The influenza landscape and vaccination coverage in older adults during the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic: data from Several European Countries and Israel
Expert Rev Respir Med. 2024 Apr 23. doi: 10.1080/17476348.2024.2340470. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: The Raise Awareness of Influenza Strategies in Europe (RAISE) group gathered information about the healthcare burden of influenza (hospitalizations, intensive care unit [ICU] admissions, and excess deaths), surveillance systems, and the vaccine coverage rate (VCR) in older adults in 18 European countries and Israel.AREAS COVERED: Published medical literature and official medical documentation on the influenza disease burden in the participating countries were reviewed from 2010/11 until the 2022/23 influenza ...
Source: Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine - April 23, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: George Kassianos Jean-Marie Cohen Rok Civljak Nadav Davidovitch Oana Falup Pecurariu Filipe Froes Andrei Galev Inga Ivaskeviciene Kadri K õivumägi Zuzana Kristufkova Ernest Kuchar Jan Kyncl Helena C Maltezou Milo š Marković Aneta Nitsch-Osuch Raul Ort Source Type: research
Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess in Israel: A Case Series and Literature Review
CONCLUSIONS: In this 11-year follow-up report of two Israeli families with AME, patients who presented early maintained long-term normal kidney function, while those who presented late progressed to ESKD. Nevertheless, despite early diagnosis and management, AME is commonly associated with serious complications of the disease or its treatment.PMID:38652803 | DOI:10.1093/ejendo/lvae049 (Source: European Journal of Endocrinology)
Source: European Journal of Endocrinology - April 23, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Asaf Lebel Efrat Ben Shalom Rozan Mokatern Raphael Halevy Yoav Zehavi Daniela Magen Source Type: research
Active feedback stabilization of super-efficient microcombs in photonic molecules
Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) frequency combs, when generated within coupled cavities, exhibit exceptional performance concerning ... (Source: Optics Letters)
Source: Optics Letters - April 22, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Israel Rebolledo-Salgado Ó skar B. Helgason Vicente Dur á n Marcello Girardi Martin Zelan Victor Torres-Company Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 2653: FPGA-Microprocessor Based Sensor for Faults Detection in Induction Motors Using Time-Frequency and Machine Learning Methods
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Induction motors (IM) play a fundamental role in the industrial sector because they are robust, efficient, and low-cost machines. Changes in the environment, installation errors, or modifications to working conditions can generate faults in induction motors. The trend on IM fault detection is focused on the design techniques and sensors capable of evaluating multiple faults with various signals using non-invasive analysis. The methodology is based on processing electric current signals by applying the short-time Fourier transform (STFT). Additionally, the computation of the mean and standard deviation of in...
Source: Sensors - April 22, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Roque Alfredo Osornio-Rios Isaias Cueva-Perez Alvaro Ivan Alvarado-Hernandez Larisa Dunai Israel Zamudio-Ramirez Jose Alfonso Antonino-Daviu Tags: Article Source Type: research
An Anthroposophic Medical Treatment in the Land of Salt and Gold
AbstractIn this narrative, a general practitioner and psychotherapist trained in anthroposophic medicine presents the narrative and treatment of a 60-year-old woman who experienced the horrors of the “Dark Sabbath” attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The patient’s story is narrated by the physician, who shares his multi-disciplinary and multi-modal anthroposophic medicine approach to address the patient’s acute stress disorder–related symptoms and concerns. (Source: Current Psychiatry Reports)
Source: Current Psychiatry Reports - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Meeting the challenges of the 21st century: the fundamental importance of trust for transformation
ConclusionTrust is essential if health systems are to meet the challenges of the 21st century but it is too often overlooked or, in some cases, undermined. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Oscillometric devices vs. arterial Doppler in measuring the ankle-arm index for the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease
CONCLUSION: Automated oscillometric devices could be useful in asymptomatic patients as an alternative to arterial Doppler.PMID:38643026 | DOI:10.1016/j.medcli.2024.02.003 (Source: Medicina Clinica)
Source: Medicina Clinica - April 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Irene Mart ín-Rubio Beatriz Mar ín-García Elisa Romero-Velasco Israel John Thuissard-Vasallo Azucena Bautista-Hern ández Daniel Abad-P érez Source Type: research
Rapid molecular epidemiology investigations into two recent measles outbreaks in Israel detected from October 2023 to January 2024
In this study, we validate transmission pathways uncovered by epidemiological investigations using a rapid molecular approach, based on complete measles virus genomes. The presented findings support this rapid molecular approach in complementing conventional contact tracing and highlight its potential for informing public health interventions.PMID:38639095 | PMC:PMC11027474 | DOI:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.16.2400202 (Source: Euro Surveill)
Source: Euro Surveill - April 19, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Efrat Bucris Victoria Indenbaum Tal Levin Yara Kanaaneh Keren Friedman Tatyana Kushnir Rivka Sheffer Michal Savion Matanelle Salama Noa Di-Castro Kozita Labay Maya Butera Baraah Shihada Zohar Mor Yaniv Lustig Neta S Zuckerman Source Type: research
Language processing following childhood poverty: Evidence for disrupted neural networks
Brain Lang. 2024 Apr 18;252:105414. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105414. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChildhood poverty is related to deficits in multiple cognitive domains including adult language function. It is unknown if the brain basis of language is disrupted in adults with childhood poverty backgrounds, controlling for current functioning. Fifty-one adults (age 24) from an existing longitudinal study of childhood poverty, beginning at age 9, were examined on behavioral phonological awareness (LP) and completed an event-related fMRI speech/print processing LP task. Adults from childhood poverty backgrounds exhibited lo...
