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Impact of opioid overdoses on US life expectancy and years of life lost, by demographic group and stimulant co-involvement: a mortality data analysis from 2019 to 2022

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
Summary Background The United States’ opioid crisis is worsening, with the number of deaths reaching 81,806 in 2022 after more than tripling over the past decade.
Anne H. Hébert, A. Hill
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Outcomes of Live Virus Vaccination in Patients With Vascular Anomalies Being Treated With Sirolimus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Live vaccination in patients with vascular anomalies (VA) receiving sirolimus remains controversial due to immunosuppressive effects and theoretical risks. Procedure This single‐center retrospective study included patients with VA less than 4 years old at the start of sirolimus therapy who were incompletely vaccinated.
Svatava Merkle, Kiersten Ricci, Kelly Blache, Rebecca A. Marsh, Adrienne M. Hammill, Elissa Engel   +5 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Establishing and mapping heat-sensitive disease spectrum in eastern China: A comprehensive analysis of 1.4 million deaths involving 14 major disease categories

Environment International
Background: Although high temperatures can affect multiple systems and organs, the comprehensive assessment of heat-sensitive diseases remains unclear. We aimed to establish the heat-related sensitive disease spectrum and assess the relative importance ...
Yiming Gai, Hong Su, Yinguang Fan, Wenjun Cheng, Xiaojie Zou, Yarui Fan, Yuefang Li, Zhen Ding, Jintao Liu, Yongmei Su, Zien Jin, Liwei Zhang, Yanan Ouyang, Yujia Zhai, Yiyun Ding, Chun Zhao, Jian Cheng, Hao Zheng   +17 more
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Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care

European Journal of Epidemiology, 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has not affected the population evenly. This must be acknowledged when it comes to understanding the Covid-19 death toll and answering the question of how many life years have been lost. We use level of geriatric care to account for

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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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Beyond death counts: how COVID-19 affected excess mortality and productive life-years lost across 28 European states, 2020–2023

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionExcess mortality attributable to COVID-19 has been extensively investigated in the public health literature. This study extends the scope of previous findings by estimating three interrelated measures, excess deaths, excess Years of Life Lost,
Paweł Niewiadomski, Jakub Wojtasik, Błażej Łyszczarz   +2 more
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The global burden of neglected zoonotic diseases: Current state of evidence

One Health, 2023
The majority of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, most of which are classified as “neglected”. By affecting both humans and animals, zoonoses pose a dual burden.
Carlotta Di Bari, Narmada Venkateswaran, Christina Fastl, Sarah Gabriël, Delia Grace, Arie H. Havelaar, Ben Huntington, Grace T. Patterson, Jonathan Rushton, Niko Speybroeck, Paul Torgerson, David M. Pigott, Brecht Devleesschauwer   +12 more
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Global Overview of Drug Demand and Supply: Latest Trends, Cross-cutting Issues [PDF]

, 2017
An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...

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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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