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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson, Amy Maxmen, Alexandra Witze, Lauren Wolf
Summary: Scientists are calling for more inspiring leadership, citing geneticist Eric Lander's reputation as a bully.
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Economics
Stephen T. Parente, Charles E. Phelps
Summary: In this study, we aim to develop methods that maximize researcher access to electronic health records (EHRs) data for health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) while strongly protecting patients' privacy rights. We analyzed alternative organizational structures and intellectual property rights assignments and found that new organizations and funding are required to create new HEOR data systems. We also emphasized the importance of complete health insurance coverage to ensure maximal patient participation in transmitting data to trusted third parties (TTPs).
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Luke Taylor
Summary: Researchers administering shots to politicians and their family members, in violation of trial regulations, have sparked public outrage and damaged trust.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Myroslava Lesiv, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Marcel Buchhorn, Linda See, Martina Durauer, Ivelina Georgieva, Martin Jung, Florian Hofhansl, Katharina Schulze, Andrii Bilous, Volodymyr Blyshchyk, Liudmila Mukhortova, Carlos Luis Munoz Brenes, Leonid Krivobokov, Stephan Ntie, Khongor Tsogt, Stephan Alexander Pietsch, Elena Tikhonova, Moonil Kim, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Yuan-Fong Su, Roma Zadorozhniuk, Flavius Sorin Sirbu, Kripal Panging, Svitlana Bilous, Sergii B. Kovalevskii, Florian Kraxner, Ahmed Harb Rabia, Roman Vasylyshyn, Rekib Ahmed, Petro Diachuk, Serhii S. Kovalevskyi, Khangsembou Bungnamei, Kusumbor Bordoloi, Andrii Churilov, Olesia Vasylyshyn, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah, Anatolii P. Tertyshnyi, Anup Saikia, Ziga Malek, Kuleswar Singha, Roman Feshchenko, Reinhard Prestele, Ibrar ul Hassan Akhtar, Kiran Sharma, Galyna Domashovets, Seth A. Spawn-Lee, Oleksii Blyshchyk, Oleksandr Slyva, Mariia Ilkiv, Oleksandr Melnyk, Vitalii Sliusarchuk, Anatolii Karpuk, Andrii Terentiev, Valentin Bilous, Kateryna Blyshchyk, Maxim Bilous, Nataliia Bogovyk, Ivan Blyshchyk, Sergey Bartalev, Mikhail Yatskov, Bruno Smets, Piero Visconti, Ian Mccallum, Michael Obersteiner, Steffen Fritz
Summary: Spatially explicit information on forest management is crucial for understanding forest status and planning sustainable management. This study developed a globally consistent forest management map and reference dataset using a combination of expert and crowdsourcing campaigns, as well as satellite imagery. The map provides high spatial detail and moderate accuracy.
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Biodiversity Conservation
Varsha Vijay, Christopher R. Field, Florian Gollnow, Kelly K. Jones
Summary: This study investigated changes in public information seeking about topics at the intersection of health and the environment during the COVID-19 pandemic using internet search data from the United States. The findings revealed a sharp increase in public interest in 'wildlife trade', 'bats', and 'pangolins' early in the pandemic. The network analyses showed an increasing connectivity between coronavirus and conservation keywords, indicating a greater interest in intersectional approaches to pandemic prevention.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jessica Mozersky, Tristan McIntosh, Heidi A. Walsh, Meredith Parsons, Melody Goodman, James M. DuBois
Summary: Qualitative health data sharing is rare in the U.S., with main barriers being lack of participant permission, data sensitivity, and breach of trust. Researchers are more willing to share if participants agree and sharing can increase societal impact of their research. Key resources to increase willingness to share include funding, guidance, and de-identification assistance.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, Christine Y. Lu
Summary: Research participants expressed concerns about the health-relatedness and privacy of their digital data. They believed that social media data, email data, text message data, Google search history data, online purchase history data, electronic medical record data, fitness tracker and wearable data, credit card statement data, and genetic data are health-related. However, they did not consider music streaming data, Yelp review and rating data, ride-sharing history data, tax records and other income history data, voting history data, and geolocation data to be health-related. Participants were also worried about fraud, information sharing without consent, and misuse of their personal information by online companies and websites.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Ann Annis, Crista Reaves, Jessica Sender, Sherry Bumpus
Summary: This study aimed to identify and summarize federally sponsored health-related data sources that are accessible to researchers in the public domain. A systematic mapping review was conducted to include 57 out of 106 data sources that met the inclusion criteria. These data sources provide valuable insights into important health issues and the nation's healthcare system.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Pin Deng, Hongshuo Shi, Xuyue Pan, Huan Liang, Shulong Wang, Junde Wu, Wei Zhang, Fasen Huang, Xiaojie Sun, Hanjie Zhu, Zhaojun Chen
Summary: This study reviewed the research status and hotspots in the field of DFU over the past 17 years and provided analysis and summary of potential research directions in the future.
JOURNAL OF DIABETES RESEARCH
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson, Max Kozlov, Amy Maxmen, Alexandra Witze
Summary: This article assesses whether the US president has fulfilled his promise of making evidence-based decisions in his first year in office.
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Urology & Nephrology
Giovanni S. Marchini, Kauy V. M. Faria, Felippe L. Neto, Fabio Cesar Miranda Torricelli, Alexandre Danilovic, Fabio Carvalho Vicentini, Carlos A. Batagello, Miguel Srougi, William C. Nahas, Eduardo Mazzucchi
Summary: The study revealed a significant increase in online searches for medical information related to stone disease. The public tends to search for generic terms related to symptoms or the disease itself. States with hotter weather showed higher RSV than colder states. There is a discrepancy between public and medical community medical terms.
WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Giovanni De Toni, Cristian Consonni, Alberto Montresor
Summary: This study demonstrates the feasibility of accurately estimating influenza-like illnesses incidence in four European countries using machine learning models and Wikipedia page views, without the need for expert supervision. By leveraging unconventional data sources and innovative algorithms, the model can achieve state-of-the-art results in forecasting disease impact.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Krista Neumann, Susan M. Mason, Kriszta Farkas, N. Jeanie Santaularia, Jennifer Ahern, Corinne A. Riddell
Summary: This study provides a detailed method for using internet search data to measure epidemiologically relevant exposures or health outcomes. It includes five iterative steps and presents a case study to demonstrate the application of this method.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Hersh Ravkin, Elad Yom-Tov, Lior Nesher
Summary: This study investigates the impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions implemented worldwide to combat COVID-19 on the seasonal pattern of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The findings suggest that implemented interventions, particularly those affecting population mobility, are associated with changes in RSV incidence.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Heidi Ledford
Summary: A controversial policy change poses a threat to large-scale social-media studies.
