Therefore, because of the small benefit and potential harms of the drug, and the lack of survival benefit, pertuzumab may have a risk-benefit balance that will ultimately tip towards greater harm in practice. We believe that an impartial consideration of the evidence should give us pause before...
(n= 10), which were analyzed using a thematic approach. Three themes emerged in the findings: (1) a community in silence surrounding CSA, (2) the role of sex education in bridging between silence and CSA, and (3) educators’ experiences of breaking the silence by making their voices ...
so he thought the body map was going to be used to determine the severity of his condition. This highlights another limitation of communicating electronically about a visual form of data collection; several participants made assumptions about the purpose of the study that were outside of what our...
to give a new angle on drinking water microbiome research. Starting from a selection of 231 scientific publications on this topic, we emphasize the value of biodiversity in drinking water ecosystems and how it can be related with industrialization. We then discuss how microbiome research can ...
[1] also argued that teachers should, above all, place a set of particular pedagogies considered to grasp the foundational essence of student-centeredness at the heart of their teaching, as follows: that students actively engage in learning, work in small groups, and participate in modified ...
Conversely, evidence has been provided that small RNAs isolated from Pseudomonas spp. are not correlated with prostate cancer development and may retard metastatic dissemination [93]. From a pathogenic point of view, immune response in the course of prostatitis is able to promote a massive ...
Despite this strong association, the nexus of violence and TBI has been largely overlooked in research, practice, and policy arenas, with only a small number of TBI studies completed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples [1,14,15,16]. None of these studies specifically focus on ...
A small body of literature has focused on vaccination as an ongoing process, where an individual’s orientation towards vaccination may not be fixed, but instead is dynamically related to the social and health contexts for vaccine decisions [28,31,32,33,34]. Hesitant adopters are an important ...
Some participants referred to God as a doctor: “We have the opportunity to go to the best known and most effective doctor in the world, who I think is God.” (Member from focus group 4) However, others still mentioned their faith in God for opportunities such as work, treatment, and ...
This study is limited by a small sample, and although not uncommon for qualitative research, generalizability may be limited. Data were collected in fall 2018, before widespread media attention about e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI), which could alter smokers’ perce...