Challenges and adjustments in maintaining health and well-being of older Asian immigrants in New Zealand: An integrative review.

Objective: There is a paucity of health-related research on older Asian immigrants in New Zealand. The aim of this review was to critically examine literature on the health and well-being of this population group.

Methods: An integrative literature review was conducted from December 2017 to February 2018.

Genetic predisposition to acute lymphocytic leukemia in American blacks. A Pediatric Oncology Group study.

Recent reports have shown an association between genes lying within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), particularly HLA and factor B (Bf), and acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in white children. The frequencies of Bf and complement component C4 phenotypes in 90 black American children with ALL were examined to determine if a genetic association existed. The Bf and C4 results for the black children with ALL were compared with frequencies in healthy black Americans from the same geographic region.

Anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy in children: a report of six cases.

Although anthracycline antibiotics are among the most useful chemotherapy agents, the risk of producing cardiomyopathy and the absence of a reliable noninvasive technique to predict subclinical cardiomyopathy remain a major problem. We retrospectively reviewed our experience with anthracyclines over a 5-year period. Cardiomyopathy developed in 6 of 112 patients (5.

Early death in acute leukemia in children.

Therapy for acute leukemia in children has improved dramatically in recent years so that early death is rare. A subset of patients with extreme elevation of the WBC at diagnosis have been noted to have a higher rate of early death. We reviewed our experience with acute leukemia in children retrospectively over a 10 year period to assess the incidence and outcome of this problem.

Improving the medical record for clinical oncology research by adaptation to a microcomputer.

In clinical oncology, much of the research is conducted in the milieu of patient care and the traditional medical record is used for collection of data. A clinical study manager reviewing medical records is frequently faced with problems such as omissions of data, illegible notes, and inconsistent locations of data within the various formats. At the Children's Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, we developed a microcomputer-based medical record system in an attempt to improve the quality of clinical research.