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Parent Quality of Life at Two Years Following Their Child's Completion of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science, Technology, Society, and Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Law and regulation increasingly interact with science, technology, and medicine in contemporary society. Law and social science (LSS) analyses can therefore benefit from rigorous, nuanced social scientific accounts of the nature of scientific knowledge ...
Bertenthal, Alyse, Cole, Simon A
core   +1 more source

Cognitive Functioning in Vorinostat‐Treated Pediatric and Young Adult Patients Over the First 180 Days After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Realizing the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy (2016–2035): How Can Social Approaches to Tuberculosis Elimination Contribute to Progress in Asia and the Pacific?

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2019
This review article discusses how social approaches to tuberculosis elimination might contribute to realizing the targets stipulated in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) End TB Strategy (2016⁻2035), with an emphasis on opportunities for ...
Christopher A. John
doaj   +1 more source

HIV/AIDS: Ayurvedic Medicine\u27s Impact on India\u27s Social Stigma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient form of treatment that has existed in India through scriptures and generations for thousands of years. It is practiced by “indigenous medical practitioners” or natural medical practitioners that assume the role of healers
Francis, Shawn
core   +1 more source

A PRSZT Registry Analysis of Prognostic Factors Influencing Survival and Relapse Rates After Second Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A second allogeneic (allo‐)hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT2) is a potential curative option for pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) following relapse after first allogeneic transplantation (HSCT1), but its efficacy is limited by high relapse rates and transplant‐related toxicity in highly pretreated ...
Ava Momm   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons from Mexico’s H1N1 Influenza Outbreak

open access: yesSocial Medicine, 2009
1. Mexico needs to rebuild an efficient epidemiological monitoring system which can react in a timely manner to unusual infectious outbreaks. SINAVE, the National Epidemiologic Monitoring System, showed itself incapable of responding opportunely and ...
Latin American Social Medicine Association
doaj  

Situating care in mainstream health economics: an ethical dilemma? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Standard health economics concentrates on the provision of care by medical professionals. Yet ‘care’ receives scant analysis; it is portrayed as a spillover effect or externality in the form of interdependent utility functions.
Davis, John B., McMaster, Robert
core   +3 more sources

Evaluation of the Utility of Baseline Echocardiogram in Patients With Standard Risk Precursor B‐Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background A routine baseline echocardiogram is often obtained prior to anthracycline administration in children with cancer. The utility of baseline echocardiogram is unclear in patients with standard risk B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (SR B‐ALL) as their anthracycline cumulative dose is low.
Ziyad Alrajhi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ouro Preto Declaration: Creation of the Latin American Social Medicine Association (1984)

open access: yesSocial Medicine, 2009
Those signing below, attendees of the II Latin American Seminar on Social Medicine, have decided to establish the Latin American Association of Social Medicine.
Latin American Social Medicine Association
doaj  

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