Publications by authors named "Allison Lale"
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- * A pause in vaccine use was recommended by the CDC and FDA on April 13, 2021, due to rare reports of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), leading to emergency meetings by ACIP to assess safety.
- * By December 2021, after ongoing evaluations of safety data, ACIP recommended preferring mRNA vaccines over the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for those 18 and older, while noting that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine might be suitable in certain
Background: Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) is a potentially life-threatening condition associated with adenoviral-vectored COVID-19 vaccination. It presents similarly to spontaneous heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Twelve cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis after vaccination with the Ad26.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) with thrombocytopenia, a rare and serious condition, has been described in Europe following receipt of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (Oxford/AstraZeneca), which uses a chimpanzee adenoviral vector. A mechanism similar to autoimmune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) has been proposed. In the US, the Ad26.
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- About 200 species of weeds are responsible for over 90% of crop losses, and they make up less than 1% of all plant species, indicating limited evolutionary paths to becoming weeds.
- Research on weedy radish, using genetic markers from 34 populations, aimed to determine its evolutionary origins and how it adapts to agricultural environments.
- Findings indicate that weedy radish is genetically closer to native populations rather than escaped crops or hybrids and shows accelerated flowering times, suggesting quick adaptation to the disturbances of farming.
Importance: National anatomic triage criteria prescribe specific transport rules for injured patients. However, there is limited information about patients with firearm-related injuries undertriaged to nondesignated facilities (ie, hospitals without specialized trauma teams or units), including what clinical outcomes are achieved and how many are transferred to a higher level of care. Without these data, it is difficult to make informed regional or national policy decisions about triage practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To identify risk factors for port infections within 30 days of placement.
Material And Methods: A retrospective chart review of port placements from 2002-2009 was conducted. Patients who had port removals secondary to infection within the first 30 days of placement were included.
Background: Most private academic medical centers are located in underserved areas, yet fiscal pressures have led many to struggle with balancing their commitment to surrounding communities with other missions.
Objective: To explore stakeholders' views regarding the ethical, legal, and financial obligations of private academic medical centers to their surrounding neighborhoods.
Design, Participants, And Measures: QualitatiVe analysis of key informant interviews during 2008 with medical students, faculty and community physicians, administrators, and community health leaders at a large urban academic medical center.
Weedy species with wide geographical distributions may face strong selection to adapt to new environments, which can lead to adaptive genetic differentiation among populations. However, genetic drift, particularly due to founder effects, will also commonly result in differentiation in colonizing species. To test whether selection has contributed to trait divergence, we compared differentiation at eight microsatellite loci (measured as F(ST)) to differentiation of quantitative floral and phenological traits (measured as Q(ST)) of wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) across populations from three continents.
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