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The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare coverage and access in racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States

Geospatial Health, 2023
This study described spatiotemporal changes in health insurance coverage, healthcare access, and reasons for non-insurance among racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic using four national survey datasets ...
Lauren Freelander, David S. Rickless, Corey Anderson, Frank Curriero, Sarah Rockhill, Amir Mirsajedin, Caleb J. Colón, Jasmine Lusane, Alexander Vigo-Valentín, David Wong   +9 more
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Effects of toxic substances on female reproduction [PDF]

Environmental Health Perspectives, 1983
Successful reproduction requires a complex series of interdependent physiological, cellular and molecular events. In the female many of these interdependent events are vulnerable to interruption by xenobiotic compounds. The physiological steps in the female reproductive cycle are reviewed.
D R, Mattison, M S, Nightingale, K, Shiromizu   +2 more
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Transforming geographic scale: a comparison of combined population and areal weighting to other interpolation methods

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2017
Background Transforming spatial data from one scale to another is a challenge in geographic analysis. As part of a larger, primary study to determine a possible association between travel barriers to pediatric cancer facilities and adolescent cancer ...
Elaine Hallisey, Eric Tai, Andrew Berens, Grete Wilt, Lucy Peipins, Brian Lewis, Shannon Graham, Barry Flanagan, Natasha Buchanan Lunsford   +8 more
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Workflow for predictive risk assessments of UVCBs: cheminformatics library design, QSAR, and read-across approaches applied to complex mixtures of metal naphthenates

Frontiers in Toxicology
Substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, and biological materials (UVCBs) are commonly found in the environment. However, assessing their human toxicological risk is challenging due to their variable composition and many ...
A. J. Prussia, C. Welsh, T. S. Somers, P. Ruiz   +3 more
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Breast cancer risk and serum levels of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances: a case-control study nested in the California Teachers Study

Environmental Health, 2018
Background Per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a large family of synthetic chemicals, some of which are mammary toxicants and endocrine disruptors. Their potential as breast carcinogens is unclear.
Susan Hurley, Debbie Goldberg, Miaomiao Wang, June-Soo Park, Myrto Petreas, Leslie Bernstein, Hoda Anton-Culver, David O. Nelson, Peggy Reynolds   +8 more
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Understanding community resilience during the drinking water contamination event on Oahu, Hawaii, 2021–2022: a mixed mode approach

BMC Public Health
Background A petroleum leak into the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam water system on Oahu, Hawaii in November 2021 contaminated the drinking water of approximately 93,000 users, causing many to relocate for months. Perceptions of health and wellbeing were
Vidisha Parasram, Amanda R. Smith, Michele L. F. Bolduc, Jamie Rayman, Alex Poniatowski, Nicole Mintz, Madeline Jarvis, Alyssa N. Troeschel, Shanna Miko, Krishna Surasi, Charles Edge, Benjamin Gerhardstein, Diana Felton, Maureen F. Orr   +13 more
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TOXIC SUBSTANCES PRODUCED BY PNEUMOCOCCUS [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1912
1. The filtered blood serum of rabbits infected with pneumococci is not toxic. 2. Extracts of pneumococci prepared by keeping emulsions of the bacteria in salt solution at 37° C. for varying periods of time may be toxic, and when injected intravenously into guinea pigs, may produce a train of symptoms followed by acute death resembling ...
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Central Nervous System Neuroblastoma, FOXR2‐Activated: A Pooled Analysis of Published Clinical Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) neuroblastoma, FOXR2‐activated, is a recently recognized entity in the WHO CNS5 classification, defined by activation of the FOXR2 transcription factor and unique histopathological features. This review synthesizes available literature and pooled clinical data, providing insight into demographics ...
Sudarshawn Damodharan, Mohamed S. Abdelbaki   +1 more
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Head Injury and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Population-Based Study from the National ALS Registry

Brain Sciences
Background/Objectives: To examine if head injury (HI) is associated with age at ALS diagnosis in the United States. Methods: In this cross-sectional populationf-based analysis, we identified patients with ALS who were registered from 2015 to 2023 who ...
Jaime Raymond, Ileana M. Howard, Jasmine Berry, Theodore Larson, D. Kevin Horton, Paul Mehta   +5 more
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Prevalence of 21 Physician‐Defined Severe Toxicities Following Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment: Australian Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, with an overall survival now surpassing 90% in developed countries. However, treatments are not without adverse effects. In this study, we apply the severe toxicity‐free survival (STFS) framework to determine the prevalence of 21 physician‐defined severe ...
Lane Collier, Brittany Grantham, Camilla Grud Nielsen, Louise Lundgren, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Chris Selman, Gareth Ball, Elyse Passmore, David A. Elliott, Rachel Conyers   +10 more
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