Interferons and Interferon Regulatory Factors in Malaria by Sin Yee Gun, Carla Claser, Kevin Shyong Wei Tan, Laurent Rénia

“…Malaria is one of the most serious infectious diseases in humans and responsible for approximately 500 million clinical cases and 500 thousand deaths annually. Acquired adaptive immune responses control parasite replication and infection-induced pathologies. …”
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Lightning Safety for Florida Agriculture Workers by Shawn T. Steed, Alicia J. Whidden

“…In fact, Florida is known as the lightning capital of the U.S. and ranks number one in lightning-caused deaths. As Floridians, we have grown accustomed to living with lightning and are possibly complacent about the destructive force that surrounds us. …”
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Lightning Safety for Florida Agriculture Workers by Shawn T. Steed, Alicia J. Whidden

“…In fact, Florida is known as the lightning capital of the U.S. and ranks number one in lightning-caused deaths. As Floridians, we have grown accustomed to living with lightning and are possibly complacent about the destructive force that surrounds us. …”
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Determinants of Preterm Birth among Women Who Gave Birth in Amhara Region Referral Hospitals, Northern Ethiopia, 2018: Institutional Based Case Control Study by Abebayehu Melesew Mekuriyaw, Muhabaw Shumye Mihret, Ayenew Engida Yismaw

“…It is now the leading cause of new born deaths. Although identifying its common risk factors is mandatory to decrease preterm birth and thereby neonatal deaths, there was a dearth of studies in the study area. …”
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Assessing the Health and Economic Outcomes of a 9-Valent HPV Vaccination Program in the United Kingdom by Kwame Owusu-Edusei, Cody Palmer, Olga Ovcinnikova, Giampiero Favato, Vincent Daniels

“…**Conclusions:** These results demonstrate that replacing universal 4vHPV with 9vHPV can prevent a substantial additional number of HPV-related cases/deaths (in both women and men) and remain cost-effective over a range of 9vHPV price premiums.…”
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Patient Surgical Outcomes When Surgery Residents Are the Primary Surgeon by Intensity of Surgical Attending Supervision in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers by T. Michael Kashner, PhD, JD, MPH, Paul B. Greenberg, MD, MPH, Andrea D. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, John M. Byrne, DO, Karen M. Sanders, MD, Mark A. Wilson, MD, PhD, Marjorie A. Bowman, MD, MPA

“…Over the 15 study years, scrubbed surgery attendings may have averted an estimated 13,700 deaths, 43,600 cases with complications, and 73,800 readmissions. …”
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Gastric cancer incidence, mortality and burden in adolescents and young adults: a time-trend analysis and comparison among China, South Korea, Japan and the USA by Jian Li, Yao Zhang, Si Lin Wu, Yi Fu, Ji Sheng Wang

“…The trend magnitude and directions over time for incidence and mortality of GCAYA were analysed and compared among four countries.Main outcomes and measures Outcomes included new cases, deaths, mortality-to-incidence ratios (MIRs), disability-adjusted life years, and their age-standardised rates and estimated annual percentage changes (AAPCs).Results There were 49 008 new cases and 27 895 deaths from GCAYA in 2019, nearly half of which occurred in China. …”
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Estimating the impact of school closures on the COVID-19 dynamics in 74 countries: A modelling analysis. by Romain Ragonnet, Angus E Hughes, David S Shipman, Michael T Meehan, Alec S Henderson, Guillaume Briffoteaux, Nouredine Melab, Daniel Tuyttens, Emma S McBryde, James M Trauer

“…The median estimated effect of school closures on COVID-19 deaths ranged from a 73% reduction in Thailand to a 7% increase in the United Kingdom. …”
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Longer disease progression milestone-free time in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treated versus not treated with intravenous edaravone: results from an administrative cl... by James D Berry, Melissa Hagan, Jeffrey Zhang, Ying Liu, Malgorzata Ciepielewska

