Equity-focused evaluations of existing healthcare system-level policies, clinical practices, and interventions are needed to identify factors that may narrow, or unintentionally widen, the racial disparity in cancer outcomes. We focus here on the evaluation of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols and their potential to promote equity in cancer care and outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Racial and ethnic disparities in genomic testing could exacerbate disparities in access to precision cancer therapies and survival-particularly in the context of lung cancer where genomic testing has been recommended for the past decade. However, prior studies assessing disparities in genomic testing have yielded mixed results.
Methods: We conducted a systemic review to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the use of genomic testing among lung cancer patients in the United States.
Over the last 30 years, many studies have surveyed weed vegetation on arable land. The 'Arable Weeds and Management in Europe' (AWME) database is a collection of 36 of these surveys and the associated management data. Here, we review the challenges associated with combining disparate datasets and explore some of the opportunities for future research that present themselves thanks to the AWME database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMagnesium complexes of phthalocyanines (Pcs) and their aza-analogues have a great potential in medical applications or fluorescence detection. They are known to demetallate to metal-free ligands in acidic environments, however, detailed investigation of this process and its possible prevention is lacking. In this work, a conversion of lipophilic and water-soluble magnesium complexes of Pcs and tetrapyrazinoporphyrazines (TPyzPzs) to metal-free ligands was studied in relation to the acidity of the environment (organic solvent, water) including the investigation of the role of delivery systems (microemulsion or liposomes) in improvement in their acido-stability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMale infertility refers to the inability to conceive a natural pregnancy in a fertile female, and approximately 15% of reproductive-aged couples worldwide face this problem. Several plants were used to treat fertility disorders and, among them, Lepidium meyenii, a folk medicament of Andean regions, is still used to enhance vitality and treat sterility in humans and domestic animals. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Though much research has been done on the cognitive profiles of children, the abilities of patients with SBM as they age into adulthood are not well understood.: Determine if adults with SBM have impairments in overall cognition, attention, executive function, and memory compared to typically developing adults or a standardized population mean.: A medical librarian composed a search of spina bifida, adults, and cognitive function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Determine the feasibility and utility of using a battery of tests utilized, so far, to assess neurological-cognitive functions in the typical adult population and identify the spectrum of these functions in adult SBM patients.
Methods: Prospective study in which 15 participants (mean age = 28.7 ± 8.
Background/Aims. Products of Lepidium meyenii Walp. (maca) are touted worldwide as an alimentary supplement to enhance fertility and restore hormonal balance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the physiological sequestration of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides by various carriers, interactions between peptides and protein tau appear to be pathological and involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A recent study reported increased Aβ-tau interactions in the neurons of AD patients.
Objective: We investigated the possibility that levels of Aβ-tau complexes in cerebrospinal fluid could be a prospective biomarker of AD, with greater sensitivity and specificity than Aβ1-42, tau, or phospho-tau individually.