Publications by authors named "Monica Noriega"
As a result of the Department of Homeland Security's zero-tolerance policy (ZTP), over 5,000 children were separated from their parents at the U.S. southern border from 2017-2021, with over 1,000 still lacking confirmed reunifications.
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- - Since 2014, around 7.3 million Venezuelan migrants/refugees have fled their country, with female migrants facing heightened risks of discrimination and violence, especially during pregnancy, which has been under-researched.
- - In a study utilizing Spryng.io’s sensemaking tool, 9339 micronarratives were collected from 9116 participants across Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, focusing on the experiences of 231 pregnant migrants identified within the data.
- - Results showed that many of these women are low-income, often already mothers, and face significant challenges, including xenophobia from healthcare providers, various forms of violence, and lack of essential resources, highlighting the urgent need for improved support and programming for this
U.S. society has witnessed and experienced the impact and suffering caused by the racial pandemic within the COVID-19 viral pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the feasibility of acute and chronic toxicity in patients suitable for accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) in a single 18 Gy fraction with multicatheter high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy, as well as cosmetic and oncological outcomes.
Material And Methods: Between September 2014 and March 2016, twenty consecutive patients with low-risk invasive and ductal carcinoma in situ were treated with interstitial multicatheter HDR brachytherapy in a single 18 Gy fraction.
Results: Median age was 63.