“…From 0 to 24 months post index, more cases (n = 129) than controls (n = 103) reported no milestones and more controls (n = 232) than cases (n = 131) reported deaths. Conclusion: In a US-based real-world setting, IV edaravone-treated PALS had a longer time to disease progression milestone events and fewer deaths in 2 years compared with PALS not treated with IV edaravone.…”

Prevalence of neonatal sepsis and associated factors among neonates admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lira Regional Referral Hospital, Northern Uganda. by Brendah Katugume, JohnBaptist Muzungu, Nelson Okello, Eustes Kigongo, Deborah Andrinar Namutebi

“…Uganda registered stagnated neonatal mortality of 27 deaths per 1000 live births in 2020 of which 12% was attributed to NS. …”
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Individual- and Community-Level Risk Factors Associated with Childhood Diarrhea in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis of 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey by Setegn Muche Fenta, Teshager Zerihun Nigussie

“…More than half of these deaths occur in five countries including Ethiopia. …”
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Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania by Trudy Cowley, Lucy Frost, Kris Inwood, Rebecca Kippen, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Monika Schwarz, John Shepherd, Richard Tuffin, Mark Williams, John Wilson, Paul Wilson

“…This resource contains over 1.6 million records drawn from digitised prison and hospital admission registers, military enlistment papers, births, deaths and marriages, census and muster records, arrival and departure lists, bank accounts and property valuations, maps and plans and meteorological observations. …”
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Insights into the Roles of B Cells in Patients with Sepsis by Xijie Dong, Hao Tu, Shuang Qin, Xiangjun Bai, Fan Yang, Zhanfei Li

“…Sepsis is a life-threatening yet common disease, still posing high mortality worldwide. Sepsis-related deaths primarily occur during immunosuppression; the disease can hamper the numbers and function of B cells, which mediate innate and adaptive immune responses to maintain immune homeostasis. …”
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Communication Support for People with ALS by David Beukelman, Susan Fager, Amy Nordness

“…Many people use AAC until within a few weeks of their deaths.…”
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Frontera política, resistencias y solidaridades: el caso de los refugiados de la Guerra Civil Española en Barrancos (1936) by Dulce Simões

“…The Spanish-Portuguese border was an instrument of protection and resistance, which demarcated the lives and deaths of thousands of people during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), despite Salazar having strengthened his control and surveillance. …”
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Plants and Fungal Products with Activity Against Tuberculosis by Marcus Vinicius Nora De Souza

“…This contagious disease kills four people every minute somewhere in the world and accounts for more than 2 million deaths per year. Due to the rapid spread of TB strains resistant to all the major anti-TB drugs on the market, and the association of TB with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in AIDS, we urgently need to develop new drugs to fight against TB. …”
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Empirical Evidence for Various Evolutionary Hypotheses on Species Demonstrating Increasing Mortality with Increasing Chronological Age in the Wild by Giacinto Libertini

“…In particular, (1) the existence of many species with a constant, or almost constant, mortality rate, especially the so-called “animals with negligible senescence”; (2) the inverse correlation, observed in mammals and birds in the wild, between extrinsic mortality and the proportion of deaths due to intrinsic mortality; (3) the existence of highly sophisticated, genetically determined, and regulated mechanisms that limit and modulate cell duplication capacities and overall cell functionality. …”
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The Malignant Polyp - When to Operate: The St. Mark’s Experience by Christopher B Williams, John M Geraghty

“…St Mark's experience of five year follow-up of 62 patients with malignant polyps judged 'completely excised' showed three cancer-related deaths (of uncertain primary) in 78- to 81-year-old patients. …”
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The covid-19 pandemic in vulnerable communities: the responses of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas by Dalia Maimon Schiray

“…Brazil continues to fight the world’s second-highest number of deaths, after the United States. In this context, the article focuses on the responses of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to the pandemic during and after the lockdown. …”
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Hypertension and Its Impact on Stroke Recovery: From a Vascular to a Parenchymal Overview by Benjamin Maïer, Nathalie Kubis

“…Hypertension is the first modifiable vascular risk factor accounting for 10.4 million deaths worldwide; it is strongly and independently associated with the risk of stroke and is related to worse prognosis. …”
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