Viria V Bravo,
Teresa T Rodríguez,
Berna B van Wendel de Joode,
Nonato N Canto,
Gloria Ruth GR Calderón,
Miguel M Turcios,
Luis Armando LA Menéndez,
Winston W Mejía,
Anabel A Tatis,
Federico Z FZ Abrego,
Elba E de la Cruz and
Catharina C Wesseling
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We constructed quantitative indicators (kg active ingredient) for general pesticide use, associated health hazards, and compliance with international regulations. Central America imported 33 million kg active ingredient per year. Imports increased 33% during 2000-2004. Of 403 pesticides, 13 comprise...
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PMID: 21905395
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Worldwide, the burden of suffering to children caused by tobacco does not just originate from exposure to tobacco smoke or smoking, but includes exposure to tobacco-friendly media, poverty associated with money spent on tobacco, increased incidence of tobacco-related fires, and the harms related to c...
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PMID: 21821205
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Epidemic theory predicts that the vaccination threshold required to interrupt local transmission of an immunizing infection like measles depends only on the basic reproductive number and hence transmission rates. When the search for optimal strategies is expanded to incorporate economic constraints,...
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PMID: 21825129
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The aim of this study was to describe international enrollment and participation in National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored cardiovascular randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
RCTs provide the evidence base for major societal guidelines and profoundly influence...
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PMID: 21816301
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Tuberculosis continuous to be the world's most important infectious disease in addition to malaria and AIDS. One-third of world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Every tenth of those people will develop active tuberculosis in his or her lifetime. The global tuberculosis incide...
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PMID: 21728155
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Tuberculosis is the second most common cause of death from an infectious disease after HIV/AIDS and the leading cause of death from an infectious disease in HIV-co-infected patients. Currently, drug susceptible TB is treated with a four drug regimen given over a period of two months followed by two d...
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PMID: 21728158
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To determine more accurate regression formulas for estimating peak skin dose (PSD) from reference air kerma (RAK) or kerma-area product (KAP).
After grouping of the data from 21 procedures into 13 clinically similar groups, assessments were made of optimal clustering...
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PMID: 21859021
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In 2008, Macedonia adopted the Law on the Protection of Patients' Rights. This was a big step forward in the field of health care and regulation of patients' rights and responsibilities, as well as the rights and responsibilities of the health care providers. The Law introduces some new patients' rig...
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PMID: 21877464
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Roger A Fielding,
Bruno Vellas,
William J Evans,
Shalender Bhasin,
John E Morley,
Anne B Newman,
Gabor Abellan van Kan,
Sandrine Andrieu,
Juergen Bauer,
Denis Breuille,
Tommy Cederholm,
Julie Chandler,
Capucine De Meynard,
Lorenzo Donini,
Tamara Harris,
Aimo Kannt,
Florence Keime Guibert,
Graziano Onder,
Dimitris Papanicolaou,
Yves Rolland,
Daniel Rooks,
Cornel Sieber,
Elisabeth Souhami,
Sjors Verlaan and
Mauro Zamboni
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Sarcopenia, the age-associated loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, has considerable societal consequences for the development of frailty, disability, and health care planning. A group of geriatricians and scientists from academia and industry met in Rome, Italy, on November 18...
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PMID: 21527165
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This paper assesses what health workforce 'sustainability' might mean for Australia and New Zealand, given the policy direction set out in the World Health Organization draft code on international recruitment of health workers. The governments in both countries have in the past made...
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PMID: 21612726
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To review the history of indocyanine green (ICG) angiography and to present a personal perspective on its use in the clinical setting today.
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PMID: 21501704
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Community-based growth monitoring (GM) and growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) have been implemented worldwide. The literature provides controversial messages regarding their effectiveness. Numerous countries have GM as their main community-based activity and need guidance for future programming. T...
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PMID: 21560463
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Our aim was to evaluate the influence of both calibrators on GH results....
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PMID: 21361855
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For many diseases, tobacco smoke is the most important risk factor. To understand the different risks concerning both quality and severity of the possible diseases, the differentiation between mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke and environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is indispensable, since the differe...
