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ITEMS : is fashion modern?
Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a profound impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Arranged A-Z encyclopedia-style, it includes designs as iconic as Levi's 501 jeans, the pearl necklace and Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking, and as ancient and rich as the sari, the Breton shirt, the kippah and the keffiyeh. The catalog accompanies the first fashion exhibition to be mounted at MoMA since 1944. An essay by curator Paola Antonelli opens the volume, highlighting the Museum's unique perspective on fashion and exploring the latter's role in the changing international landscape of design. The 111 texts that follow trace the history of each item in relation to cultural forces past and present, touching on labor, marketing, technology, religion, politics, aesthetics and popular culture, among many others. These concise essays are richly illustrated with a lively mix of archival images, fashion photography, film stills and documentary shots. Exhibition: MoMA, New York, United States (01.10.2017 - 28.01.2018).
A Review of Murine Cytomegalovirus as a Model for Human Cytomegalovirus Disease—Do Mice Lie?
2020
Since murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) was first described in 1954, it has been used to model human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) diseases. MCMV is a natural pathogen of mice that is present in wild mice populations and has been associated with diseases such as myocarditis. The species-specific nature of HCMV restricts most research to cell culture-based studies or to the investigation of non-invasive clinical samples, which may not be ideal for the study of disseminated disease. Initial MCMV research used a salivary gland-propagated virus administered via different routes of inoculation into a variety of mouse strains. This revealed that the genetic background of the laboratory mice affected the severity of disease and altered the extent of subsequent pathology. The advent of genetically modified mice and viruses has allowed new aspects of disease to be modeled and the opportunistic nature of HCMV infection to be confirmed. This review describes the different ways that MCMV has been used to model HCMV diseases and explores the continuing difficulty faced by researchers attempting to model HCMV congenital cytomegalovirus disease using the mouse model.
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Controlled clinical trial of canine therapy versus usual care to reduce patient anxiety in the emergency department
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Pettit, Katherine L.
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Beck, Alan M.
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Kline, Jeffrey A.
in
Adult
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Animal Assisted Therapy
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Animals
2019
Test if therapy dogs reduce anxiety in emergency department (ED) patients.
In this controlled clinical trial (NCT03471429), medically stable, adult patients were approached if the physician believed that the patient had \"moderate or greater anxiety.\" Patients were allocated on a 1:1 ratio to either 15 min exposure to a certified therapy dog and handler (dog), or usual care (control). Patient reported anxiety, pain and depression were assessed using a 0-10 scale (10 = worst). Primary outcome was change in anxiety from baseline (T0) to 30 min and 90 min after exposure to dog or control (T1 and T2 respectively); secondary outcomes were pain, depression and frequency of pain medication.
Among 93 patients willing to participate in research, 7 had aversions to dogs, leaving 86 (92%) were willing to see a dog six others met exclusion criteria, leaving 40 patients allocated to each group (dog or control). Median and mean baseline anxiety, pain and depression scores were similar between groups. With dog exposure, median anxiety decreased significantly from T0 to T1: 6 (IQR 4-9.75) to T1: 2 (0-6) compared with 6 (4-8) to 6 (2.5-8) in controls (P<0.001, for T1, Mann-Whitney U and unpaired t-test). Dog exposure was associated with significantly lower anxiety at T2 and a significant overall treatment effect on two-way repeated measures ANOVA for anxiety, pain and depression. After exposure, 1/40 in the dog group needed pain medication, versus 7/40 in controls (P = 0.056, Fisher's exact test).
Exposure to therapy dogs plus handlers significantly reduced anxiety in ED patients.
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Legal and regulatory responses to online gambling harms: a scoping review of evidence
2025
Objective
To synthesise original research on the distinct challenges of regulating the online sector, and the efficacy of public health legal interventions aimed at reducing online gambling harm.
Background
Both legal and public health scholars increasingly view gambling as a public health concern. Gambling puts individuals at risk of a range of harms, including related to finances, relationships, mental health, physical health, employment/education, and criminal activity. Harmful gambling can extend beyond the realms of individual harm to affect others including wider society. Online gambling is growing in many countries—e.g. it accounts for 44% of gambling turnover in the UK—and it is seen as especially harmful compared to land-based gambling due to the accessibility, and fast-paced nature of the products available. In addition, there are distinct harms associated with the overlap between gaming and gambling, most prominently through the challenges that exist in the regulation of loot boxes. Legal and public health scholars recommend legal interventions to reduce the harms of gambling, including online gambling.
