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Addressing non-communicable diseases and injuries through an equity lens: insights from the Cameroon non-communicable disease and injury (NCDI) Poverty Commission

Background: Non-communicable diseases and injuries (NCDIs) constitute a leading cause of premature mortality globally, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To curb the rising burden of NCDIs in Cameroon, the Ministry of Public Health established...

Functional seizures: care experiences of U.S. Veterans and their care partners

Functional seizures (FS) present substantial diagnostic and treatment challenges, particularly for Veterans with multiple medical and psychiatric comorbidities including post traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders and traumatic brain injury. To more effectively care for Vetera...

Associations Between Natural Language Processing‒Enriched Social Determinants of Health and Fatal Opioid Overdose Among US Veterans, Fiscal Year 2018‒2021.

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Coated or chewable Aspirin and a hybrid air pollution mitigation strategy in patients with atherosclerotic disease: Rationale and Design of the COATED-AIR Randomized Trial.

BACKGROUND: Although enteric-coated aspirin is widely used instead of chewable formulations in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD), its effects on cardiovascular and gastrointestinal outcomes remain uncertain. Separately, air pollution is a driver of car...

Parent–Clinician Communication and End‐of‐Life Preparation in Pediatric Oncology: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed‐Methods Study

PURPOSE: Parental preparedness for their child's end of life (EOL) may lessen perceived suffering and prolonged grief. Although clear communication may support parental preparedness, the specific communication components that influence this process remain poorly understood. This...

Radiology considerations for the PREMIUM study: a multicenter randomized controlled trial of abbreviated MRI versus ultrasound for liver cancer screening in cirrhosis

Abstract This paper describes the rationale and radiology considerations in the implementation of the Preventing Liver Cancer Mortality through Imaging with Ultrasound versus MRI (PREMIUM) study. PREMIUM is a multicenter, randomized controlled trial sponsored by the Department of...

Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality

Personality traits describe stable differences in how people think, feel and behave, and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments1,2. Many questions remain unanswered about associations between DNA and personality traits, such as their robustne...

Intravenous Infusion of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhances Long-Tract Reorganization That Circumvents the Lesion in a Rat Staggered Hemisection Spinal Cord Injury Model

Background/Objectives: Non-contiguous dual spinal cord injuries are associated with poor neurological outcomes, probably due to reduced spared-tract bridges for compensatory reorganization. Intravenous (IV) infusion of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) promotes recovery after SCI. Ho...

Data-driven prediction of fifteen-year all-cause mortality among 2.3 million individuals in the VA

ABSTRACT We present a data-driven framework to predict 15-year all-cause mortality using outpatient administrative records for 2.3 million Veterans in the largest integrated U.S. healthcare system. Rather than relying on predefined clinical phenotypes, we used the 1,000 most comm...