Shannon Takala‐Harrison, Christopher G. Jacob, Cesar Arze, Michael P. Cummings et al.
BACKGROUND: The emergence of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Southeast Asia threatens malaria treatment efficacy. Mutations in a kelch protein encoded on falciparum chromosome 13 (K13) have been associated with resistance in vitro and in field samples from Cambodia. METHODS: fal...
Shannon Takala‐Harrison, Taane G. Clark, Christopher G. Jacob, Michael P. Cummings et al.
The recent emergence of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in western Cambodia could threaten prospects for malaria elimination. Identification of the genetic basis of resistance would provide tools for molecular surveillance, aiding efforts to contain resistance. Clinical trials of...
Shannon Gravely, Pete Driezen, Janine Ouimet, Anne C K Quah et al.
AIMS: This paper presents updated prevalence estimates of awareness, ever-use, and current use of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) from 14 International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project) countries that have varying regulations governing NVP sales and marketing. DESIGN, SETTING, ...
Andrea S. Licht, Andrew Hyland, Richard J. O’Connor, Frank J. Chaloupka et al.
This paper examines how price minimizing behaviors impact efforts to stop smoking. Data on 4,988 participants from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Four-Country Survey who were smokers at baseline (wave 5) and interviewed at a 1 year follow-up were used. We examined whether ...
David Hammond, Jessica L. Reid, Pete Driezen, James F. Thrasher et al.
INTRODUCTION: More than 100 countries have implemented pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages. However, few studies have compared how consumers from different geographic and cultural contexts respond to health warning content. The current study compares perceptions of warnings among adult s...
Elizabeth Cummings, Gary Donohoe, Colm McDonald, Timothy G. Dinan et al.
The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1344706, mapping to the gene ZNF804A, has been implicated in schizophrenia susceptibility (O'Donovan et al. 2008; International Schizophrenia Consortium, 2009; Stefansson et al. 2009; Steinberg et al. 2010). The original study reported stronger association ...
Stephanie Zayed, Laura T. R. Morrison, Daniel Lapidus, Michael P. Gallaher et al.
Abstract Flood early warning systems have the potential to mitigate damages for vulnerable populations that experience river flooding in Bangladesh. We conducted a 2,247 household survey and series of focus groups to estimate the economic damages from 2016 river floods and the hypothetical savings o...
Shannon Gravely, Sara C Hitchman, Ann McNeil, K. Michael Cummings et al.
Background Electronic cigarettes have become an international phenomenon, although few studies have compared e-cigarette use across countries. This paper presents prevalence estimates of self-reported e-cigarette awareness, trial (ever-tried), current use (daily/weekly/monthly), and daily use from 1...
J K Aronson
The first issue of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology was published 30 years ago, in February 1974, under the aegis of the British Pharmacological Society and the imprint of Macmillan Journals Limited. It was first published bimonthly, but has been published monthly since 1978. Since 1983 ...
Jürgen Matthäus, Martin Shaw, Omer Bartov, Doris L. Bergen et al.
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The views presented here are my own; they do not represent the opinions of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. On the latter, see Timothy Snyder, ‘The coming age of slaughter: will global warming unleash genocide?’, The New Republic, 28 Oc...
Hua‐Hie Yong, Chandan Karmakar, Mohammod Abdul Motin, Ron Borland et al.
INTRODUCTION: This study examined individual and conjoint factors associated with beliefs about the harmfulness of nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) relative to combustible cigarettes (CCs). AIMS AND METHODS: Data analyzed came from 8642 adults (≥18 years) who smoked daily/weekly and participate...