Real-world safety data for the Pfizer BNT162b2 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: historical cohort study.

Objective: The Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine showed a reassuring safety profile in clinical trials, but real-world data are scarce. Bell's palsy, herpes zoster, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and other neurological complaints in proximity to vaccination have received special public attention. We compared their rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.

Involvement of the family physician in the care of chemotherapy-treated patients with cancer: patients' perspectives.

Purpose: Increasing numbers of patients receive active ambulatory oncology treatment over prolonged periods of time. Many of these patients suffer from additional comorbidities and require comprehensive medical care. We aimed to assess the perception of patients with cancer regarding the role of the family physician and the oncologist in their care during times of active cancer treatment.

Incomplete response to colchicine in M694V homozygote FMF patients.

Background: Previous studies have shown that with prophylactic colchicine 65% of the patients suffering from Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) will show a complete response, 30% a partial response and about 5% will show minimum or no response. These studies were performed before the isolation of the disease gene. Genotyping enables us to study the response rates according to specific mutations.

[Adolescent health status: new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Israeli-born].

Background: The relationship between immigration and health has unique aspects during adolescence because of the psychosocial aspects of health status at this age.

Aims: To provide data on the physical and emotional health, risk behavior and services utilization of the new immigrant youth from the Former Soviet Union, compared with long-term Israeli residents and Israeli-born youth.

Methods: A survey was performed among Israeli-born and former Soviet Union-born pupils from middle and high schools living in Rishon-le-Zion.

Burn prevention programs for children: do they reduce burn-related hospitalizations?

Background: Severe burns in children can result in prolonged suffering, disability, disfigurement, and in impaired physical and mental development. Hospitalization rates of children with burns are much higher than for children with other trauma. Therefore, various child burn prevention programs have been implemented, but their efficacy has been evaluated only by assessment of knowledge or satisfaction rather than evaluating actual changes in burn-related hospitalizations.

My home is my castle! Or is it? Hospitalizations following home injury in Israel, 1997-2001.

Background: Although the home is perceived to be a safe haven, it is a scene of numerous injuries.

Objectives: To characterize home injury in Israel, the victims, injury circumstances and outcomes, and to identify groups at high risk for injury in order to focus future interventions and thus effectively prevent these injuries and their associated hospitalizations.

Methods: We analyzed 5 year records (1997-2001) from the National Trauma Registry of all patients arriving at eight trauma centers following home injury and admitted to hospital, transferred to another medical center, or died in the emergency department.

What picture is worth a thousand words? A comparative evaluation of a burn prevention programme by type of medium in Israel.

Burns are associated with longer hospital stay, permanent disfigurement and emotional stress disorders, and represent a health problem, especially among economically and socially deprived populations, such as the Bedouin population in Israel, hence the importance of intervention programmes. The objective of this research was to examine the extent to which the effect of a visual one-session burn prevention programme was determined by the type of medium used. We also examined the possibility that fear motivates action only when someone feels confident in his/her ability to control the threat.

[Confidential healthcare for Israeli adolescents: towards evolution of specific legislation].

Background: Despite its critical importance, the issue of confidentiality in the provision of adolescent health care has not been specifically clarified by Israeli law.

Objective: To review the conflict between the needs of adolescents, attitudes of the medical community and daily medical practice, and to promote legislation that would allow health care providers to treat adolescents without parental consent under certain circumstances.

The Current Conflict: A major key to the productive encounter between the adolescent and the health professional is the confidence that sensitive information, communicated between them, will not be divulged to anyone, including parents.

[Adolescent pregnancy in Israel: a methodology for rate estimation and analysis of characteristics and trends].

Problem: Teenage pregnancies are frequently unplanned, the young pregnant woman being often unmarried. These pregnancies occasionally end in induced abortion. Teenage pregnancy, especially when unintended, is correlated with negative effects for the child and the mother.

Community-based adolescent health services in Israel: from theory to practice.

Despite their engagement in health-risk behaviors and their health-related concerns, adolescents have the lowest rate of health service utilization of any age group. Time constraints during routine medical encounters generally leave little opportunity for professional screening for health-risk behaviors or for discussing psychosocial problems. In addition, providers express low levels of perceived competency in areas such as sexuality, eating disorders or drug abuse.