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PMID: 21488384
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We calculated spatially explicit P balances for cropland soils at 0.5° resolution based on the principal agronomic P inputs and outputs associated with production of 123 crops globally for the year 2000. Although agronomic inputs of P fertilizer (14.2 Tg of P·y(-1)) and manure (9.6 Tg of P·y(-1))...
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PMID: 21282605
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Goodarz Danaei,
Mariel M Finucane,
John K Lin,
Gitanjali M Singh,
Christopher J Paciorek,
Melanie J Cowan,
Farshad Farzadfar,
Gretchen A Stevens,
Stephen S Lim,
Leanne M Riley,
Majid Ezzati and
Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Blood Pressure)
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We estimated worldwide trends in population mean systolic blood pressure (SBP).
We estimated trends and their uncertainties in mean SBP for adults 25 years and older in 199 countries and territories. We obtained data from published and unpublished health examination surveys and epide...
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PMID: 21295844
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Continued progress in language and learning disabilities (LDs) research requires a renewed focused on issues of etiology. Genetics research forms a central tenet of such an agenda and is critical in clarifying relationships among oral language development, acquisition of literacy and mathematics, exe...
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PMID: 21229298
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We assessed where the best value for money might be obtained for investment in threatened species that occur at a single site, when taking into account corruption. We found that the influence of corruption on potential investment decisions was outweighed by the likely value for money in terms of pri...
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PMID: 21818383
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Nongovernmental public action has been effective in influencing global agenda-setting in health and pharmaceutical policies, yet its record in influencing solutions to the problems identified has been notably more limited. While trade policies have been particularly resistant to change, more substant...
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PMID: 21842577
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Adrien Proust, Marcel's father, was a remarkable specialist of hygiens. He felt very responsible for the fight against epidemics, and his part was decisive at the Venice conference in 1896. In Marseilles and nearby islands quarantines were sill useful afterwards, especially in 1901.
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PMID: 21598578
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The slow but significant changes in the material culture of European households that took place in the pre-industrial period are visible in several ways, such as in the changing patterns of housing, furnishing and clothing which have been illustrated in several studies. However, most...
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PMID: 21954491
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I Ivanovsky Research Institute of Virology with special reference to comprehensive ecological, virological, and molecular-genetic analysis of the following viruses: California encephalaitis serocomplex, West Nile fever, highly virulent avian influenza A virus (H5N 1), and new pandemic influenza A vi...
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PMID: 21786591
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We found that among 166 workers from three FIEs in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, the majority had little knowledge regarding the ODPC-Act; many were unaware of their rights granted under the ODPC-Act. They were also unable to recognize employers' potential violations of the ODPC-Act. Improving FIE workers...
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PMID: 21411428
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This paper explores the role media play in safeguarding cultural diversity, promoting cultural dialogue, facilitating the exercise of cultural rights,fostering cultural understanding and cultivating intercultural citizenship in the age of globalization. The paper highlights several i...
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PMID: 21744674
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I and its aftermath, thousands of U.S. nurses put their domestic careers on hold to work overseas. Many volunteered in the wake of war and disaster. Others worked as instructors in nursing schools and as the staff of fledgling public health agencies. This article charts the international travels of...
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PMID: 21329146
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We describe methods to generate tolerogenic Dex-DC derived from either human peripheral blood monocytes or rat bone marrow cells....
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PMID: 20941608
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Dental therapists provide preventive, restorative, and minor surgical treatment, mostly for children in government-sponsored health programs, in more than 53 countries. Their quality of care and acceptance by the public and dental profession has been well-documented. Since 2005, they...
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PMID: 21337959
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The 21st Annual Antibody Engineering and 8th Annual Antibody Therapeutics international conferences, and the 2010 Annual Meeting of The Antibody Society, organized by IBC Life Sciences with contributions from The Antibody Society and two Scientific Advisory Boards, were held December...
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PMID: 21304271
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We do not know if the same phylotypes exist in all locations or if they exhibit genetic isolation by distance patterns. To examine their biogeographic distribution, we analyzed all available, long-read 16S rRNA gene sequences of Polaromonas phylotypes from glacial and periglacial environments across...
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PMID: 21897856
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