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Testosterone replacement therapy: the emperor’s new clothes
The mean age of the world population has steadily increased in the last decades, as a result of increased life expectancy and reduced birth rate. Global aging has led to a greater world-wide cost for healthcare: hormonal alterations contribute to the pathogenesis of several conditions and might cause a significant reduction in the perceived sense of well-being. Menopause is archetypal of hormon…
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Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention
The Japanese government established the Pneumoconiosis Law in 1960 to protect health and promote the welfare of workers engaged in dust-exposed works. This article describes Japanese practice in workplace health management as regulated by the Pneumoconiosis Law to reduce pneumoconiosis in Japan.
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Lung RADS: Potential Drawbacks and Need for Revision
Lung cancer screening using low dose CT scan reduces lung cancer specific and overall mortality in high risk patients. A significant limitation of lung cancer screening is the false positive rates. The American College of Radiology Lung Imaging Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS)was designed to standardize reporting of low dose lung cancer screening scans and also to decrease the false posit…
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Autoimmune diseases and HIV infection : A cross-sectional study
To describe the clinical manifestations, treatments, prognosis, and prevalence of autoimmune diseases (ADs) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. All HIV-infected patients managed in the Infectious Diseases Department of the Lyon University Hospitals, France, between January 2003 and December 2013 and presenting an AD were retrospectively included.
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Epidemiology of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in a French Nationwide H…
HIV infection and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases (IAD) are both related to immune dysfunction (1,2). Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) and immunodeficiency induced by HIV itself may favor or prevent the development of different IAD (1,2). Indeed, the prevalence of some autoantibodies, such as antinuclear antibodies is high and up to 3 times greater than in a healthy population
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Imaging of Occupational Lung Disease
Occupational lung disease refers to a variety of disorders that affect the lungs following inhalation of dusts or chemical antigens in a vocational setting. Despite the safety standards established by health organizations, occupational lung disease represents one of the most common work-related illnesses. Occupational lung diseases are responsible for approximately 70% of all deaths from occup…
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Circulating Testosterone as the Hormonal Basis of Sex Differences in Athletic…
Elite athletic competitions have separate male and female events due to men’s physical advantages in strength, speed, and endurance so that a protected female category with objective entry criteria is required. Prior to puberty, there is no sex difference in circulating testosterone concentrations or athletic performance, but from puberty onward a clear sex difference in athletic performance…
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Elsevier’s CiteScore index values for Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pann…
Elsevier’s recently launched citation metric CiteScore enables comprehensive, transparent, and current evaluation of a journal’s performance. For an editorial office, insight into a journal’s impact over time is of great value when making important decisions regarding the journal’s future. A 2016 update of CiteScore index values for Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica et Adriat…
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Elsevier Clinical Practice Model Achieves Milestone Successes to Advance Clin…
One of the highlights of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) is the sharing of members’ key activities and achievements. The vast experience and contributions of ANI member organizations are always impressive as we all work towards ANI’s vision to “transform health and healthcare through nursing informatics and innovation.” As an ANI affiliate member, Elsevier Clinical Practice M…
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Elsevier’s approach to the bioCADDIE 2016 Dataset Retrieval Challenge
We developed a two-stream, Apache Solr-based information retrieval system in response to the bioCADDIE 2016 Dataset Retrieval Challenge. One stream was based on the principle of word embeddings, the other was rooted in ontology based indexing. Despite encountering several issues in the data, the evaluation procedure and the technologies used, the system performed quite well. We provide some po…
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