Publications by authors named "Madden T"

Objective: To measure current levels and experiences of food and water security in Walgett to guide a community-led program and to provide a baseline measure.

Design: A community-led cross-sectional survey conducted in April 2022 by trained local researchers.

Setting: Walgett, a regional town in NSW, Australia.

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Background: Yttrium-90 FF-21101 (Y-FF-21101) is a radiopharmaceutical that targets P-cadherin as a therapy against solid tumors. A previously reported, first-in-human study determined that a dose of 25 mCi/m was safe, and a patient with clear cell carcinoma of the ovary achieved a complete response. In this article, the authors report the results of Y-FF-21101 treatment in an ovarian carcinoma expansion cohort and in patients with selected solid tumors who had known high P-cadherin expression.

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Objective: To evaluate implementation of a patient decision aid for symptomatic uterine fibroid management to improve shared decision-making at five clinical settings across the United States.

Methods: We used a type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation stepped-wedge design and the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance (RE-AIM) planning and evaluation framework. We conducted clinician training, monthly reach tracking with feedback to site clinical leads, patient and clinician surveys, and visit audio-recordings.

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  • Tissue clearing is a science method that has been around for over 100 years, but it’s still changing and improving.
  • Choosing the right tissue clearing method can be hard because there are many different protocols, each with pros and cons depending on the situation.
  • To help scientists, a new online resource called T-CLEARE (Tissue CLEAring protocol REpository) has been created to share details and experiences about various tissue clearing methods and their results.
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  • Fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus that can negatively affect quality of life, prompting the need for personalized treatment options and better communication tools for shared decision-making among patients and healthcare providers.* -
  • A user-centered approach was used to develop two conversation aids—one text-based and one picture-enhanced—through stakeholder focus groups and user-testing interviews, with efforts made to translate them into Spanish simultaneously.* -
  • Initial feedback from focus groups and user-testing showed the conversation aids were well-received, but ongoing implementation revealed the need for significant updates to reflect new treatment information and accommodate stakeholder suggestions.*
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Aims: Researchers were invited by Aboriginal leaders to collaborate on this study which aimed to assess food intake in the Walgett Aboriginal community to inform long-term community-led efforts to improve food and water security and nutrition.

Methods: Aboriginal adults living in or near Walgett, a remote community in north-west NSW, Australia, completed an adapted Menzies Remote Short-item Dietary Assessment Tool, which was administered verbally and face-to-face in early 2022. Aboriginal people were involved in the survey design, training and collection, and analysis of data.

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Objective: To explore differences in demographic characteristics and telehealth usability between patients who chose video versus telephone for telehealth contraceptive counseling.

Study Design: This was a secondary analysis of a prospective cohort comparing the interpersonal quality of contraceptive counseling between in-person and telehealth visits at a single Title X-funded clinic. Before the clinical visit, a non-clinician counselor provided structured contraceptive counseling based on patients' preferred modality.

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  • Zoonotic coronaviruses cause severe infections and high mortality, with SARS-CoV-2 being the most deadly despite MERS-CoV having a higher fatality rate.
  • Researchers are developing a new series of antiviral inhibitors targeting coronavirus 3CL, which show promising potency and low toxicity.
  • High-resolution crystal structures of these inhibitors help understand their binding mechanisms, guiding further optimization for effective treatment.
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. Propose a highly automated treatment plan re-optimization strategy suitable for online adaptive proton therapy. The strategy includes a rapid re-optimization method that generates quality replans and a novel solution that efficiently addresses the planning constraint infeasibility issue that can significantly prolong the re-optimization process.

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Objective: To compare the incidence of expulsion for different copper intrauterine device (IUD) shapes.

Study Design: We conducted a secondary analysis of the ongoing, prospective, non-interventional European Active Surveillance Study on LCS12 (EURAS-LCS12). Users of newly inserted IUDs were recruited in 10 European countries via a network of approximately 1200 clinicians.

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FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have clinical efficacy for patients with FLT3-mutated AML (acute myeloid leukemia), but their impact is limited by resistance in the setting of monotherapy and by tolerability problems when used in combination therapies. FF-10101 is a novel compound that covalently binds to a cysteine residue near the active site of FLT3, irreversibly inhibiting receptor signaling. It is effective against most FLT3 activating mutations, and, unlike other inhibitors, is minimally vulnerable to resistance induced by FLT3 ligand.

