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Insufficient sleep in adolescents and young adults: an update on causes and consequences by Owens, Judith

“…Chronic sleep loss and associated sleepiness and daytime impairments in adolescence are a serious threat to the academic success, health, and safety of our…”
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KINECT 3: A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Valbenazine for Tardive Dyskinesia by Hauser, Robert A, Factor, Stewart A, Marder, Stephen R, Knesevich, Mary Ann, Ramirez, Paul M, Jimenez, Roland, Burke, Joshua, Liang, Grace S, O’Brien, Christopher F

“…Objective:Tardive dyskinesia is a persistent movement disorder induced by dopamine receptor blockers, including antipsychotics. Valbenazine (NBI-98854) is a…”
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Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How Blood Operators Can Prepare for the Next Pandemic by Drews, Steven J, O'Brien, Sheila F

“…Humans interact with virus-infected animal hosts, travel globally, and maintain social networks that allow for novel viruses to emerge and develop pandemic…”
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Prevalence of Hepatitis B in Canadian First-Time Blood Donors: Association with Social Determinants of Health by O'Brien, Sheila F, Ehsani-Moghaddam, Behrouz, Goldman, Mindy, Drews, Steven J

“…Hepatitis B is transmitted sexually, by blood contact, and vertically from mother to child. Chronic hepatitis B is often seen in immigrants from…”
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Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online by Shen, Cuihua, Kasra, Mona, Pan, Wenjing, Bassett, Grace A, Malloch, Yining, O’Brien, James F

“…Fake or manipulated images propagated through the Web and social media have the capacity to deceive, emotionally distress, and influence public opinions and…”
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How do I interpret a confidence interval? by O'Brien, Sheila F., Yi, Qi Long

“…A 95% confidence interval (CI) of the mean is a range with an upper and lower number calculated from a sample. Because the true population mean is unknown,…”
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Contraception for adolescents by Braverman, Paula K., Adelman, William P., Alderman, Elizabeth M., Breuner, Cora C., Levine, David A., Marcell, Arik V., O’Brien, Rebecca F.

“…Contraception is a pillar in reducing adolescent pregnancy rates. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians develop a working knowledge…”
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An efficient, non-viral dendritic vector for gene delivery in tissue engineering by Walsh, D P, Heise, A, O’Brien, F J, Cryan, S-A

“…Recent developments within the field of tissue engineering (TE) have shown that biomaterial scaffold systems can be augmented via the incorporation of gene…”
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SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence among Canadian Blood Donors: The Advance of Omicron by O'Brien, Sheila F, Caffrey, Niamh, Yi, Qi-Long, Pambrun, Chantale, Drews, Steven J

“…With the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in late 2021, Canadian public health case/contact testing was scaled back due to high infection rates with…”
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Diseases of Gastropoda by O'Brien, Michelle F, Pellett, Sarah

“…Gastropods (class Gastropoda) form the largest of the classes in the phylum Mollusca and inhabit terrestrial, fresh water and marine environments. A large…”
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COVID-19 Case Age Distribution: Correction for Differential Testing by Age by Fisman, David N, Greer, Amy L, Brankston, Gabrielle, Hillmer, Michael, O'Brien, Sheila F, Drews, Steven J, Tuite, Ashleigh R

“…Despite expected initial universal susceptibility to a novel pandemic pathogen like SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic has been characterized by higher observed…”
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Barriers and enablers to and strategies for promoting domestic plasma donation throughout the world: Overarching protocol for three systematic reviews by Etherington, Cole, Palumbo, Amelia, Holloway, Kelly, Meyer, Samantha, Labrecque, Maximillian, Rubini, Kyle, Shorr, Risa, Welch, Vivian, Gibson, Emily, Foster, Terrie, Haw, Jennie, Vesnaver, Elisabeth, Maharshi, Manavi T, O'Brien, Sheila F, MacPherson, Paul, Dogba, Joyce, Steed, Tony, Goldman, Mindy, Presseau, Justin

“…The growing demand for plasma protein products has caused concern in many countries who largely rely on importing plasma products produced from plasma…”
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence: Navigating the absence of a gold standard by Saeed, Sahar, O'Brien, Sheila F, Abe, Kento, Yi, Qi-Long, Rathod, Bhavisha, Wang, Jenny, Fazel-Zarandi, Mahya, Tuite, Ashleigh, Fisman, David, Wood, Heidi, Colwill, Karen, Gingras, Anne-Claude, Drews, Steven J

“…Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence studies bridge the gap left from case detection, to estimate the true…”
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Epidemiology of Hepatitis C over 28 years of monitoring Canadian blood donors: Insight into a low-risk undiagnosed population by O'Brien, Sheila F, Ehsani-Moghaddam, Behrouz, Osmond, Lori, Fan, Wenli, Goldman, Mindy, Drews, Steven J

“…Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that can progress to cirrhosis and liver cancer. About 70% (50-80%) of infections…”
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Donor education – times change and we with time by OʼBrien, Sheila F.

“…See article on page 1747–1755, in this issue; See article on page 1756–1764, in this issue…”
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Hepatitis B Blood Donor Screening Data: An Under-Recognized Resource for Canadian Public Health Surveillance by O'Brien, Sheila F, Reedman, Cassandra N, Osiowy, Carla, Bolotin, Shelly, Yi, Qi-Long, Lourenço, Lillian, Lewin, Antoine, Binka, Mawuena, Caffrey, Niamh, Drews, Steven J

“…Hepatitis B surveillance is essential to achieving Canada's goal of eliminating hepatitis B by 2030. Hepatitis B rates, association of infection with vaccine…”
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Origin and proliferation of multiple-drug resistance in bacterial pathogens by Chang, Hsiao-Han, Cohen, Ted, Grad, Yonatan H, Hanage, William P, O'Brien, Thomas F, Lipsitch, Marc

“…Many studies report the high prevalence of multiply drug-resistant (MDR) strains. Because MDR infections are often significantly harder and more expensive to…”
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Transient P2X7 Receptor Antagonism Produces Lasting Reductions in Spontaneous Seizures and Gliosis in Experimental Temporal Lobe Epilepsy by Jimenez-Pacheco, Alba, Diaz-Hernandez, Miguel, Arribas-Blázquez, Marina, Sanz-Rodriguez, Amaya, Olivos-Oré, Luis A, Artalejo, Antonio R, Alves, Mariana, Letavic, Michael, Miras-Portugal, M Teresa, Conroy, Ronan M, Delanty, Norman, Farrell, Michael A, O'Brien, Donncha F, Bhattacharya, Anindya, Engel, Tobias, Henshall, David C

“…Neuroinflammation is thought to contribute to the pathogenesis and maintenance of temporal lobe epilepsy, but the underlying cell and molecular mechanisms are…”
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Development and in vitro investigation of a biodegradable mesh for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence by MacCraith, E., Joyce, M., do Amaral, R. J. F. C., O’Brien, F. J., Davis, N. F.

“…Introduction and hypothesis The use of polypropylene (PP) mesh for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgery has declined because of safety concerns. The aim…”
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Epidemiology of Hospitalized Patients with Babesiosis, United States, 2010-2016 by Bloch, Evan M, Day, Jonathan R, Krause, Peter J, Kjemtrup, Anne, O'Brien, Sheila F, Tobian, Aaron A R, Goel, Ruchika

“…Babesia spp. are tickborne parasites that cause the clinical infection babesiosis, which has an increasing incidence in the United States. We performed an…”
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