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Jan 20, 2025 | 
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com | Queen’s College Belfast
A total of 3270 articles were identified; titles and abstracts of 2572 records were screened after removing duplicates, and 42 were considered eligible for inclusion (Fig. 1). The characteristics of the eligible 42 studies are in Additional file 1: Table S5. Of these, 13 studies were conducted in children, and 29 in adolescents/adults with sample sizes ranging from 27 to 1974 and 27 to 1945 patients, respectively. The years of publication ranged from 1991 to 2022.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
bmccancer.biomedcentral.com | Mary Frances |Queen’s College Belfast
MethodsThe FEDORA trial is a single-arm, open-label, phase II clinical trial in patients with primary or secondary MF that is intermediate-1 with palpable splenomegaly of > 5cm, intermediate-2, or high-risk according to DIPSS [28], and who require treatment.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com | Biomedical Science |Queen’s College Belfast
Heterozygous Trpv2+/– and wildtype Trpv2+/+ rats (Sprague Dawley background) were bred and maintained until 3 months of age for the study. Original breeders were generated from SAGE labs, as previously described [19], and both groups were obtained from heterozygous breeders as homozygous Trpv2−/− animals are not viable. Rats were housed in the Biological Services Unit (BSU) at Queen’s University Belfast under SPF and normal lighting conditions (12-hour light/dark cycle).
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | John McStravick |Queen’s College Belfast |Alex Walker
John McStravick explains what is – and what is not – happening at Northern Ireland’s points of entry. He argues pushing back the implementation date for the introduction of additional trade processes is further evidence of a thawing in UK-EU relations but also exposes the Windsor Framework’s limitations.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com | Queen’s College Belfast
ReferencesLlop-Medina L, Fu Y, Garcés-Ferrer J, Doñate-Martínez A. Palliative care in older people with multimorbidities: a scoping review on the palliative care needs of patients, carers, and health professionals. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(6):3195. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar World Health Organisation. Palliative care: key facts. 2020.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Queen’s College Belfast
ReferencesCouncil for the Curriculum E and A (CEA). Relationships and sexuality education guidance: an update for post-primary schools. Belfast; 2015. Council for the Curriculum E and A (CEA). Relationships and sexuality education guidance: an update for primary schools. Belfast; 2015. Department for Education (DfE).
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com | Queen’s College Belfast
Analysis identified three experiential statements embedded within two personal experiential themes. See Table 2 for the statements and personal experiential themes identified across the six transcripts. The first personal experiential theme related to participants’ experiencing an extreme lack of something across their lives. The participants generally thought there was nothing wrong with them mentally; they did not believe they needed help despite being prompted to help-seek by others.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com | Outcomes Research |Queen’s College Belfast
This noninterventional, cross-sectional study included a DCE survey instrument to elicit preferences for different attributes of oral antipsychotic medications [14, 15]. The DCE methodology is based on the principle that treatments are characterized by various attributes and that a respondent’s choice of treatment is determined by their utility gain with one alternative compared with another, which is a function of the utility of each attribute considered, and of the respondent’s preferences [7].
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
bmcnutr.biomedcentral.com | Queen’s College Belfast
The data in Table 1 presents the demographic data of the study participants. The mean age in months of children in this study was higher in the Oshikoto region (37 ± 13.6) compared to Oshana region (33 ± 13.06). Among the children who participated in the study from Oshana region, more than half (56%) were females while 44% were males, while for Oshikoto region, 51% were females and 49% were male.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Queen’s College Belfast
The aim of the survey was to collect stakeholder views on the primary school food system. However, as parents were the main responders, the more detailed analyses has focused on parents. The parent responses highlight they have lots of opinions and suggestions about what they feel works, does not work and what an ‘ideal school food system’ should look like. There are some consistent views across stakeholders (headteachers, teachers and parents).
