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Health Impact Assessment and Short-term Medical Missions: A Methods Study to Evaluate Quality of Care
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background: Short-term medical missions (STMMs) are a well-established means of providing health care to the developing world. Despite over 250 million dollars and thousands of volunteer hours dedicated to STMMs, there is ... -
Health Insurance of Rural/township Schoolchildren in Pinggu, Beijing: Coverage Rate, Determinants, Disparities, and Sustainability
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background: As China re-establishes its health insurance system through various cooperative schemes, little is known about schoolchildren's health insurance. This paper reports findings from a study that examined ... -
Health outcomes among HIV-positive Latinos initiating antiretroviral therapy in North America versus Central and South America
(International AIDS Society, 2016)Introduction: Latinos living with HIV in the Americas share a common ethnic and cultural heritage. In North America, Latinos have a relatively high rate of new HIV infections but lower rates of engagement at all stages of ... -
Health related quality of life of immigrant children: towards a new pattern in Germany?
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: To study Health related quality of life (HRQoL) of a sample of kindergarten children with migration background. Methods: Five kindergartens in Frankfurt/Main and Darmstadt (Germany) participated. HRQoL was ... -
Health Services for Buruli Ulcer Control: Lessons from a Field Study in Ghana
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-06-21)Background Buruli ulcer (BU), caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans infection, is a debilitating disease of the skin and underlying tissue. The first phase of a BU prevention and treatment programme (BUPaT) was initiated from ... -
Health Status in the TORCH Study of COPD: Treatment Efficacy and Other Determinants of Change
(BioMed Central, 2011)Background: Little is known about factors that determine health status decline in clinical trials of COPD. Objectives: To examine health status changes over 3 years in the TORCH study of salmeterol+fluticasone propionate ... -
Health, Wealth, and Air Pollution: Advancing Theory and Methods
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2003)The effects of both ambient air pollution and socioeconomic position (SEP) on health are well documented. A limited number of recent studies suggest that SEP may itself play a role in the epidemiology of disease and death ... -
Health-related Quality of Life of Individuals With Neurofibromatosis Type 2
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2016)Objective: To explore health-related quality of life (HRQoL) reported by individuals with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and to assess for correlations between HRQoL and objective measures of disease manifestations. Study ... -
Healthcare Hackathons Provide Educational and Innovation Opportunities: A Case Study and Best Practice Recommendations
(Springer US, 2016)Physicians and other healthcare professionals are often the end users of medical innovation; however, they are rarely involved in the beginning design stages. This often results in ineffective healthcare solutions with ... -
Healthcare Provider Attitudes Towards the Problem List in an Electronic Health Record: A Mixed-Methods Qualitative Study
(BioMed Central, 2012)Background: The problem list is a key part of the electronic health record (EHR) that allows practitioners to see a patient’s diagnoses and health issues. Yet, as the content of the problem list largely represents the ... -
Healthcare-Related Regret among Nurses and Physicians Is Associated with Self-Rated Insomnia Severity: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Public Library of Science, 2015)To examine the association between healthcare-related regrets and sleep difficulties among nurses and physicians, we surveyed 240 nurses and 220 physicians at the University Hospitals of Geneva. Regret intensity and regret ... -
Healthy Dietary Interventions and Lipoprotein (a) Plasma Levels: Results from the Omni Heart Trial
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Background: Increased lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels are associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Studies of dietary interventions on changes in Lp(a) are sparse. We aimed to compare the effects of three ... -
Healthy Dietary Patterns and Oxidative Stress as Measured by Fluorescent Oxidation Products in Nurses’ Health Study
(MDPI, 2016)Healthy diets may lower oxidative stress and risk of chronic diseases. However, no previous studies examined associations between diet and fluorescent oxidation products (FlOP), a global marker of oxidative stress. We ... -
Healthy Lifestyle and Leukocyte Telomere Length in U.S. Women
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Context: Whether a healthy lifestyle may be associated with longer telomere length is largely unknown. Objectives: To examine healthy lifestyle practices, which are primary prevention measures against major age-related ... -
Healthy Older Adults Have Insufficient Hip Range of Motion and Plantar Flexor Strength to Walk Like Healthy Young Adults
(Elsevier BV, 2014)Limited plantar flexor strength and hip extension range of motion (ROM) in older adults are believed to underlie common age-related differences in gait. However, no studies of age-related differences in gait have quantified ... -
Hearing and facial function outcomes for neurofibromatosis 2 clinical trials
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2013)Objectives: Vestibular schwannomas are the hallmark of neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), occurring in >95% of patients. These tumors develop on the vestibulocochlear nerve and are associated with significant morbidity due to ... -
Hearing Improvement after Bevacizumab in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2
(New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2009)Background Profound hearing loss is a serious complication of neurofibromatosis type 2, a genetic condition associated with bilateral vestibular schwannomas, benign tumors that arise from the eighth cranial nerve. There ... -
Hearing Loss in Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Characteristics and Treatment Considerations
(SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research, 2011)Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is the most common heritable disorder of connective tissue. It is associated with fractures following relatively minor injury, blue sclerae, dentinogenesis imperfecta, increased joint mobility, ... -
Hearing Shapes Our Perception of Time: Temporal Discrimination of Tactile Stimuli in Deaf People
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Hearing the light: neural and perceptual encoding of optogenetic stimulation in the central auditory pathway
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Optogenetics provides a means to dissect the organization and function of neural circuits. Optogenetics also offers the translational promise of restoring sensation, enabling movement or supplanting abnormal activity ...