Helen Johnson

Oct 17, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Helen Johnson |Heather Lin |Yu Shen |Emilia J. Diego

IMPORTANCE: Patients should have an active role in decisions about pursuing or forgoing specific therapies in treatment de-escalation trials. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate longitudinal patient-reported outcomes (PROs) encompassing decisional comfort and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among patients who elected to enroll in a clinical trial evaluating radiotherapy alone, without breast surgery, for invasive breast cancers with exceptional response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST).

Jun 7, 2024 | channel4.com | Georgina Lee |Helen Johnson

By Georgina Lee and Helen JohnsonRishi Sunak claimed several times in this week’s ITV Leaders’ debate that “there are £2,000 worth of tax rises coming for every working family in this country”. But does the figure add up? FactCheck takes a look. Did the Treasury calculate Labour would cost the taxpayer £38bn? The Conservatives claim that Labour party policies would add £38bn to public spending over the years 2025-26 to 2028-29.

May 29, 2024 | channel4.com | Helen Johnson

The government promised one million more homes in England by the end of the parliament and 300,000 a year by the mid-2020s. But has it met these targets? FactCheck takes a look. Has the Conservative government built a million new homes since the last election? The Conservatives promised in their 2019 manifesto that they would build “at least a million” new homes over their term in office – that is, between the last election and this one, also known as “the parliament”.

May 23, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Noam Vogt-Vincent |April J Burt |Helen Johnson

AbstractThe tropical southwest Indian Ocean is a coral biodiversity hotspot, with remote reefs physically connected by larval dispersal through eddies and a complex set of equatorial and boundary currents.

May 2, 2024 | thelancet.com | Andrew J. Shattock |Swiss Tropical |Helen Johnson |So Yoon Sim

SummaryWHO, as requested by its member states, launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974 to make life-saving vaccines available to all globally. To mark the 50-year anniversary of EPI, we sought to quantify the public health impact of vaccination globally since the programme's inception. In this modelling study, we used a suite of mathematical and statistical models to estimate the global and regional public health impact of 50 years of vaccination against 14 pathogens in EPI.