Biobank Resilience Through Disasters: Role of Funding, Business Planning, Best Practices, and Standards
Biopreserv Biobank. 2024 Apr;22(2):95-97. doi: 10.1089/bio.2024.29136.editorial.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38621227 | DOI:10.1089/bio.2024.29136.editorial (Source: Biopreservation and Biobanking)
Source: Biopreservation and Biobanking - April 15, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Marianne K Henderson Sanela Kjellqvist Brenda L Yanak Source Type: research
ChatGPT and Corporations of Mega-journals Jeopardize the Norms That Underpin Academic Publishing
Arch Iran Med. 2024 Feb 1;27(2):110-112. doi: 10.34172/aim.2024.17.ABSTRACTThose who participate in and contribute to academic publishing are affected by its evolution. Funding bodies, academic institutions, researchers and peer-reviewers, junior scholars, freelance language editors, language-editing services, and journal editors are to enforce and uphold the ethical norms on which academic publishing is founded. Deviating from such norms will challenge and threaten the scholarly reputation, academic careers, and institutional standing; reduce the publishers' true impacts; squander public funding; and erode the public trus...
Source: Archives of Iranian Medicine - April 15, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Farid Rahimi Amin Talebi Bezmin Abadi Source Type: research
Biobank Resilience Through Disasters: Role of Funding, Business Planning, Best Practices, and Standards
Biopreserv Biobank. 2024 Apr;22(2):95-97. doi: 10.1089/bio.2024.29136.editorial.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38621227 | DOI:10.1089/bio.2024.29136.editorial (Source: Biopreservation and Biobanking)
Source: Biopreservation and Biobanking - April 15, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Marianne K Henderson Sanela Kjellqvist Brenda L Yanak Source Type: research
ChatGPT and Corporations of Mega-journals Jeopardize the Norms That Underpin Academic Publishing
Arch Iran Med. 2024 Feb 1;27(2):110-112. doi: 10.34172/aim.2024.17.ABSTRACTThose who participate in and contribute to academic publishing are affected by its evolution. Funding bodies, academic institutions, researchers and peer-reviewers, junior scholars, freelance language editors, language-editing services, and journal editors are to enforce and uphold the ethical norms on which academic publishing is founded. Deviating from such norms will challenge and threaten the scholarly reputation, academic careers, and institutional standing; reduce the publishers' true impacts; squander public funding; and erode the public trus...
Source: Archives of Iranian Medicine - April 15, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Farid Rahimi Amin Talebi Bezmin Abadi Source Type: research
Biobank Resilience Through Disasters: Role of Funding, Business Planning, Best Practices, and Standards
Biopreserv Biobank. 2024 Apr;22(2):95-97. doi: 10.1089/bio.2024.29136.editorial.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38621227 | DOI:10.1089/bio.2024.29136.editorial (Source: Biopreservation and Biobanking)
Source: Biopreservation and Biobanking - April 15, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Marianne K Henderson Sanela Kjellqvist Brenda L Yanak Source Type: research
Implementation of a Pediatric Trauma Registry at a National Referral Center in Kenya: Utility and Concern for Sustainability
Pediatric trauma is a global problem that disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with high death rates. The uneven distribution of morbidity and mortality is partially a result of unsafe living, working and travel environments as well as decreased access to timely, coordinated emergency care [1,2]. One main limitation to developing interventions and attracting funding streams is the paucity of published data on the epidemiology of pediatric trauma in many LMICs. Public health literature promotes use of trauma registries to inform policy priorities and quality improvement effort to strengthen tr...