Source: Brain and Language - April 19, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Suzanne C Perkins S Shaun Ho Gary W Evans Israel Liberzon Meroona Gopang James E Swain Source Type: research
Arab mothers' viewpoints: Why their children are removed from home
CONCLUSIONS: The study sheds light, for the first time as far as we know, on the perspectives of Arab mothers concerning their children's removal. Early support could avert removal, and social workers should make greater efforts to promote child reunification. It is paramount that professionals build trust with these mothers, through culturally sensitive and empowering engagement.PMID:38636155 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106793 (Source: Child Abuse and Neglect)
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - April 18, 2024 Category: Child Development Authors: Agat Sold Tehila Refaeli Nada Omar Source Type: research
Rapid molecular epidemiology investigations into two recent measles outbreaks in Israel detected from October 2023 to January 2024
In this study, we validate transmission pathways uncovered by epidemiological investigations using a rapid molecular approach, based on complete measles virus genomes. The presented findings support this rapid molecular approach in complementing conventional contact tracing and highlight its potential for informing public health interventions. (Source: Eurosurveillance)
Source: Eurosurveillance - April 18, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Efrat Bucris, Victoria Indenbaum, Tal Levin, Yara Kanaaneh, Keren Friedman, Tatyana Kushnir, Revka Shefer, Michal Savion, Matanelle Salama, Noa Di-castro, Kozita Labay, Maya Butera, Baraah Shihada, Zohar Mor, Yaniv Lustig and Neta S. Zuckerman Source Type: research
New initiative aims to bolster funding for scientists in war-torn Ukraine
WASHINGTON, D.C.—
For astrophysicist David Spergel, teaching at a summer school about data science in August 2023 in Ukraine was a “surreal” experience. At times, utterly normal—smart students and collegial dinners in the charming cobblestoned city of Lviv. But punctuated by sirens and cellphone alerts warning of Russian missile attacks that compelled attendees to seek refuge in bomb shelters. Spergel, president of
the Simons Foundation
, started to think there had to be something more the West could do to aid his Ukrainian colleagues.
Eight months later, that idea has blossomed into the Scienc...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 17, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Outcomes and predictors of left ventricle recovery in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation
CONCLUSIONS: LV recovery following TAVI and the extent of this recovery are major determinants of midterm mortality in patients with severe AS and severe LV dysfunction undergoing TAVI. Patients with no previous MI and those with an mAVG >40 mmHg show the best results following TAVI, which are at least equivalent to those for patients without severe LV dysfunction. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04031274).PMID:38629416 | DOI:10.4244/EIJ-D-23-00948 (Source: EuroIntervention)
Source: EuroIntervention - April 17, 2024 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Guy Witberg Amos Levi Yeela Talmor-Barkan Marco Barbanti Roberto Valvo Giuliano Costa Valentina Frittitta Ole de Backer Yannick Willemen Mark van Der Dorpel Matias Mon Atsushi Sugiura Mitsumasa Sudo Giulia Masiero Edoardo Pancaldi Dabit Arzamendi Sandra S Source Type: research
Phthalates and substitute plasticizers: Main achievements from the European human biomonitoring initiative HBM4EU
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2024 Apr 16;259:114378. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114378. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPhthalates and the substitute plasticizer DINCH belong to the first group of priority substances investigated by the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) to answer policy-relevant questions and safeguard an efficient science-to-policy transfer of results. Human internal exposure levels were assessed using two data sets from all European regions and Israel. The first collated existing human biomonitoring (HBM) data (2005-2019). The second consisted of new data generated in the harmonized "HBM4EU Alig...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Antje Gerofke Rosa Lange Nina Vogel Phillipp Schmidt Till Weber Madlen David Hanne Frederiksen Kirsten Baken Eva Govarts Liese Gilles Laura Rodriguez Martin Žanna Martinsone Tiina Santonen Greet Schoeters Martin Scheringer Elena Dom ínguez-Romero Marta Source Type: research
Outcomes and predictors of left ventricle recovery in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation
CONCLUSIONS: LV recovery following TAVI and the extent of this recovery are major determinants of midterm mortality in patients with severe AS and severe LV dysfunction undergoing TAVI. Patients with no previous MI and those with an mAVG >40 mmHg show the best results following TAVI, which are at least equivalent to those for patients without severe LV dysfunction. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04031274).PMID:38629416 | PMC:PMC11017227 | DOI:10.4244/EIJ-D-23-00948 (Source: EuroIntervention)
Source: EuroIntervention - April 17, 2024 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Guy Witberg Amos Levi Yeela Talmor-Barkan Marco Barbanti Roberto Valvo Giuliano Costa Valentina Frittitta Ole de Backer Yannick Willemen Mark van Der Dorpel Matias Mon Atsushi Sugiura Mitsumasa Sudo Giulia Masiero Edoardo Pancaldi Dabit Arzamendi Sandra S Source Type: research
