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The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...
Loss of oligodendrocyte ErbB receptor signaling leads to hypomyelination, reduced density of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons, and inhibitory function in the auditory cortex
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-02)
For a long time, myelin was thought to be restricted to excitatory neurons, and studies on dysmyelination focused primarily on excitatory cells. Recent evidence showed that axons of inhibitory neurons in the neocortex are ...
Robust causal inference of drug-drug interactions
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-03-30)
Development and Validation of Transportable, Clinically Applicable and Scalable Machine Learning Models for Acute Kidney Injury
(2024)
Acute kidney injury (AKI), a frequent complication in hospitalized patients, poses significant challenges due to its high incidence, short-term mortality, and substantial economic burden. Current AKI models utilizing ...
The Public Health Consequences of Compounding Disasters and Colonialism in Puerto Rico: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
(2024)
In recent decades, the ongoing climate crisis has disproportionately impacted historically marginalized populations globally through environmental hazards and disasters. Understanding the health impacts of multiple disaster ...
Bayesian Methods for snSMART Designs with External Controls and Dynamic Prediction of Landmark Survival Time in Cancer Clinical Trials
(2024)
In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and other rare diseases, recruiting patients into clinical trials is challenging. Additionally, assigning patients to long-term, multi-year placebo arms raises ethical and trial retention ...