Methods
Following a PICOST inclusion/exclusion criteria, we completed a comprehensive scoping review of scientific and legal data sources to ascertain the efficacy of legal interventions on reducing online gambling harms. A narrative synthesis of the included studies was completed.
Results
We include 27 data sources which either described distinct challenges of regulating online gambling or evaluated the efficacy of laws and regulations. Current gambling harm reduction research is heavily focused on using an individual approach, rather than a systems approach. When a systems approach is taken, it often prioritises tackling unlicensed gambling and blocking mechanics, which require a comprehensive delivery strategy to be effective. Significant gaps exist in examining the effectiveness of interventions on subgroups of the population.
Conclusions
Inadequate legal and regulatory frameworks have played a crucial role in the proliferation of online gambling harms; studies vary in their explanation for this inadequacy. There is an urgent need for more robust research on law, regulation, and online gambling harms to critically explore the implications of technology, ongoing innovation, and the intervention generated inequalities of regulating online gambling.
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The Effectiveness of Interventions for the Prevention or Treatment of Paternal Perinatal Anxiety: A Systematic Review
2022
Background: The worldwide prevalence of paternal perinatal anxiety (PPA) ranges between 3.4% and 25.0% antenatally, and 2.4% and 51.0% postnatally. Experiencing PPA can adversely impact the individual, partners, and infants. Research concerning PPA is lagging and fragmented compared to research for new mothers. Objectives: To establish the effectiveness of prevention or treatment interventions for PPA in adults identifying as male. Data sources: We completed searches of Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO and Web of Science from inception to 2 December 2021, as well as hand searches of references from relevant papers. Search selection and data extraction: Randomised controlled trials delivering prevention or treatment interventions and reporting anxiety outcomes for new/expectant fathers in the perinatal mental health period were included. Our review follows the PRISMA reporting guidelines. One reviewer independently screened 5170 titles/abstracts; second reviewers screened 50%. Two reviewers independently screened full text, extracted data, and conducted risk of bias assessments. Synthesis: Cochrane’s collaboration tool 2 was used to assess quality. Primarily results are synthesised narratively, a post-hoc sub-group analysis was completed on four studies using the same outcome measure. Main results: Twelve of the 5170 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Studies used psychoeducational or practical skills interventions. Interventions mostly involved couple-dyads and three studies assessed PPA as a primary outcome. Included interventions were prevention-based; no treatment interventions were found. Father-only interventions consistently reported a significant reduction of PPA. Conclusions: Systematic searching yielded no treatment interventions, highlighting a substantial gap in the evidence base. Within a limited and heterogenous sample, no studies targeted diagnosed PPA. Evidence suggested father-focused interventions may be effective in preventing PPA, regardless of the intervention delivery mode or intervention content. However, consistency between study design and options within the field are lacking compared to interventions available for mothers.
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Discovery and validation of a prognostic proteomic signature for tuberculosis progression: A prospective cohort study
2019
A nonsputum blood test capable of predicting progression of healthy individuals to active tuberculosis (TB) before clinical symptoms manifest would allow targeted treatment to curb transmission. We aimed to develop a proteomic biomarker of risk of TB progression for ultimate translation into a point-of-care diagnostic.