Source: Injury - April 15, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Manisha B. Bhatia, Connie H. Keung, Jessica Hogan, Eunice Chepkemoi, Helen W. Li, Emmy J. Rutto, Robert Tenge, Joshua Kisorio, JoAnna L. Hunter-Squires, Peter W. Saula Source Type: research
‘Shrugging off failure is hard’: the $400-million grant setback that shaped the Smithsonian lead scientist’s career
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01108-2Planetary scientist Ellen Stofan thought about leaving research after a funding bid was rejected. But new opportunities emerged. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - April 15, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Anne Gulland Source Type: research
Immunogenicity and safety of an ORF7-deficient skin-attenuated and neuro-attenuated live vaccine for varicella: a randomised, double-blind, controlled, phase 2a trial
This study was registered on Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, ChiCTR2000034434.FINDINGS: On Aug 18-21, 2020, 842 eligible volunteers were enrolled and randomly assigned treatment. After three participants withdrew, 839 received a low dose (n=211), middle dose (n=210), or high dose (n=210) of v7D vaccine, or the vOka vaccine (n=208). In the per-protocol set for humoral immune response analysis, the anti-varicella zoster virus IgG antibody response was highest at day 90. At day 90, the seroconversion rates of the low-dose, medium-dose, and high-dose groups of v7D vaccine and the positive control vOka vaccine group were 100·...
Source: Herpes - April 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hong-Xing Pan Ling-Xian Qiu Qi Liang Zhen Chen Ming-Lei Zhang Sheng Liu Guo-Hua Zhong Kong-Xin Zhu Meng-Jun Liao Jia-Lei Hu Jia-Xue Li Jin-Bo Xu Yong Fan Yue Huang Ying-Ying Su Shou-Jie Huang Wei Wang Jin-Le Han Ji-Zong Jia Hua Zhu Tong Cheng Xiang-Zhong Source Type: research
Immunogenicity and safety of an ORF7-deficient skin-attenuated and neuro-attenuated live vaccine for varicella: a randomised, double-blind, controlled, phase 2a trial
This study was registered on Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, ChiCTR2000034434.FINDINGS: On Aug 18-21, 2020, 842 eligible volunteers were enrolled and randomly assigned treatment. After three participants withdrew, 839 received a low dose (n=211), middle dose (n=210), or high dose (n=210) of v7D vaccine, or the vOka vaccine (n=208). In the per-protocol set for humoral immune response analysis, the anti-varicella zoster virus IgG antibody response was highest at day 90. At day 90, the seroconversion rates of the low-dose, medium-dose, and high-dose groups of v7D vaccine and the positive control vOka vaccine group were 100·...
Source: Herpes - April 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hong-Xing Pan Ling-Xian Qiu Qi Liang Zhen Chen Ming-Lei Zhang Sheng Liu Guo-Hua Zhong Kong-Xin Zhu Meng-Jun Liao Jia-Lei Hu Jia-Xue Li Jin-Bo Xu Yong Fan Yue Huang Ying-Ying Su Shou-Jie Huang Wei Wang Jin-Le Han Ji-Zong Jia Hua Zhu Tong Cheng Xiang-Zhong Source Type: research
Nivolumab with or without ipilimumab in patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer (CheckMate 358): a phase 1-2, open-label, multicohort trial
This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02488759) and is now completed.FINDINGS: Between October, 2015, and March, 2020, 193 patients were recruited in the recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer cohort of CheckMate 358, of whom 176 were treated. 19 patients received nivolumab monotherapy, 45 received NIVO3 plus IPI1, and 112 received NIVO1 plus IPI3 (45 in the randomised group and 67 in the expansion group). Median follow-up times were 19·9 months (IQR 8·2-44·8) with nivolumab, 12·6 months (7·8-37·1) with NIVO3 plus IPI1, and 16·7 months (7·2-27·5) with pooled NIVO1 plus IPI3. Objective response rate...
Source: Ann Oncol - April 12, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ana Oaknin Kathleen Moore Tim Meyer Jos é López-Picazo González Lot A Devriese Asim Amin Christopher D Lao Valentina Boni William H Sharfman Jong Chul Park Makoto Tahara Suzanne L Topalian Manuel Magallanes Alejandro Molina Alavez Tariq Aziz Khan Cathe Source Type: research
Health Disparities in the Aftermath of Flood Events: A Review of Physical and Mental Health Outcomes with Methodological Considerations in the USA
AbstractPurpose of ReviewThis review applies an environmental justice perspective to synthesize knowledge of flood-related health disparities across demographic groups in the USA. The primary aim is to examine differential impacts on physical and mental health outcomes while also assessing methodological considerations such as flood exposure metrics, baseline health metrics, and community engagement.Recent FindingsIn our review (n = 27), 65% and 72% of studies identified racial, ethnic, or socio-economic disparities in physical and mental health outcomes post-flooding, respectively. The majority of racial/ethnic dispar...
