Differences in smoking behavior and beliefs about abstinence among Latinx individuals with and without depression who smoke cigarettes
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Source: Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse - December 18, 2023 Category: Addiction Authors: Michael J. ZvolenskyJustin M. ShepherdBryce K. ClausenMarcel de DiosMiguel Ángel CanoBrooke Y. Redmonda Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texasb Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Source Type: research

Social workers are key to addressing social determinants of health in integrated care settings
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Source: Social Work in Health Care - December 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Liana PetruzziNicole MilanoQi ChenLailea NoelRobyn GoldenBarbara Jonesa Population Health Department, Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USAb Rutgers School of Social Work, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USAc Steve Hicks School of Social Source Type: research

(p)ppGpp is required for virulence of Shigella flexneri
Infection and Immunity, Ahead of Print. (Source: Infection and Immunity)
Source: Infection and Immunity - December 15, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Grace KagoCharles L. TurnboughJuan Carlos SalazarShelley M. Payne1Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA2Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA3Programa de Source Type: research

Depression in older women who died by suicide: associations with other suicide contributors and suicide methods
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Source: Journal of Women and Aging - December 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Namkee G. ChoiC. Nathan MartiSteve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Source Type: research

Sustained Disease Control in Immune Checkpoint Blockade Responders with Microsatellite Instability-high Colorectal Cancer after Treatment Termination
Cancer Res Commun. 2023 Dec 11;3(12):2510-2517. doi: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0340.ABSTRACTImmune checkpoint inhibitors improve survival in patients with mismatch repair deficiency/microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer. The recurrence outcomes following discontinuation of immunotherapy after prolonged disease control have not been definitively reported in large series. Records from patients with advanced MSI-H colorectal cancer from The University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center who received immunotherapy between 2014 and 2022 and stopped after prolonged clinical benefit were reviewed. Median progr...
Source: Cancer Control - December 12, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kristen Simmons Jane V Thomas Kaysia Ludford Jason A Willis Victoria S Higbie Kanwal P S Raghav Benny Johnson Arvind Dasari Bryan K Kee Christine M Parseghian Michael S Lee Phat H Le Maria P Morelli John Paul Shen Alisha Bent Eduardo Vilar Robert A Wolff Source Type: research

Attitudes, Emotions, and Emotion Regulation as Underlying and In-The-Moment Predictors of Men ’s Intentions to Perpetrate Sexual Assault: An Application of the I3 Model
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Source: The Journal of Sex Research - December 12, 2023 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Mitchell KirwanDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso Source Type: research

Development of the Virtual Kitchen Protocol for Prospective Memory: a virtual reality-based measure of everyday prospective memory abilities
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Source: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology - December 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael D. BarnettAllyson M. ColdironDepartment of Psychology and Counseling, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA Source Type: research

H. Eldon Sutton, PhD (1927 –2023): A long and full life
Eldon Sutton, professor emeritus at University of Texas at Austin passed away on June 20, 2023 in Austin, TX at the age of 96. Beverly, his wife of 61 years, predeceased him by four months in February 2023. His daughters, Susan and Caroline, and two granddaughters survive him. Eldon was the epitome of a Texas gentleman, tall and erudite, calm and soft spoken, with no trace of accent to show his Texas roots. He was at the forefront of human genetics in many respects. He was on the faculty at the University of Michigan ’s newly formed Department of Genetics in 1956 with Jim Neel. (Source: The American Journal of Human Genetics)
Source: The American Journal of Human Genetics - December 7, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Barbara R. DuPont, Roberta Palmour, Patricia Howard-Peebles, Chih-Lin Hsieh Tags: Obituary Source Type: research

A Look at Surgical Care in a State Correctional System —Unique and Informative but Incomplete
In the current issue of JAMA Surgery, Mao and coauthors at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) describe their experience of providing surgical care for a large number of incarcerated patients from the adjacent Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Hospital. They reported that incarcerated surgical patients had equivalent 30-day rates of mortality and readmission but a higher morbidity rate than the nonincarcerated surgical population. (Source: JAMA Surgery)
Source: JAMA Surgery - December 6, 2023 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research

Quality of Surgical Care Within the Criminal Justice Health Care System
This cohort study reviews perioperative outcomes for patients incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who underwent a general or vascular surgery procedure at the University of Texas Medical Branch between 2012 and 2021. (Source: JAMA Surgery)
Source: JAMA Surgery - December 6, 2023 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research

Global research trends and prospects related to tumor microenvironment within Triple Negative Breast Cancer: a bibliometric analysis
ConclusionThe TME in TNBC is an area of rapidly growing and evolving research interest, with extensive global collaboration helping to drive this field forward. Antitumor therapies targeting the TME in TNBC patients represent an emerging topic of future research, providing opportunities for translational findings. The results of this analysis may provide additional guidance for work focused on the TME in TNBC. (Source: Frontiers in Immunology)
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - December 4, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research