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Global Health
January 2025
Department of Global Health Hans Rosling Center, University of Washington, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
Background: The Covid pandemic and its aftermath have triggered new alarm and social unrest across the Global South over the deepening international debt crisis that now threatens to derail Universal Health Coverage (UHC), other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), future pandemic preparedness, and global warming mitigation. The recent Globalization and Health article by Alex Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs (May 2024), "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance", offers a meticulously quantified rendering of the social costs imposed by the crisis and takes aim at IMF solutions. They advocate for a rejection of IMF austerity programs and offer a valuable prescription for change through the International Labor Organization's "Universal Social Protection" concept.
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January 2025
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
A 35-year-old woman with thyroid eye disease (TED) was found to have autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type II (APS-II) 1 year after developing symptoms of this rare syndrome, during which she underwent 8 emergency department visits before receiving a targeted endocrinology workup. Thyroid disease is the second most common autoimmune syndrome associated with APS-II after primary adrenal insufficiency. Identification of this syndrome is critical as it can be life-threatening if left untreated.
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December 2024
Hematology Unit with BMT, A.O.U. Policlinico "G.Rodolico-San Marco", 95123 Catania, Italy.
Hematological emergencies are critical medical conditions that require immediate attention due to their rapid progression and life-threatening nature. As various examples, hypercalcemia, often associated with cancers such as multiple myeloma, can lead to severe neurological and cardiac dysfunction. Hyperleukocytosis, common in acute myeloid leukemias, increases the risk of leukostasis and multiorgan failure.
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January 2025
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside.
The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to the mental health and well-being (MHW) of adolescents. The present study aimed to explore how parent-adolescent conversations may have protected (or threatened) adolescent mental health during the first year of the pandemic. We examined how parents and adolescents discussed MHW together and the influence of parents' affective conversational climate on changes in adolescent anxiety/depression over time.
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October 2024
Radboud Institute for Culture & History, Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Today, American tech actors express optimistic ideas about how to fix the Earth and halt climate change. Such "green" initiatives have in common that they capture the world in systems and propose large systemic, and mostly technological, solutions. Because of their reliance on techno-fixes, representatives of Silicon Valley express an ideology of ecomodernism, which believes that human progress can be "decoupled" from environmental decline.
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