Four cold-causing coronaviruses may provide clues to COVID ’s future
Over a few weeks in November 1889, a respiratory disease attacked half the residents of St. Petersburg, Russia, and it soon began to race through Europe and the rest of the world. Two years later, in a spectacularly detailed book , a British medical officer, H. Franklin Parsons, described what was dubbed the “Russian influenza” epidemic, which raged until 1894. People seemed to spread the disease before developing symptoms, the young did not suffer as much as the old, a dry cough was common among the ill, some had a “perversion of taste and smell,” and deaths rose. Suspicions ran high that a pathogen had ...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - January 11, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Effect of in vivo aging on the surface and electrochemical properties of magnetic attachments used in facial prostheses: A retrieval analysis study
CONCLUSIONS: In vivo aging exerts extended degradation on the elastomer part of facial prostheses as well as deterioration of their surface integrity and electrochemical properties.PMID:38184396 | DOI:10.1016/j.prosdent.2023.11.028 (Source: Cancer Control)
Source: Cancer Control - January 6, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ioli Ioanna Artopoulou Mark S Chambers Georgios Polychronis Frixos Papadopoulos Anastasios Economou Spiros Zinelis Source Type: research

Loneliness in older adults with diabetes mellitus: a scoping review
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Source: Psychology, Health and Medicine - January 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Emma ChoJeeyeon KimSohyeon BangSchool of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Source Type: research

A multisite examination of women veterans in veterans treatment courts: a gendered comparison of demography, criminal history, program requirements, and substance use and mental health issues
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Source: Journal of Offender Rehabilitation - January 2, 2024 Category: Criminology Authors: Richard D. HartleyJulie M. Baldwina Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USAb Department of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University, Washington, DC, USA Source Type: research

Navigating post- hepatectomy care: Risk-stratified pathways and patient-centric medicine
In the study “Utilizing Risk-Stratified Pathways to Personalize Post-Hepatectomy Discharge Planning: A Contemporary Analysis of 1354 Patients” Martin et al. utilized a prospective quality improvement institutional database at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to stratify patients who underwen t hepatectomy by risk of early postoperative events.1 The authors have previously described the creation of preoperatively assigned risk-stratified post-hepatectomy pathways designed with the goal of reducing hospital length of stay. (Source: American Journal of Surgery)
Source: American Journal of Surgery - January 2, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Annabelle L. Fonseca, Martin J. Heslin Tags: Invited Commentary Source Type: research

Delta Radiomic Features Predict Resection Margin Status and Overall Survival in Neoadjuvant-Treated Pancreatic Cancer Patients
CONCLUSIONS: Our externally validated, predictive/prognostic delta-radiomics models, which incorporate clinical variables, show promise in predicting the risk of predicting RMS in NAT-treated PDAC patients and their OS or DFS.PMID:38151623 | DOI:10.1245/s10434-023-14805-5 (Source: Ann Oncol)
Source: Ann Oncol - December 27, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kai Wang John D Karalis Ahmed Elamir Alessandro Bifolco Megan Wachsmann Giovanni Capretti Paola Spaggiari Sebastian Enrico Kishore Balasubramanian Nafeesah Fatimah Giada Pontecorvi Martina Nebbia Adam Yopp Ravi Kaza Ivan Pedrosa Herbert Zeh Patricio Polan Source Type: research

La Mariposita ¿La recuerda?: the affective and moral dimensions of professional vision in learning to play the violin
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Source: Mind, Culture, and Activity - December 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Jean JohnsonDepartment of Teacher Education, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, USA Source Type: research

Social workers are key to addressing social determinants of health in integrated care settings
Volume 63, Issue 2, January-June 2024 . (Source: Social Work in Health Care)
Source: Social Work in Health Care - December 27, 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

La mariposita ¿La recuerda?: the affective and moral dimensions of professional vision in learning to play the violin
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Source: Mind, Culture, and Activity - December 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Jean JohnsonDepartment of Teacher Education, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, USA Source Type: research

Autologous engineered T cell receptor therapy in advanced cancer
Volume 19, Issue 3, December 2023 . (Source: Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics)
Source: Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics - December 20, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Apostolia M. TsimberidouMehmet A. BaysalAbhijit ChakrabortyBorje S. Anderssona Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USAb Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular The Source Type: research

A bibliometric and visual analysis of cancer-associated fibroblasts
ConclusionTargeting CAFs is anticipated to be a novel and effective strategy for cancer treatment. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the existing research on CAFs from 2001 to 2022, utilizing bibliometric analysis. The study identified the prominent areas of investigation and anticipated future research directions, with the aim of providing valuable insights and recommendations for future studies in the field of CAFs. (Source: Frontiers in Immunology)
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - December 19, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer
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Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics - December 19, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jenny L. SingletonKristin WalkerRichard P. MeierAaron Shielda Stony Brook Universityb The University of Texas at Austinc Miami University Source Type: research