Globally, insects have been impacted by climate change, with bumble bees in particular showing range shifts and declining species diversity with global warming. This suggests heat tolerance is a likely factor limiting the distribution and success of these bees. Studies have shown high intraspecific variance in bumble bee thermal tolerance, suggesting biological and environmental factors may be impacting heat resilience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2020, the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) was awarded a contract with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to begin coordination of a new National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR), which would build on the existing infrastructure among both Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) and National Program of Cancer Registries central registries. NCI and NAACCR planned to use the NCCR to securely match children across registries and with external data sources such as genomic data, medical and pharmacy claims, and other novel sources for residential history, financial toxicity and social determinants of health to build a robust database for pediatric cancer reporting and research. These linkages will enable researchers to address issues surrounding late effects of cancer treatment, recurrence, subsequent malignant neoplasms, and other critical outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg
November 2023
Introduction: The United Kingdom (UK) injectables market has been growing rapidly with a lack of robust regulation and to date, no information regarding the profile of practitioners has been published.
Aim: We aim to provide a descriptive and qualitative analysis of the advertised practitioners in the United Kingdom.
Methods: We performed a systematic search using the internet search engine Google to perform a qualitative descriptive analysis of aesthetic practitioners in the UK.
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg
September 2023
Background: Currently, safe practice in the UK esthetics industry is largely reliant on self-regulatory bodies. If these bodies do not maintain high standards of safety guidelines and properly accredit practitioners, patient safety may be at risk. To our knowledge, no studies have addressed cosmetic self-regulatory bodies and their websites on Google, the most commonly used information source.
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