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Tunis Med
December 2024
Department of Pediatric Medicine B, Béchir Hamza Children's Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis el Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia.
Introduction: The ingestion of foreign body (FB) is a common problem in paediatrics. Children are curious by nature and tend to explore environment by inserting objects into their mouths.
Aim: To update our epidemiological and clinical data and adapt clinical management in order to limit morbidity associated with this fairly frequent accidental pathology.
BMC Cancer
November 2024
Department of Prevention and Information, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Background: Today the prerequisites exist to initiate risk-stratified screening according to a woman's individual risk of breast cancer as opposed to existing one-size-fits-all age-based programmes. This presupposes that the women accept having their personal risk score estimated and their screening intervals changed accordingly. Risk-stratified screening has not yet been implemented in any country, but in the future many European countries will very likely move towards more personalized screening.
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November 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Twenty years ago, the British Journal of Psychiatry published an editorial regarding racism and psychiatry. Three decades ago, the journal published a lecture by Professor Michael Sheperd about Kraepelin's contributions to racist degeneration theories. A century ago, Albert Einstein visited the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, where he was hosted by Juliano Moreira [1872-1933], one of the most distinguished Brazilian scientists of that time.
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July 2024
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada.
Fred Brauer was an eminent mathematician who studied dynamical systems, especially differential equations. He made many contributions to mathematical epidemiology, a field that is strongly connected to data, but he always chose to avoid data analysis. Nevertheless, he recognized that fitting models to data is usually necessary when attempting to apply infectious disease transmission models to real public health problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMarieke Caljé-van den Assem was set on a career in management consultancy when, returning from a night out at university, she found her beloved dog covered in blood and needing a vet…the rest is history.
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