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Cureus
December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, JPN.
Acute ischemic stroke, a medical emergency caused by reduced cerebral blood flow, results in brain cell damage. While commonly associated with older individuals, strokes can also occur in young and middle-aged adults, posing significant socio-economic and health challenges due to the long-term impact of the condition. This poses significant socio-economic and health challenges because stroke is a leading cause of disability and mortality.
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January 2025
Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco, MC.
Pediatricians and pediatric trainees in North America are increasingly involved in caring for children and adolescents in or from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In many LMICs, hazardous environmental exposures-notably outdoor and household air pollution, water pollution, lead, pesticides, and other manufactured chemicals-are highly prevalent and account for twice the proportion of disease and deaths among young children as in North America. Climate change will likely worsen these exposures.
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January 2025
Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco, MC.
Pediatricians and pediatric trainees in North America are increasingly involved in caring for children and adolescents in or from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In many LMICs, toxic environmental exposures-notably outdoor and household air pollution, water pollution, lead, hazardous waste disposal, pesticides, and other manufactured chemicals-are highly prevalent and account for twice as great a proportion of disease and deaths among young children as in North America. Climate change will likely worsen these exposures.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, JPN.
Background: Oral propranolol therapy is currently the first choice for infants with infantile hemangiomas (IHs) requiring systemic treatment. This study aims to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of oral propranolol therapy for IHs and to assess the role of a multidisciplinary medical team in supporting optimal treatment.
Materials And Methods: Clinical data were retrospectively reviewed from medical records in 150 Japanese infants with IH treated with propranolol orally at Toranomon Hospital.
Health care workers experience substantial chronic stress, burnout, and mental distress, and the COVID-19 pandemic might have exacerbated these conditions. To identify ways to improve mental health care-seeking among this population, mental health symptoms, care-seeking, and self-reported barriers to seeking mental health care among U.S.
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