Articles

Infographic showing how sex bias and omission exists in Batten disease research
Elsevier,

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, Volume 1868, 1 November 2022

Batten Disease is a rare disease. This reviews highlights the existing sex bias and omissions in Batten Disease research.
Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, October 2022

This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 13 by reviewing the ways that climate risks affect all aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including transmission, perception, and response. The authors highlight the importance of considering climate risks in relation to COVID-19 response measures.
Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 8, October 2022
Negative attitudes toward mental illness and treatment are attributed to a lack of or inaccurate mental health knowledge. We aimed to assess the current mental health knowledge and awareness among Bangladeshi university students and identified socio-demographic factors that affect them. Between February and April of 2021, a cross-sectional study of 2036 university students in Bangladesh was conducted. Two different questionnaires (i.e., knowledge and awareness) were developed to assess mental health knowledge and awareness.
Elsevier, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 3, October 2022
Background: There is an urgent need to reduce the burden of depression among older adults in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a task-shared, collaborative care psychosocial intervention for improving recovery from depression in older adults in Brazil. Methods: PROACTIVE was a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel-group, cluster-randomised controlled trial conducted in Guarulhos, Brazil.
Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 21, October 2022

This Article supports SDG3 by evaluating whether planned improvements in care equity for hip replacements in England and Wales have been successful.
Elsevier,

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Volume 272, October 2022

This article advances SDG # 14 by looking at the impact that environmental changes and anthropogenic threats are having on marine mammals through the assessment of different stress biomarkers in certain body tissues of chronically affected and bycaught striped dolphins.
Elsevier,

eClinicalMedicine, Volume 52, October 2022

What the world is witnessing these days is a country where older and younger people, men and women, Iranians from inside and outside the country, people with different ethnicities, are unified by a single purpose—FREEDOM.
Elsevier,

Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 14, October 2022

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 16, focusing on the underlying causes of racial disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infections and outcomes.
Elsevier,

Ophthalmology, Volume 129, October 2022

The purpose of this article is to describe the principle of health literacy and its central role in enhancing health, and how its absence can result in poorer health outcomes.
Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 14, October 2022

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 16 by presenting a call to action to collect race-based performance data for medical professionals, focusing particularly on the Canadian context.

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