Proteomic TB risk signatures were discovered in a longitudinal cohort of 6,363 Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected, HIV-negative South African adolescents aged 12-18 years (68% female) who participated in the Adolescent Cohort Study (ACS) between July 6, 2005 and April 23, 2007, through either active (every 6 months) or passive follow-up over 2 years. Forty-six individuals developed microbiologically confirmed TB disease within 2 years of follow-up and were selected as progressors; 106 nonprogressors, who remained healthy, were matched to progressors. Over 3,000 human proteins were quantified in plasma with a highly multiplexed proteomic assay (SOMAscan). Three hundred sixty-one proteins of differential abundance between progressors and nonprogressors were identified. A 5-protein signature, TB Risk Model 5 (TRM5), was discovered in the ACS training set and verified by blind prediction in the ACS test set. Poor performance on samples 13-24 months before TB diagnosis motivated discovery of a second 3-protein signature, 3-protein pair-ratio (3PR) developed using an orthogonal strategy on the full ACS subcohort. Prognostic performance of both signatures was validated in an independent cohort of 1,948 HIV-negative household TB contacts from The Gambia (aged 15-60 years, 66% female), longitudinally followed up for 2 years between March 5, 2007 and October 21, 2010, sampled at baseline, month 6, and month 18. Amongst these contacts, 34 individuals progressed to microbiologically confirmed TB disease and were included as progressors, and 115 nonprogressors were included as controls. Prognostic performance of the TRM5 signature in the ACS training set was excellent within 6 months of TB diagnosis (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC] 0.96 [95% confidence interval, 0.93-0.99]) and 6-12 months (AUC 0.76 [0.65-0.87]) before TB diagnosis. TRM5 validated with an AUC of 0.66 (0.56-0.75) within 1 year of TB diagnosis in the Gambian validation cohort. The 3PR signature yielded an AUC of 0.89 (0.84-0.95) within 6 months of TB diagnosis and 0.72 (0.64-0.81) 7-12 months before TB diagnosis in the entire South African discovery cohort and validated with an AUC of 0.65 (0.55-0.75) within 1 year of TB diagnosis in the Gambian validation cohort. Signature validation may have been limited by a systematic shift in signal magnitudes generated by differences between the validation assay when compared to the discovery assay. Further validation, especially in cohorts from non-African countries, is necessary to determine how generalizable signature performance is.
Both proteomic TB risk signatures predicted progression to incident TB within a year of diagnosis. To our knowledge, these are the first validated prognostic proteomic signatures. Neither meet the minimum criteria as defined in the WHO Target Product Profile for a progression test. More work is required to develop such a test for practical identification of individuals for investigation of incipient, subclinical, or active TB disease for appropriate treatment and care.
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Single-cell profiling reveals distinct subsets of CD14+ monocytes drive blood immune signatures of active tuberculosis
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Tippalagama, Rashmi
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Fisher, Michelle
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Vijayanand, Pandurangan
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Asymptomatic
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Blood
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CD14 antigen
2023
Previous studies suggest that monocytes are an important contributor to tuberculosis (TB)-specific immune signatures in blood.
Here, we carried out comprehensive single-cell profiling of monocytes in paired blood samples of active TB (ATB) patients at diagnosis and mid-treatment, and healthy controls.
At diagnosis, ATB patients displayed increased monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio, increased frequency of CD14+CD16- and intermediate CD14+CD16+ monocytes, and upregulation of interferon signaling genes that significantly overlapped with previously reported blood TB signatures in both CD14+ subsets. In this cohort, we identified additional transcriptomic and functional changes in intermediate CD14+CD16+ monocytes, such as the upregulation of inflammatory and MHC-II genes, and increased capacity to activate T cells, reflecting overall increased activation in this population. Single-cell transcriptomics revealed that distinct subsets of intermediate CD14+CD16+ monocytes were responsible for each gene signature, indicating significant functional heterogeneity within this population. Finally, we observed that changes in CD14+ monocytes were transient, as they were no longer observed in the same ATB patients mid-treatment, suggesting they are associated with disease resolution.
Together, our study demonstrates for the first time that both intermediate and classical monocytes individually contribute to blood immune signatures of ATB and identifies novel subsets and associated gene signatures that may hold disease relevance.
