8 results match your criteria: "The University of Massachusetts at Amherst[Affiliation]"
Manufactured Chemicals and Children's Health - The Need for New Law.
N Engl J Med
January 2025
From Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, MA (D.A.W.); the University of Maryland at College Park, College Park (M.C.); Washington, DC (D.A.A.); the Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (C.B., T.C.C., C.G., K.S., E.M.W., A.Y., P.J.L.); the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (A.B., T.R.S., J.C.S.); the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC (L.S.B.); the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (T.A.B.); the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell (K.G., J.A.T.); the United Nations Environment Program, Nairobi (P.K.); the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center, Ramazzini Institute, Bologna, Italy (D.M.); the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst (Y.P.); the Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco (H.R., P.J.L.); the Innovation Lab, Client Earth, London (A.R.); the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona (K.S.); the University of Texas School of Law, Austin (W.W.); the Technology and Society Laboratory, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland (Z.W.); and the Environmental Research and Translation for Health Center and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (T.J.W.).
Exacerbation of COVID-19 mortality by the fragmented United States healthcare system: A retrospective observational study.
Lancet Reg Health Am
August 2022
Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
Background: Before widespread vaccination, the United States was disproportionately affected by COVID-19 with a mortality rate several times that of other affluent societies. Comparing regions with different rates of health insurance, we assess how much of this excess mortality may be due to the relatively large population without health insurance.
Methods: We use daily surveillance data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stratified by region, age group, gender, and race in regression analysis of daily COVID-19 cases, hospitalization, and mortality.
Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina.
Am Econ Rev
November 2020
Deryugina: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and NBER; Molitor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and NBER. Thomas Lemieux was the coeditor for this article. We thank Amy Finkelstein, Don Fullerton, Matthew Gentzkow, Osea Giuntella, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Kaestner, Jonathan Ketcham, Matthew Notowidigdo, Julian Reif, Nicholas Sanders, David Slusky, and seminar participants at the ASSA Annual Meeting, the AERE Summer Conference, the Annual Health Econometrics Workshop, Arizona State University, the BFI Health Economics Initiative Annual Conference, Cornell University, East Carolina University, Georgia State University, the Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, the Illinois pERE seminar, Indiana University, the Junior Health Economics Summit, the London School of Economics, MHEC-X, the National University of Singapore, the CEPRA/NBER Workshop on Ageing and Health, the NBER EEE Spring Meeting, the NBER Summer Institute, SIEPR, the Symposium on Natural Resource Governance for Young Scholars, the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Virginia for helpful comments. Isabel Musse, Prakrati Thakur, Fan Wu, and Zhu Yang provided excellent research assistance. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers R21AG050795, P01AG005842, and R01AG053350. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
We follow Medicare cohorts to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on victims initially living in New Orleans. Including the initial shock, the hurricane improved eight-year survival by 2.07 percentage points.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModeling of Cell Nuclear Mechanics: Classes, Components, and Applications.
Cells
July 2020
Biology Department, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Cell nuclei are paramount for both cellular function and mechanical stability. These two roles of nuclei are intertwined as altered mechanical properties of nuclei are associated with altered cell behavior and disease. To further understand the mechanical properties of cell nuclei and guide future experiments, many investigators have turned to mechanical modeling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrelating nuclear morphology and external force with combined atomic force microscopy and light sheet imaging separates roles of chromatin and lamin A/C in nuclear mechanics.
Mol Biol Cell
July 2020
Department of Applied Physical Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
Nuclei are often under external stress, be it during migration through tight constrictions or compressive pressure by the actin cap, and the mechanical properties of nuclei govern their subsequent deformations. Both altered mechanical properties of nuclei and abnormal nuclear morphologies are hallmarks of a variety of disease states. Little work, however, has been done to link specific changes in nuclear shape to external forces.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCaregiver Training for Pediatric Home Parenteral Nutrition: A 5-Session Discharge Curriculum.
J Infus Nurs
May 2019
Boston Children's Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston, Massachusetts (Mss Gallotto, Rosa, Takvorian-Bené, McClelland, and Tascione); and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs Carey and Raphael). Mary Gallotto, BSN, RN, CPN, is a level 2 staff nurse in the home parenteral nutrition (HPN) program at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) with previous nursing experience working in hepatology and gastroenterology at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, Massachusetts. A graduate of Northeastern University, she is currently enrolled in a certification program for nursing education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Carolyn M. Rosa, BSN, RN, CPNP-BC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the HPN program at BCH. She was previously a nurse in inpatient liver and small bowel transplant and intestinal rehabilitation at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. She received a BSN at Villanova University in 2008. She also earned a certification as a pediatric nurse practitioner and a degree in public health nurse leadership as part of a dual degree program from the University of Virginia in 2012. Melissa Takvorian-Bené, BSN, RN, CPEN, is a level 2 staff nurse in the HPN program at BCH with previous nursing experience in the emergency department and inpatient nursing. She is a graduate of Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. Jennifer McClelland, MS, RN, FNP-BC, is a nurse practitioner in the HPN program at BCH. She was previously a nurse in inpatient liver and small bowel transplant and intestinal rehabilitation at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. She earned a BSN from Boston College and completed a graduate degree at Georgetown University. Christina Tascione, BA, is a level 2 program coordinator for the HPN program at BCH. She holds a bachelor's degree in health management and policy from the University of New Hampshire. Alexandra Carey, MD, is an attending gastroenterologist in BCH's Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, an instructor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and the associate director of the Center for Advance Rehabilitation (CAIR). She is also the director of BCH's Nutrition Laboratory. Dr Carey earned a BS from the University of Florida and a medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Bram P. Raphael, MD, is an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at BCH. He is the director of the hospital's HPN program.
To maximize safety and the patient experience, caregivers require intensive training to administer home parenteral nutrition (HPN) before initial hospital discharge. This article provides the rationale, best practices, and a template for caregiver predischarge HPN education provided by nurses. The standardized HPN discharge curriculum is outlined over 5 didactic and hands-on sessions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch Designs for Assessing the USDA’s Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs Outcomes, Part 2: Impact Evaluation of Demonstrations.
Nutr Today
January 2004
Biing-Hwan Lin, PhD, is an agricultural economist with the Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC.; David Smallwood, PhD, is the Deputy Director for Food Assistance Research with the Food and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.; William Hamilton, PhD, was a Vice President with Abt Associates, Inc.; he is now retired.; Peter H. Rossi, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
This is the second part of a 2-part article that summarizes a review of research designs for assessing the impact of the USDA’s food assistance and nutrition programs on nutrition and health. The first part focused on the research designs for evaluating ongoing national programs. Here, the random experiment and 3 quasi-experimental designs that can be used to evaluate the impacts of demonstration projects are reviewed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActomyosin promotes cell plate alignment and late lateral expansion in Tradescantia stamen hair cells.
Planta
March 2002
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Biology Department, 221 Morrill Science Center III, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Cytokinesis in higher-plant cells involves the formation of a cell plate in the interzone between the separating chromatids. The process is directed by the phragmoplast, an array of microtubules, actin filaments, and membranous elements. To determine if the role of actin in cytokinesis is dependent on myosin, we treated stamen hair cells of Tradescantia virginiana L.
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