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. Clinical outcomes after proton therapy have shown some variability that is not fully understood. Different approaches have been suggested to explain the biological outcome, but none has yet provided a comprehensive and satisfactory rationale for observed toxicities.

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  • A first experimental verification of dose-averaged linear energy transfer (LET) optimized treatment plans for proton therapy was conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital using a microdosimeter.
  • Three treatment plans for ependymoma were designed and optimized to reduce LET-weighted doses in the brain stem while still effectively targeting the tumor.
  • The results showed an average reduction in LET in the brain stem by 12%, 19%, and 4%, respectively, for different plan types, confirming that the optimized doses aligned with both simulations and treatment planning system calculations.
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Background: FURVA, a randomised, double-blind Phase II trial, investigated whether the addition of vandetanib to fulvestrant improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with an aromatase inhibitor(AI)-resistant advanced breast cancer.

Methods: Postmenopausal women with oestrogen receptor-positive (ER+ve)/HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, who experienced disease progression on an AI, were randomised (1:1) to fulvestrant 500 mg (Q28) with vandetanib 300 mg od (f + v) or placebo (f + p) until disease progression or discontinuation. The primary endpoint was PFS; secondary endpoints included overall survival (OS) and the influence of REarranged during Transfection (RET) signalling on outcomes.

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Introduction: There is an urgent need to determine the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of novel antiviral treatments for COVID-19 in vaccinated patients in the community at increased risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19.

Methods And Analysis: PANORAMIC is a UK-wide, open-label, prospective, adaptive, multiarm platform, randomised clinical trial that evaluates antiviral treatments for COVID-19 in the community. A master protocol governs the addition of new antiviral treatments as they become available, and the introduction and cessation of existing interventions via interim analyses.

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Objective: Currently available contraceptive methods do not meet the needs of all users. We sought to explore preferences of potential end-users regarding an on-demand, non-hormonal female contraceptive currently under development, using a web-based survey.

Study Design: We recruited respondents for an exploratory survey via web link on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk).

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  • This study evaluated the quality of contraceptive counseling between telehealth and in-person visits at a Title X-funded clinic, where patients chose their counseling mode when scheduling.
  • Out of 360 eligible patients, 296 completed surveys, revealing high-quality counseling ratings in both telehealth (75%) and in-person (80%) without significant differences.
  • However, telehealth patients were less likely to have follow-up clinician visits compared to those who attended in-person sessions, suggesting that telephone counseling may be more appealing or accessible for some individuals.
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Purpose: The primary goal of this study was to examine changes in peak insole force and cumulative weighted peak force (CWPF)/km with increased step rate in collegiate runners. The secondary goal was to determine whether sacral acceleration correlates with insole force when increasing step rate.

Methods: Twelve collegiate distance runners ran 1000 m outdoors at 3.

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Objectives: To measure the change in contraceptive knowledge after interaction with a web-based contraception education resource in an online cohort of potential users.

Study Design: We conducted a cross-sectional online survey of reproductive-aged, biologically female respondents using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Respondents provided demographic characteristics and responded to 32 contraceptive knowledge questions.

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Objectives: To explore young women's preferences for contraceptive education to inform the development of an educational resource and to pilot test the resource with patients and clinicians.

Methods: We performed a mixed-methods study to elicit preferences for contraceptive educational resources among patients, develop an online resource, and pilot test the resource with clinicians and patients to assess feasibility, systems usability, and contraceptive knowledge.

Results: Forty-one women aged 16-29 completed in-depth interviews: they preferred an online format which was recommended by a clinician, presented contraceptive methods in order of effectiveness, and contained information from experts and experiences from individual users.

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  • The NHLBI BioData CatalystⓇ (BDC) is a special online place where researchers can easily find and work with large sets of health data.
  • It offers tools and features to help scientists study health problems related to the heart, lungs, blood, and sleep, making research faster and more effective.
  • BDC also helped speed up research on COVID-19 and supports a program to help new scientists make important discoveries.
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The high morbidity and mortality associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, the etiological agent of COVID-19, has had a major impact on global public health. Significant progress has been made in the development of an array of vaccines and biologics, however, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants and breakthrough infections are an ongoing major concern. Furthermore, there is an existing paucity of small-molecule host and virus-directed therapeutics and prophylactics that can be used to counter the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and any emerging and re-emerging coronaviruses.

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