Lili Zhang, Daniel A. Zlotoff, Magid Awadalla, Syed Mahmood et al.
Introduction: myocarditis is a potentially fatal complication of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). While corticosteroids are the cornerstones of the treatment, there are no data to guide the dose and timing.\n\nMethods: from an international registry of patients with ICI myocarditis diagnosed betw...
Firdausi Qadri, Farhana Khanam, Xinxue Liu, Katherine Theiss-Nyland et al.
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries. Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine (Vi-TT) is recommended by WHO for implementation in high-burden countries, but there is little evidence about its ability to protect against clini...
Philip F. Souter, Graeme D. Cruickshank, Melanie Z. Tankerville, Bruce H. Keswick et al.
Contamination of drinking water by microorganisms and arsenic represents a major human health hazard in many parts of the world. An estimated 3.4 million deaths a year are attributable to waterborne diseases. Arsenic poisoning from contaminated water sources is causing a major health emergency in so...
Nicola Jones, Ingrid Sánchez Tapia, Sarah Baird, Silvia Guglielmi et al.
This article explores the social determinants of adolescents' access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic in three diverse urban contexts in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Jordan. It provides novel empirical data from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence longitudinal study, drawing on phone su...
Sarah Baird, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Bassam Abu Hamad, Joan Hicks et al.
Adolescence is seen as a window of opportunity for intervention but also as a time during which restrictive gender attitudes and norms become more salient. This increasingly gendered world has the potential to profoundly influence adolescents' capabilities, including their physical and mental health...
Silvia Guglielmi, Jennifer Seager, Khadija Mitu, Sarah Baird et al.
This article explores how intersecting vulnerabilities faced by Rohingya adolescents living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the direct health impacts and the indirect repercussions of COVID-19 mitigation strategies have served to heighten pre-exis...
Mohit Kehar, Rulan S. Parekh, Jennifer Stunguris, Maria De Angelis et al.
Background Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is increasingly used to bridge the gap between the current supply and demand imbalance for deceased donor organs to provide lifesaving liver transplantation. Methods Outcomes of 135 children who underwent LDLT were compared with 158 recipients of ...
Jeffrey K Aronson, Eric Barends, Robert F. Boruch, Marnie Brennan et al.
F. Abate, Amanda Adu-Amankwah, KA Ae-Ngibise, Francis Agbokey et al.
Measures of physical growth, such as weight and height have long been the predominant outcomes for monitoring child health and evaluating interventional outcomes in public health studies, including those that may impact neurodevelopment. While physical growth generally reflects overall health and nu...
Sarah Baird, Maureen Murphy, Jennifer Seager, Nicola Jones et al.
PURPOSE: Although there is a growing evidence base on the drivers of child marriage, comparatively little is known about the experiences of married girls in refugee settings and how their development trajectories diverge from those of their nonmarried peers, particularly in the context of the COVID-...
Rebecca Holmes, Nicola Jones
The role of gender in social protection is complex, shaping the types of risks tackled, how they are tackled, public buy-in and programme implementation practices. However, the extent to which gender has been integrated into social protection approaches has been uneven at best. This paper synthesise...
Nicola L. Barclay, Edward Burn, Antonella Delmestri, Talita Duarte‐Salles et al.
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in females globally. However, we know relatively little about trends in males. This study describes United Kingdom (UK) secular trends in breast cancer from 2000 to 2021 for both sexes. We describe a population-based cohort study using UK primary...
Daniel J. Stubbs, Benjamin M. Davies, Ellie Edlmann, Akbar Ansari et al.
INTRODUCTION: A chronic subdural haematoma (cSDH) is an encapsulated collection of fluid and blood degradation products in the subdural space. It is increasingly common, affecting older people and those living with frailty. Currently, no guidance exists to define optimal care from onset of symptoms ...
Rebecca Sims, Sarah Dwyer, Denise Harold, Amy Gerrish et al.
We sought to investigate the contribution of extended runs of homozygosity in a genome-wide association dataset of 1,955 Alzheimer's disease cases and 955 elderly screened controls genotyped for 529,205 autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms. Tracts of homozygosity may mark regions inherited from...
Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Bassam Abu Hamad
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis.The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement, and almost half of the world’s 70 million displaced people are children and adolescents under the age of 18. Displa...