Publications by authors named "A Borden"

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  • * Researchers studied how to support these young adults by working with autistic community partners and listening to their experiences.
  • * Participants said being independent means being true to themselves and highlighted three important supports: having choices, communicating in their own way, and feeling safe.
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  • A qualitative study analyzed the impact of the yoga-based intervention Eat Breath Thrive (EBT) on preventing and treating eating disorders, using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA).
  • Interviews with 16 participants revealed a progression from learning and practicing mindfulness to achieving a greater awareness and empowerment, which led to positive changes in self-perception and reduced disordered eating.
  • The study highlights the importance of experiential data in understanding how yoga and mindfulness can effectively contribute to improving well-being and self-acceptance among individuals at risk for eating disorders.
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  • Self-determination is important for everyone, including Autistic people, but they often face more challenges in achieving it compared to non-autistic people.
  • Researchers talked to 19 Autistic adults to understand what self-determination means to them and what helps or hinders them from making choices in life.
  • Autistic participants want support that respects their choices, helps them express their true selves, and offers practical help for their unique decision-making styles.
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Providing a definitive diagnostic test in a disease emergency is critical to limit pathogen spread, develop and deploy medical countermeasures, and mitigate the social and economic harms of a serious epidemic. While major accomplishments have accelerated test development, expanded laboratory testing capacity, and established widespread point-of-care testing, the United States does not have a plan to rapidly respond, to develop, manufacture, deploy, and sustain diagnostic testing at a national scale. To address this gap, we are proposing a that describes the steps that are urgently needed to prepare for future infectious disease emergencies, as well as the actions we must take at the first signs of such' events.

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Objectives: To investigate if there has been an increase in peanut foreign body aspirations (FBA) in children since the publication of the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) trial, which revealed that early exposure to peanut-containing foods prevented peanut allergies in children at risk of atopic disease.

Methods: Retrospective chart reviews were conducted separately at two pediatric institutions. Institutions One and Two reviewed children less than 7 years old who underwent bronchoscopy for FBA over ten-year periods between January 2007 and September 2017 and November 2008 and May 2018, respectively.

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