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Health and society. Contributions of Latin American Perspectives

Social Medicine, 2006
The paper deals with the history of Latin America and the development of sociology and social medicine thought it. It makes a balance of the emergence and contributions of this innovative thinking.
Oliva López Arellano, Florencia Peña Saint Martin   +1 more
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The Impact of an Experiential Social Medicine Curriculum in an Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program: Mixed-methods Curricular Evaluation. [PDF]

West J Emerg Med, 2022
Vongsachang H, Schneberk T, Sprunt L, Padilla G, Riddell J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Metastatic niche shaped by host factors influences disseminated cancer cell fate

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Metastasis is shaped not only by cancer cells but also by the environments they encounter. This review explores how factors such as aging, diet, the microbiome, lifestyle, and environmental exposures remodel organ‐specific niches in the lung, liver, bone, and brain, influencing where metastatic cells survive, remain dormant, or grow, and ultimately ...
Gwennan Delyth Ward, Álvaro Ruiz‐Tabas, Patricia Altea‐Manzano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Economic Crisis and Public Health

Social Medicine, 2009
The current global economic crisis seriously threatens the health of the public. Challenges include increases in malnutrition; homelessness and inadequate housing; unemployment; substance abuse, depression, and other mental health problems; mortality ...
Barry S. Levy, Victor W. Sidel
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The role of miR‐335‐5p in the redifferentiation of BRAF p.V600E thyroid cancers

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The BRAF p.V600E mutation promotes thyroid cancer dedifferentiation and radioiodine resistance. Using a network approach, we identified miR‐335‐5p as a key regulator of BRAF‐mutated thyroid tumors. Restoring miR‐335‐5p increased thyroid‐specific gene expression and iodine uptake in cells and organoids.
Valeria Pecce, Simone Bini, Marialuisa Sponziello, Giorgio Grani, Giulia Fiscon, Paola Paci, Lorenzo Farina, Rosa Falcone, Valentina Maggisano, Sebastiano Filetti, Cosimo Durante, Antonella Verrienti   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

More than just meds: National survey of providers’ perceptions of patients’ social, economic, environmental, and legal needs and their effect on emergency department utilization

Social Medicine, 2014
Introduction: Emergency departments (EDs) are the safety net for millions of patients who need to access care. Many of these patients have social needs that may influence their healthcare.
Lia ilona Losonczy, Dennis Hsieh, Chris Hahn, Jahan Fahimi, Harrison Alter   +4 more
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Society as Cause and Cure: The Norms of Transgender Social Medicine. [PDF]

Cult Med Psychiatry, 2021
Slagstad K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health: Perspective of the ALAMES Social Determinants Working Group

Social Medicine
Introduction The recent discussion of the social determinants of health, which has been promoted by the WHO as a way to approach global health conditions is neither a new nor a foreign subject for Latin American social medicine or collective health ...
Oliva López Arellano, José Carlos Escudero, Luz Dary Camona   +2 more
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Shaking Off Our Lassitude: Creating a Global Health Service-Learning Program Founded in Social Medicine

Social Medicine, 2014
This paper describes the creation and implementation of a global health service-learning elective. The elective was supported by Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital.
Francis Xavier Coughlin
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