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Demographic and clinical trends of young breast cancer patients from the national cancer database: disproportionate effect on minority populations.
Breast Cancer Res Treat
January 2025
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, 8700 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA.
Purpose: There is an increasing incidence of young breast cancer (YBC) patients with uncertainty surrounding the factors and patterns that are contributing.
Methods: We obtained characteristics and survival data from 206,156 YBC patients (≤ 40 years of age) diagnosed between 2005 and 2019 from the National Cancer Database (NCDB). Patients were subdivided into two comparison groups based on year of diagnosis (2005-2009, Old vs.
Measuring the uptake of clinic-based HIV treatment and prevention services following HIV testing and referral at private pharmacies in Kenya.
BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, USA.
Background: Despite their ubiquity across sub-Saharan Africa, private pharmacies are underutilized for HIV service delivery beyond the sale of HIV self-test kits. To understand what uptake of HIV prevention and treatment services might look like if private pharmacies offered clients free HIV self-testing and referral to clinic-based HIV services, we conducted a pilot study in Kenya.
Methods: At 20 private pharmacies in Kisumu County, Kenya, pharmacy clients (≥ 18 years) purchasing sexual health-related products (e.
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature.
Stud Hist Philos Sci
January 2025
Colby College, 4550 Mayflower Hill, Lovejoy 247, Waterville, ME, 04901, USA. Electronic address:
In this paper, I defend a non-mechanistic interpretation of Kant's philosophy of nature. My interpretation contradicts the robust tradition of reading Kant as a mechanist about nature - or as someone who endorses the view that we can know the internally purposive causality characteristic of organisms has no place in nature. By attending closely to Kant's remarks about the possibility of internal purposiveness in nature and to key premises from Kant's arguments in the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment, we shall see that it is not only plausible, but preferable, to believe that internally purposive things (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetaRehabVerse: The Great Opportunity to Put the Person's Functioning and Participation at the Center of Healthcare.
Neurorehabil Neural Repair
January 2025
Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy.
Background And Objective: The metaverse refers to a digital realm accessible via internet connections using virtual reality and augmented reality glasses for promoting a new era of social rehabilitation. It represents the next-generation mobile computing platform expected to see widespread utilization in the future. In the context of rehabilitation, the metaverse is envisioned as a novel approach to enhance the treatment of human functioning exploiting the "synchronized brains" potential exacerbated by social interactions in virtual scenarios.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurveillance of drug prescribing: why outliers miss their targets - a qualitative study.
BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Institute of General Practice/Family Medicine, Philipps-University of Marburg, Karl-Von-Frisch-Straße 4, 35043, Marburg, Germany.
Background: Rising costs are a challenge for healthcare systems. To keep expenditure for drugs under control, in many healthcare systems, drug prescribing is continuously monitored. The Bavarian Drug Agreement (German: Wirkstoffvereinbarung or WSV) for the ambulatory sector in Bavaria (the federal state of Germany) was developed for this purpose.
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