Publications by authors named "J A Merlin"
Among people with substance use disorders (SUDs), chronic pain is among the most common comorbid chronic health conditions. Chronic pain increases risk for poor SUD treatment outcomes, including risk for overdose. Given rising overdose rates across North America, a renewed research focus has emerged to better understand the contribution and treatment of chronic pain in the context of an SUD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Opioids and benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed for cancer symptoms. In combination, they can increase the risk of adverse events, particularly for older adults with multimorbidity, who represent most patients with cancer. We aimed to understand cancer care providers' practices for opioid and benzodiazepine coprescribing and mitigating potential harms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPresence of microplastics during high rainfall events in the Cauvery River (South India): Ecological risk and cultural practices.
Environ Monit Assess
December 2024
Rivers directly support the development of a region/country; however, globally, these aquatic regions are impacted by recent human activity. During a rainfall event, we monitored the baseline information on the spatial variability of microplastics (MPs) in the Cauvery River in South India. Forty surface water samples from two selected sites were collected between 27 September and 16 October 2022 during the commencement of monsoon which indicates 69 and 43 pieces L of MPs, respectively.
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- Antibody-drug conjugates are a new class of cancer treatments that are becoming more widely used, but they come with various toxicities and complications that need to be managed, especially in emergencies.
- Common side effects include diarrhea, nausea, rash, and peripheral neuropathy, while severe conditions like interstitial lung disease and sinusoidal obstruction syndrome can pose serious health risks.
- Rare but critical issues include cardiac effects, ocular problems, and tumor lysis syndrome, which require careful monitoring and prompt medical intervention.
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- The study focuses on detecting multijet signatures from proton-proton collisions at a high energy of 13 TeV, analyzing a dataset totaling 128 fb^{-1}.
- A special data scouting method is utilized to pick out events with low combined momentum in jets.
- This research is pioneering in its investigation of electroweak particle production in R-parity violating supersymmetric models, particularly examining hadronically decaying mass-degenerate higgsinos, and it broadens the limits on the existence of R-parity violating top squarks and gluinos.