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Public Acceptance and Willingness-to-Pay for a Future Dengue Vaccine: A Community-Based Survey in Bandung, Indonesia
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: All four serotypes of dengue virus are endemic in Indonesia, where the population at risk for infection exceeds 200 million people. Despite continuous control efforts that were initiated more than four decades ... -
Public Attitudes Regarding Banning of Cigarettes and Regulation of Nicotine
(American Public Health Association, 2012)Knowledge of current public opinion is important as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) applies the best scientific evidence available to tobacco product regulation. Based on a nationally representative survey of the ... -
Public health and economic impact of vaccination with 7-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7) in the context of the annual influenza epidemic and a severe influenza pandemic
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Influenza pandemic outbreaks occurred in the US in 1918, 1957, and 1968. Historical evidence suggests that the majority of influenza-related deaths during the 1918 US pandemic were attributable to bacterial ... -
A Public Health Approach to Eating Disorders Prevention: It’s Time for Public Health Professionals to Take a Seat at the Table
(BioMed Central, 2012)Background: The societal burden of eating disorders is clear, and though there is a compelling need for a public health approach to eating disorders prevention, public health professionals have yet to take up the challenge. ... -
Public health benefits of hair-mercury analysis and dietary advice in lowering methylmercury exposure in pregnant women
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Aim: To evaluate whether a public health intervention using focused dietary advice combined with a hair-mercury analysis can lower neurotoxic methylmercury exposure among pregnant women, without decreasing overall seafood ... -
The public health impact of economic fluctuations in a Latin American country: mortality and the business cycle in Colombia in the period 1980–2010
(BioMed Central, 2015)Introduction: Studies in high-income countries suggest that mortality is related to economic cycles, but few studies have examined how fluctuations in the economy influence mortality in low- and middle-income countries. ... -
Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic
(National Academy of Sciences, 2007)Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) intended to reduce infectious contacts between persons form an integral part of plans to mitigate the impact of the next influenza pandemic. Although the potential benefits of NPIs ... -
Public Response to Community Mitigation Measures for Pandemic Influenza
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008)Results from a national survey indicated that most persons would follow public health officials’ guidelines. We report the results of a national survey conducted to help public health officials understand the public’s ... -
Public response to the 2014 chemical spill in West Virginia: knowledge, opinions and behaviours
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: On January 9th 2014, a faulty storage tank leaked 10,000 gal of an industrial coal processing liquid into the Elk River in West Virginia (WV), contaminating the drinking water of the nine counties collectively ... -
Public support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)Objective To determine public attitudes towards federal spending on nutrition assistance programmes and support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Design: ... -
PubMed search filters for the study of putative outdoor air pollution determinants of disease
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Objectives: Several PubMed search filters have been developed in contexts other than environmental. We aimed at identifying efficient PubMed search filters for the study of environmental determinants of diseases related ... -
Puerperal mastitis: a reproductive event of importance affecting anti-mucin antibody levels and ovarian cancer risk
(Springer Nature, 2013)Purpose: Test the hypothesis that puerperal mastitis may alter immunity related to the mucin (MUC) family of glycoproteins and lower risk of ovarian cancer. Methods: In two case–control studies conducted in New England ... -
Pulmonary Response to Intratracheal Instillation of Ultrafine versus Fine Titanium Dioxide: Role of Particle Surface Area
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background: The production and use of nanoparticles is growing rapidly due to the unique physical and chemical properties associated with their nano size and large surface area. Since nanoparticles have unique physicochemical ... -
Pulmonary Toxicity in Hamsters of Smoke Particles from Kuwaiti Oil Fires.
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1998)The Kuwaiti oil wells set on fire by retreating Iraqi troops at the end of the Persian Gulf War released complex particles, inorganic and organic gases, and hydrocarbons into the atmosphere, damaging the environment where ... -
Punctuated copy number evolution and clonal stasis in triple-negative breast cancer
(Springer Nature, 2016)Aneuploidy is a hallmark of breast cancer; however, our knowledge of how these complex rearrangements evolve during tumorigenesis is limited. In this study we developed a highly-multiplexed single-nucleus-sequencing ... -
Purinergic P2Y12 Receptor Activation in Eosinophils and the Schistosomal Host Response
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Identifying new target molecules through which eosinophils secrete their stored proteins may reveal new therapeutic approaches for the control of eosinophilic disorders such as host immune responses to parasites. We have ... -
Putting PrEP into Practice: Lessons Learned from Early-Adopting U.S. Providers’ Firsthand Experiences Providing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Associated Care
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Optimizing access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an evidence-based HIV prevention resource, requires expanding healthcare providers’ adoption of PrEP into clinical practice. This qualitative study explored PrEP ... -
PyPanda: a Python package for gene regulatory network reconstruction
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Summary: PANDA (Passing Attributes between Networks for Data Assimilation) is a gene regulatory network inference method that uses message-passing to integrate multiple sources of ‘omics data. PANDA was originally coded ... -
Pyrosequencing Evaluation of Widely Available Bisulfite Conversion Methods: Considerations for Application
(2014)Introduction: Bisulfite treatment of DNA introduces methylation-dependent sequence changes through selective chemical conversion of nonmethylated cytosine to uracil and serves as pretreatment step for the majority of DNA ... -
Qigong Exercise Alleviates Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms, Improves Sleep Quality, and Shortens Sleep Latency in Persons with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-Like Illness
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)Objectives:. To evaluate the effectiveness of Baduanjin Qigong exercise on sleep, fatigue, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome- (CFS-) like illness and to determine the dose-response relationship. ...