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ACS ES T Water
January 2025
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to have a devastating effect on the well-being of Ukrainians and their environment. We evaluated a major environmental hazard caused by the war: the potential for groundwater contamination in proximity to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). We quantified groundwater vulnerability with the DRASTIC index, which was originally developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and has been used at various locations worldwide to assess relative pollution potential.
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January 2025
Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Department, Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
Medical facilities are civilian objects specially protected by international humanitarian law. Despite the need for systematic documentation of the effects of war on medical facilities for judiciary accountability, current methods for surveilling damage to protected civilian objects during ongoing armed conflict are insufficient. Satellite imagery damage assessment confers significant possibilities for investigating patterns of war.
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December 2024
Health Policy and Management Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Institute of Public Health, Skawinska 8 Str., Krakow 31-066, Poland. Electronic address:
Background: The migration of healthcare professionals is common phenomenon and shows upwards trends. Poland, which used to be a source country with marginal immigration, has in the past few years received more immigrants due to the simplified access to the labour market for professionals from outside the European Union. We aimed to analyse the immigration of healthcare workforce to Poland with an emphasis on legislative changes regarding the right to practice of medical personnel from outside the EU (mainly from Ukraine).
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January 2025
Educational and Scientific Center (ESC) "Institute of Biology and Medicine", Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Background: The search for early and minimally invasive diagnostic approaches to pancreatic cancer (PC) remains an important issue. One of the most promising directions is to find a sensitive key in the metabolic changes during widespread causes of PC, i.e.
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January 2025
Department of Tuberculosis Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Background: The 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation triggered a refugee crisis, affecting the multidrug-/rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB) prevalence in neighbouring countries. This study examines the epidemiological trends and characteristics of MDR/RR-TB patients in Poland, focusing on the relative contribution of Ukrainian refugees.
Methods: Data from the Polish National Tuberculosis Registry and EPIC Project database, covering MDR/RR-TB cases reported between 2010 and Q1 2024, were analysed.
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