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Storage and disposal of medical cannabis among patients with cancer: Assessing the risk of diversion and unintentional digestion

By: Sznitman S.R., Goldberg V., Sheinman-Yuffe H., Flechter E., Bar-Sela G.
Published in: Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND: Increasingly more jurisdictions worldwide are legalizing medical cannabis. Major concerns related to such po (more…)

Mitigating pharmaceutical waste exposures: Policy and program considerations

By: Amster E.D.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Pharmaceutical disposal and the environmental fate of medication metabolites directly impacts the public’s health in two (more…)

Health care disparities among persons with comorbid schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease: A case-control epidemiological study

By: Gal G., Munitz H., Levav I.
Published in: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Aims. Studies showed health care disparities among persons with comorbid schizophrenia and cardiovascular disease (CVD), (more…)

Oracle estimation of parametric models under boundary constraints

By: Wong K.Y., Goldberg Y., Fine J.P.
Published in: Biometrics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: In many classical estimation problems, the parameter space has a boundary. In most cases, the standard asymptotic proper (more…)

Childhood conditions and current physical performance among non-institutionalized individuals aged 50+ in Israel

By: Weinstein G.
Published in: European Journal of Ageing
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood have been previously linked with high risk of various health conditions. H (more…)

The meaning of life in criminal law

By: Haber E.
Published in: Rutgers Law Review
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Inflation and deflation change the value of money. Policymakers have used this rationale to amend legislation fixed to a (more…)

Verbal Violence Experiences of Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses

By: Karni-Vizer N., Salzer M.S.
Published in: Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective: Trauma experienced by individuals with serious mental illnesses extends beyond physical and sexual abuse. Thi (more…)

Overcoming communication challenges in integrative supportive cancer care: The integrative physician, the psycho-oncologist, and the patient

By: Ben-Arye E., Shavit E., Wiental H., Schiff E., Agour O., Samuels N.
Published in: Complementary Therapies in Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Complementary/integrative medicine (CIM) services are increasingly being integrated into conventional support (more…)

Modifiable risk factors for gestational diabetes recurrence

By: Schwartz N., Green M.S., Yefet E., Nachum Z.
Published in: Endocrine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The literature on risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus recurrence is inconsistent and sometimes contradictory. (more…)

Cancer incidence in Holocaust male survivors—An Israeli cohort study

By: Keinan-Boker L., Goldbourt U.
Published in: International Journal of Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Previous studies, often using proxy exposure assessment and not controlling for individual risk factors, suggested highe (more…)

Automated identification of wound information in clinical notes of patients with heart diseases: Developing and validating a natural language processing application

By: Topaz M., Lai K., Dowding D., Lei V.J., Zisberg A., Bowles K.H., Zhou L.
Published in: International Journal of Nursing Studies
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Electronic health records are being increasingly used by nurses with up to 80% of the health data recorded as (more…)

The relationship between sensory processing patterns, alexithymia, traumatic childhood experiences, and quality of life among patients with unipolar and bipolar disorders

By: Serafini G., Gonda X., Pompili M., Rihmer Z., Amore M., Engel-Yeger B.
Published in: Child Abuse and Neglect
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Several studies documented the involvement of sensory perception in emotional processes. The long-term consequences of t (more…)

Light at night and breast cancer incidence in Connecticut: An ecological study of age group effects

By: Portnov B.A., Stevens R.G., Samociuk H., Wakefield D., Gregorio D.I.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The aim of this study was to test the prediction that within the state of Connecticut, USA, communities with high nightt (more…)

Unemployment risk at 2 and 4 years following colorectal cancer diagnosis: a population based study

By: Rottenberg Y., Ratzon N.Z., Cohen M., Hubert A., Uziely B., de Boer A.G.E.M.
Published in: European Journal of Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background About half of colorectal patients are diagnosed less than 65 years of age and they have a relatively high cur (more…)

Identifying a system of predominant negative symptoms: Network analysis of three randomized clinical trials

By: Levine S.Z., Leucht S.
Published in: Schizophrenia Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Reasons for the recent mixed success of research into negative symptoms may be informed by conceptualizing ne (more…)

Ethnic origin and access to electronic health services

By: Mesch G.S.
Published in: Health Informatics Journal
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: E-health holds the promise of changing the delivery of health care by extending and enhancing its reach, and democratizi (more…)

Relationships between body mass index and sleep quality and duration in adults 70 years and older

By: Shochat T., Shefer-Hilel G., Zisberg A.
Published in: Sleep Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective Associations between sleep and body mass index (BMI) are age dependent. In older adults, BMI norms representin (more…)

Help seeking in school by Israeli Arab minority adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems: Results from the Galilee Study

By: Daeem R., Mansbach-Kleinfeld I., Farbstein I., Khamaisi R., Ifrah A., Sheikh Muhammad A., Fennig S., Apter A.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Many distressed minority adolescents with little access to professional mental health services use teachers (more…)

A feasibility study to assess the validity of administrative data sources and self-reported information of breast cancer survivors

By: Hamood R., Hamood H., Merhasin I., Keinan-Boker L.
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Cancer survivorship has increasingly become the focus of research due to progress in early detection and adv (more…)

‘Normalizing’ the malignant phenotype of luminal breast cancer cells via alpha(v)beta(3)-integrin

By: Abu-Tayeh H., Weidenfeld K., Zhilin-Roth A., Schif-Zuck S., Thaler S., Cotarelo C., Tan T.Z., Thiery J.P., Green J.E., Klorin G., Sabo E., Sleeman J.P., Tzukerman M., Barkan D.
Published in: Cell Death and Disease
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Reestablishing tissue organization of breast cancer cells into acini was previously shown to override their malignant ph (more…)