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Hernia
October 2024
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
Tob Control
June 2024
Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, and School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Pasadena, California, USA.
Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use has increased since e-cigarettes were introduced to the market nearly 20 years ago. Researchers continue to conduct studies to understand the health risks and benefits of e-cigarettes to inform health education and promotion efforts as well as public policy. Studies funded by the tobacco industry examining the potential risks and benefits of e-cigarettes have also been conducted and are sometimes published in the scientific literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTranspl Infect Dis
November 2024
University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
After two multistate outbreaks of allograft tissue-transmitted tuberculosis (TB) due to viable bone, evidence-based donor screening criteria were developed to decrease the risk of transmission to recipients. Exclusionary criteria, commentary, and references supporting the criteria are provided, based on literature search and expert opinion. Both exposure and reactivation risk factors were considered, either for absolute exclusion or for exclusion in combination with multiple risk factors.
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April 2024
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, 07065, USA.
Medication administration via enteral feeding tubes (EFT) is a necessary practice for patients unable to swallow oral dosage forms due to a medical condition or treatment that affects the ability to swallow or the function of the gastrointestinal tract. Off-label administration of oral drug products via EFT raises concerns for pharmaceutical sponsors, regulators, and healthcare practitioners (HCPs) because of the potential risks this practice introduces to both the patient and the caregiver. These risks can be mitigated by generating data-supported instructions that patients and HCPs can use to ensure safe and accurate administration of oral drug products via EFT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Rural Black participants need effective intervention to achieve better blood pressure (BP) control.
Objective: Among Black rural adults with persistently uncontrolled hypertension attending primary care clinics, to determine whether peer coaching (PC), practice facilitation (PF), or both (PCPF) are superior to enhanced usual care (EUC) in improving BP control.
Design, Setting, And Participants: A cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted in 69 rural primary care practices across Alabama and North Carolina between September 23, 2016, and September 26, 2019.
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