Publications by authors named "C Penney"
Background: Residents of rural areas have poorer health status, less healthy behaviours and higher mortality than urban dwellers, issues which are commonly addressed in primary care. Strengthening primary care may be an important tool to improve the health status of rural populations.
Objective: Synthesize and categorize studies that examine interventions to improve rural primary care.
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- - Perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (-PFCAs) are becoming recognized as new environmental pollutants that pose detection challenges.
- - The small collision cross sections (CCS) of -PFCAs hinder their identification through ion mobility techniques.
- - Research suggests that internal hydrogen bridging in -PFCA ions is responsible for their small CCS, providing a pathway for developing improved identification methods for these pollutants.
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- - The study compared two groups of participants from a musculoskeletal ultrasound course: one that attended in-person classes and another that took the course online due to COVID-19 restrictions.
- - Both groups completed similar amounts of homework and had comparable quality in their submitted ultrasound images, with no significant differences in outcomes or satisfaction levels.
- - The findings suggest that online learning for this specific course was as effective as in-person training, indicating its potential as a viable educational method even after the pandemic.
The prognosis for metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma (mGAC) remains poor. Gene alterations in receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) such as epidermal growth factor receptor and their downstream effectors including catalytic subunit alpha of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase are common in mGAC. Targeted RTK and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) treatments have demonstrated clinical benefits in other solid tumours and are key potential targets for clinical development against mGAC given the presence of recurrent alterations in these pathways.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is commonly characterized by joint space narrowing. High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) provides unparalleled visualization and quantification of joint space in extremity joints commonly affected by RA, such as the 2nd and 3rd metacarpophalangeal joints. However, age, sex, and obesity can also influence joint space narrowing.
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