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Mashup Score: 0Hikikomori, A Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-V - 10 month(s) ago
A form of severe social withdrawal, called hikikomori, has been frequently described in Japan and is characterized by adolescents and young adults who become recluses in their parents’ homes, unable to work or go to school for months or years. …
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Mashup Score: 1The effectiveness of telepsychiatry: thematic review - 10 month(s) ago
This review aims to clarify the evidence on the effectiveness of telepsychiatry following the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a literature review of three databases (Cochrane Library, PubMed and PsycINFO), using the terms virtual consultation/telepsychiatry/video …
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The effectiveness of telepsychiatry: thematic review https://t.co/q3QzpqFYoe via @MaudsleyNHS researchers
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Mashup Score: 12In the aftermath: the legacy of measles in Samoa - 10 month(s) ago
As Samoa recovers from a devastating measles outbreak, Jacqui Thornton reports on how the epidemic is having long-lasting effects on the country’s health system.Vaila Masimo, 29, sits on the floor of the traditional Samoan fale or open house—a one-storey structure open to the elements, looking out onto palm trees and tropical flowers.Holding baby Ivanajatore in her arms, she glances down at her…
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Anti-vaxxers are just so, so close to getting it….so close! When measles vaccine coverage is maintained at very high levels, we avert measles deaths 👏 But when they fall (eg, in Samoa, to 31%), we see healthy kids die from measles (https://t.co/ARl1wZf7hR) https://t.co/cxjC9PtcU0
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Mashup Score: 0Trial sequential analysis: novel approach for meta-analysis - 10 month(s) ago
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses rank the highest in the evidence hierarchy. However, they still have the risk of spurious results because they include too few studies and participants. The use of trial sequential analysis (TSA) has increased recently, …
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RT @WhistlingDixie4: 🚨 Disclaimer - the above is my understanding based on what I learned reading part of this👇🏼 https://t.co/PVt03EiUMI I…
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Mashup Score: 1Thinking avant la lettre: A Review of 4E Cognition - 10 month(s) ago
The “4E” approach to cognition argues that cognition does not occur solely in the head, but is also embodied, embedded, enacted, or extended by way of extra-cranial processes and structures. Though very much in vogue, 4E cognition has …
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RT @DrYohanJohn: @Modemichael This critique might be harsh, but it does have some food for thought. https://t.co/l3A9varNMr
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Mashup Score: 1Monoclonal proteinuria predicts progression risk in asymptomatic multiple myeloma with a free light chain ratio ≥100 - 10 month(s) ago
A baseline involved to uninvolved free light chain ratio (FLCr) ≥100 with involved FLC ≥10 mg/dL is a multiple myeloma (MM)-defining event (MDE). However, multimeric light chain aggregates may contribute to increased FLC levels and impair …
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If no proteinuria, kidney Bx should be performed to identify cause of renal dysfunction (𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐅𝐋𝐂)! ⬆️iFLC/sFLC ratio without significant monoclonal proteinuria may indicate LC multimers causing falsely elevated iFLC! https://t.co/LfiKB1LAGm
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Neuroinflammation is an important pathogenic mechanism in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with regulatory T cells (Tregs) mediating a slower rate of disease progression. Dimethyl fumarate enhances Treg levels and suppresses pro‐inflammatory …
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RT @nadia_sethi: @alsadvocacy 2021 ALS publication on DMF, one of the drugs of the proposed combo: https://t.co/h4EjnhyCMZ
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Mashup Score: 4Epidemiology of haemodialysis outcomes - 10 month(s) ago
Haemodialysis (HD) is the commonest form of kidney replacement therapy in the world, accounting for approximately 69% of all kidney replacement therapy and 89% of all dialysis. Over the last six decades since the inception of HD, dialysis technology and …
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✴️Just to remind ourselves of the need of improved dialysis options!! Stark deduction in expected remaining years of life in prevalent patients on dialysis🤕 https://t.co/MI7xIFgTMV #NephJC https://t.co/A3eNADhRPW
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Postdigit Sci Educ. 2022; 4(2): 618–622. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 242 pp. ISBN 9781529201055 (Hardcover)Sociology in a Post-pandemic and Postdigital WorldHow does sociology adapt to the post-pandemic and postdigital world? In their book-cum-manifesto for public sociology, Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis explore what it means to be public-facing sociologists. I say manifesto because…
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🤔, the ‘commodification of scholarship on social media’: Some articles focus on the reaction they can get, rather than the important issues of the primary content. https://t.co/JO67wBarQW
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Mashup Score: 4High-Efficiency Postdilution Online Hemodiafiltration Reduces All-Cause Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients - 10 month(s) ago
Retrospective studies suggest that online hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) may reduce the risk of mortality compared with standard hemodialysis in patients with ESRD. We conducted a multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial in which we assigned 906 …
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T0h: Even ESHOL, which is the only trial demonstrating mortality benefit so far, was shadowed by the exclusion of 10% pt due to inadequate blood pump speeds, slightly fewer diabetics & younger age in the HDF group. #NephJC https://t.co/A4TATnCQ5R https://t.co/2iD9SeJYLB
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Has #Hikikomori come to America? https://t.co/NNZ8gNxTsp #youth