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Effects of interventional public health laws and regulations intended to reduce gambling-related harms: a realist review study protocol
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Fisher, Michelle
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Piper, Theodore
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Bedford, Kate
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Epidemiology
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Gambling
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Gambling - prevention & control
2025
IntroductionGambling is now widely acknowledged to be a major public health (PH) issue. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities conservatively estimated that gambling harm is associated with an annual cost of £1.05–£1.77 billion in England alone. Marionneau et al have categorised gambling harms into seven themes: (1) financial, (2) relationship/conflict, (3) emotional and psychological (mental health), (4) health decrements (physical health), (5) employment/education, (6) cultural and (7) criminal activity. In this understanding, gambling harms are not restricted to individual experiences: they also impact families, the wider community and society, and hence they require a whole systems, PH approach, anchored in population-level interventions to reduce harms. We aim to identify the effects of interventional PH laws and regulations on the harms associated with gambling.Methods and analysisWe limit our focus to interventional PH laws and regulations within a comprehensive search of scientific and legal databases, grey literature and books. Following Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, Study, Timing inclusion criteria, evidence will be screened and appraised in Covidence by two reviewers (MF and TP). Included evidence will be analysed and synthesised using a narrative synthesis approach. Methodological quality will be appraised using the relevant risk of bias tool. Randomised controlled trials will be assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias tool (RoB2), Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies - of Interventions (ROBINS-I) will be used for other non-randomised studies. Qualitative studies will be appraised using the EPPI reviewer software for systematic reviewing.Ethics and disseminationThe review protocol is registered with PROSPERO (International prospective register of systematic reviews) at the National Institute for Health Research and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York (CRD42024574502). We aim to define a theory of change and produce a context-mechanism-outcome framework with relevant experts using the findings. We plan to disseminate the findings through peer-reviewed publications, meetings with relevant experts and international conference presentations.
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Prospective multicentre head-to-head validation of host blood transcriptomic biomarkers for pulmonary tuberculosis by real-time PCR
2022
Background
Sensitive point-of-care screening tests are urgently needed to identify individuals at highest risk of tuberculosis. We prospectively tested performance of host-blood transcriptomic tuberculosis signatures.
Methods
Adults without suspicion of tuberculosis were recruited from five endemic South African communities. Eight parsimonious host-blood transcriptomic tuberculosis signatures were measured by microfluidic RT-qPCR at enrolment. Upper respiratory swab specimens were tested with a multiplex bacterial-viral RT-qPCR panel in a subset of participants. Diagnostic and prognostic performance for microbiologically confirmed prevalent and incident pulmonary tuberculosis was tested in all participants at baseline and during active surveillance through 15 months follow-up, respectively.
Results
Among 20,207 HIV-uninfected and 963 HIV-infected adults screened; 2923 and 861 were enroled. There were 61 HIV-uninfected (weighted prevalence 1.1%) and 10 HIV-infected (prevalence 1.2%) tuberculosis cases at baseline. Parsimonious signature diagnostic performance was superior among symptomatic (AUCs 0.85–0.98) as compared to asymptomatic (AUCs 0.61–0.78) HIV-uninfected participants. Thereafter, 24 HIV-uninfected and 9 HIV-infected participants progressed to incident tuberculosis (1.1 and 1.0 per 100 person-years, respectively). Among HIV-uninfected individuals, prognostic performance for incident tuberculosis occurring within 6–12 months was higher relative to 15 months. 1000 HIV-uninfected participants were tested for respiratory microorganisms and 413 HIV-infected for HIV plasma viral load; 7/8 signature scores were higher (
p
< 0.05) in participants with viral respiratory infections or detectable HIV viraemia than those without.
Conclusions
Several parsimonious tuberculosis transcriptomic signatures met triage test targets among symptomatic participants, and incipient test targets within 6 months. However, the signatures were upregulated with viral infection and offered poor specificity for diagnosing sub-clinical tuberculosis.
Mendelsohn et al. evaluated in a prospective multicentre validation study whether host-blood transcriptomic tuberculosis (TB) signatures could be used to find active cases of TB. Whilst most of the signatures met WHO Target Product Profile criteria for a triage test to diagnose symptomatic TB; most signatures did not meet the criteria for asymptomatic TB.
Plain Language Summary
Delays in tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis result in increased disease severity, risk of death, and infection of further individuals. The presence of symptoms is typically used to find people with TB. However, about half of individuals with TB are asymptomatic. We evaluated blood samples from individuals living in areas with high incidence of TB to see whether there were changes in components of the blood following infection with TB. Markers were identified that diagnosed TB in symptomatic adults, but were not as accurate to detect TB in those without symptoms. Most markers tested were able to accurately predict progression to TB within 6 months in HIV-uninfected individuals. These markers in the blood could enable the screening of symptomatic adults and predict TB risk, thus enabling targeting of therapy.
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