Publications by authors named "L Rock"
Recent years have seen significant positive changes and developments in oral health-related policy and data on oral health and oral health care in Canada. Simultaneously, on the international stage, the momentum for oral health and related research continues to build. These changes have led to an initiative to create Canada's first National Oral Health Research Strategy (NOHRS), which was recently published by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (Allison and Rock 2024).
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- The Choosing Wisely (CW) guidelines suggest that women aged 70 and older with certain types of breast cancer shouldn’t need a specific test called sentinel lymph node biopsy during surgery.
- Researchers looked at 238 women with breast cancer who followed these guidelines and had a special test called MammaPrint done.
- They found that the results from MammaPrint didn’t help in deciding if the women needed the lymph node test, and older age was more important in predicting if there were cancerous nodes.
There is a longstanding debate about the role of nitrogen (N) vs phosphorus (P) in limiting primary production in lakes and whether co-nutrient limitation should be considered for managing eutrophication. We evaluated nutrient limitation and eutrophication at a subcontinental scale. Using U.
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