSM drug injectors and crack smokers from five USA cities were interviewed. One-third of the men were current injectors, twice as many
Deren, S., Stark, M., Rhodes, F., Siegal, Harvey A., Cottler, L., Wood, M., Kochems, L., Carlson, Robert G., Falck, Russel S., Rourke, K., Trotter, R., Weir, B., Goldstein, M. F., Wright-DeAguero, L.   +13 more
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Sexual assault incidents among college undergraduates: Prevalence and factors associated with risk.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Sexual assault on college campuses is a public health issue. However varying research methodologies (e.g., different sexual assault definitions, measures, assessment timeframes) and low response rates hamper efforts to define the scope of the problem. To
Claude A Mellins, Kate Walsh, Aaron L Sarvet, Melanie Wall, Louisa Gilbert, John S Santelli, Martie Thompson, Patrick A Wilson, Shamus Khan, Stephanie Benson, Karimata Bah, Kathy A Kaufman, Leigh Reardon, Jennifer S Hirsch   +13 more
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What can Irish cities learn from the response to drug use in New Orleans?

, 2018
There is an increasing recognition by police services that drug use is not a policing matter, but requires a health led response....
Duffin, Tony
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Representations of drug use and drug users in the British press. A content analysis of newspaper coverage. [PDF]

, 2010
Previous research has suggested that the media conveys a mainly negative impression which ‘demonises’ and ‘marginalises’ drugs users and misrepresents drugs users, drug use and its effects.

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Drug Use by NSW Children of School Age, 1980 Survey

, 2018
This survey, the latest in a ten year series of data collection on the drug use of children of school age in New South Wales, was conducted to provide comparable longitudinal data on a number of aspects of adolescent drug use.
Flaherty, Bruce, Trebilco, Peter, Egger, Garry   +2 more
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Statistical shape modeling of the human inner ear through micro‐computed tomography imaging

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
In this study, 54 cadaveric temporal bone specimens underwent high‐resolution micro‐CT imaging. Images were semi‐automatically segmented and converted to 3D surface mesh models for morphological measurement and analysis. Statistical shape models were created for the inner ear, cochlea, and vestibular system, as well as for sex‐ and side‐based subgroups.
Carmine Spedaliere, Alexandra Vaupotic, Jaehyun Hwang, Khalil Husein, Mustafa Hafidh, Kyle Rioux, S. Alireza Rohani, Sumit K. Agrawal, Hanif M. Ladak   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study highlights long-term prescription drug use.

, 2018
One-third of medical card patients receive long-term prescriptions for drugs that can lose their effect and cause problems such as falls, according to the first detailed analysis of benzodiazepine and Z-drug prescribing in Ireland.....
Shanahan, Catherine
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Human evolution and the obstetrical dilemma: The pelvic floor hypothesis

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Human childbirth is mechanically difficult because a large‐headed, broad‐shouldered fetus must pass through a comparatively narrow, twisted bony birth canal. Traditional explanations of this “obstetrical dilemma” emphasize the role of bipedal locomotion in inhibiting the evolution of a wider, more spacious pelvis.
Barbara Fischer, Ekaterina Stansfield
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