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J Med Internet Res
December 2024
Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States.
Background: Health misinformation is abundant online and becoming an increasingly pressing concern for both oncology practitioners and patients with cancer. On social media platforms, including the popular audiovisual app TikTok, the flourishing alternative health industry is further contributing to the spread of misleading and often harmful information, endangering patients' health and outcomes and sowing distrust of the medical community. The prevalence of false and potentially dangerous treatments on a platform that is used as a quasi-search engine by young people poses a serious risk to the health of patients with cancer.
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November 2024
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Intensive observations were collected in a wide range of synoptic weather conditions to evaluate variability in the intra-urban heat island on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte between February 2023 and June 2023. An easily reproducible bicycle-based mobile transit route around the university was traversed during 20 afternoon and 20 evening periods. The magnitude of observed temperature range from an individual data collection period is defined as the campus urban heat island intensity, with areas having more anthropogenic modification also having higher temperatures.
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October 2024
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Raymond Poincaré Hospital, Garches, France.
J Dent Sci
October 2024
Department of Dentistry, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan.
Many people have associated e-cigarettes with adjectives such as trendy and cool, and regarded vaping as "a safer alternative to cigarette smoking". Compared with the conventional cigarettes, the public is less familiar with the dangers of e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes produce an aerosol by heating the e-liquid (usually comprising nicotine, flavorings, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and other additives).
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