Source: Current Environmental Health Reports - April 12, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
How low back pain is managed-a mixed methods study in 32 countries. Part 2 of Low Back Pain in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Series
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2024 Apr 11:1-42. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2024.12406. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The Lancet Series of Low Back Pain (LBP) highlighted the lack of LBP data from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The study aimed to describe (1) what LBP care is currently delivered in LMICs, and (2) how that care is delivered. METHODS: An online mixed-methods study. A Consortium for LBP in LMICs (n=65) was developed with an expert panel of leading LBP researchers (>2 publications on LBP) and multidisciplinary clinicians and patient partners with five years of clinical/lived LBP experience in LMI...
Source: Physical Therapy - April 11, 2024 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Saurab Sharma Anupa Pathak Romy Parker Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa Babita Ghai Chinonso Igwesi-Chidobe Prawit Janwantanakul Fabianna Resende de Jesus-Moraleida Mulugeta Bayisa Chala Mohammadreza Pourahmadi Andrew M Briggs Edward Gorgon Clare L Ardern Kar Source Type: research
How low back pain is managed-a mixed methods study in 32 countries. Part 2 of Low Back Pain in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Series
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2024 Apr 11:1-42. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2024.12406. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The Lancet Series of Low Back Pain (LBP) highlighted the lack of LBP data from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The study aimed to describe (1) what LBP care is currently delivered in LMICs, and (2) how that care is delivered. METHODS: An online mixed-methods study. A Consortium for LBP in LMICs (n=65) was developed with an expert panel of leading LBP researchers (>2 publications on LBP) and multidisciplinary clinicians and patient partners with five years of clinical/lived LBP experience in LMI...
Source: Physical Therapy - April 11, 2024 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Saurab Sharma Anupa Pathak Romy Parker Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa Babita Ghai Chinonso Igwesi-Chidobe Prawit Janwantanakul Fabianna Resende de Jesus-Moraleida Mulugeta Bayisa Chala Mohammadreza Pourahmadi Andrew M Briggs Edward Gorgon Clare L Ardern Kar Source Type: research
How low back pain is managed-a mixed methods study in 32 countries. Part 2 of Low Back Pain in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Series
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2024 Apr 11:1-42. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2024.12406. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The Lancet Series of Low Back Pain (LBP) highlighted the lack of LBP data from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The study aimed to describe (1) what LBP care is currently delivered in LMICs, and (2) how that care is delivered. METHODS: An online mixed-methods study. A Consortium for LBP in LMICs (n=65) was developed with an expert panel of leading LBP researchers (>2 publications on LBP) and multidisciplinary clinicians and patient partners with five years of clinical/lived LBP experience in LMI...
Source: Health Physics - April 11, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Saurab Sharma Anupa Pathak Romy Parker Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa Babita Ghai Chinonso Igwesi-Chidobe Prawit Janwantanakul Fabianna Resende de Jesus-Moraleida Mulugeta Bayisa Chala Mohammadreza Pourahmadi Andrew M Briggs Edward Gorgon Clare L Ardern Kar Source Type: research
How low back pain is managed-a mixed methods study in 32 countries. Part 2 of Low Back Pain in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Series
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2024 Apr 11:1-42. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2024.12406. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The Lancet Series of Low Back Pain (LBP) highlighted the lack of LBP data from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The study aimed to describe (1) what LBP care is currently delivered in LMICs, and (2) how that care is delivered. METHODS: An online mixed-methods study. A Consortium for LBP in LMICs (n=65) was developed with an expert panel of leading LBP researchers (>2 publications on LBP) and multidisciplinary clinicians and patient partners with five years of clinical/lived LBP experience in LMI...
Source: Physical Therapy - April 11, 2024 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Saurab Sharma Anupa Pathak Romy Parker Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa Babita Ghai Chinonso Igwesi-Chidobe Prawit Janwantanakul Fabianna Resende de Jesus-Moraleida Mulugeta Bayisa Chala Mohammadreza Pourahmadi Andrew M Briggs Edward Gorgon Clare L Ardern Kar Source Type: research
