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The Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 and Physical Distancing: The Need for Prevention and Early Intervention by Galea, Sandro, Merchant, Raina M, Lurie, Nicole

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Social Media and Emergency Preparedness in Response to Novel Coronavirus by Merchant, Raina M, Lurie, Nicole

“…This Viewpoint discusses the ways social media can be used as a critical tool in managing the COVID-19 outbreak, such as by directing users to trusted sources…”
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Evaluating the Potential Role of Social Media in Preventive Health Care by Merchant, Raina M

“…In this Viewpoint, Raina Merchant uses the 2019 launch of Facebook's Preventive Health tool, which makes preventive health recommendations based on user age…”
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Twitter as a Tool for Health Research: A Systematic Review by Sinnenberg, Lauren, Buttenheim, Alison M, Padrez, Kevin, Mancheno, Christina, Ungar, Lyle, Merchant, Raina M

“…Researchers have used traditional databases to study public health for decades. Less is known about the use of social media data sources, such as Twitter, for…”
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Part 1: Executive Summary: 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care by Merchant, Raina M., Topjian, Alexis A., Panchal, Ashish R., Cheng, Adam, Aziz, Khalid, Berg, Katherine M., Lavonas, Eric J., Magid, David J.

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Integrating Social Media into Emergency-Preparedness Efforts by Merchant, Raina M, Elmer, Stacy, Lurie, Nicole

“…Social media are changing the way people communicate both in their day-to-day lives and during disasters that threaten public health. Engaging with and using…”
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Facebook language predicts depression in medical records by Eichstaedt, Johannes C., Smith, Robert J., Merchant, Raina M., Ungar, Lyle H., Crutchley, Patrick, Preoţiuc-Pietro, Daniel, Asch, David A., Schwartz, H. Andrew

“…Depression, the most prevalent mental illness, is underdiagnosed and undertreated, highlighting the need to extend the scope of current screening methods…”
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Protecting the Value of Medical Science in the Age of Social Media and “Fake News” by Merchant, Raina M, Asch, David A

“…New threats to effective scientific communication make it more difficult to separate science from science fiction in which patients can be harmed by…”
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Public Health Messaging in an Era of Social Media by Merchant, Raina M, South, Eugenia C, Lurie, Nicole

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Phytostabilization of Mine Tailings in Arid and Semiarid Environments: An Emerging Remediation Technology by Mendez, Monica O., Maier, Raina M.

“…Objective: Unreclaimed mine tailings sites are a worldwide problem, with thousands of unvegetated, exposed tailings piles presenting a source of contamination…”
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Tracking Mental Health and Symptom Mentions on Twitter During COVID-19 by Guntuku, Sharath Chandra, Sherman, Garrick, Stokes, Daniel C., Agarwal, Anish K., Seltzer, Emily, Merchant, Raina M., Ungar, Lyle H.

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Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem by Chen, Yongjian, Neilson, Julia W., Kushwaha, Priyanka, Maier, Raina M., Barberán, Albert

“…The overwhelming taxonomic diversity and metabolic complexity of microorganisms can be simplified by a life-history classification; copiotrophs grow faster and…”
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Bacterial microbiota of the upper respiratory tract and childhood asthma by Depner, Martin, PhD, Ege, Markus J., MD, Cox, Michael J., PhD, Dwyer, Sarah, PhD, Walker, Alan W., PhD, Birzele, Lena T, Genuneit, Jon, MD, Horak, Elisabeth, MD, Braun-Fahrländer, Charlotte, MD, Danielewicz, Hanna, MD, PhD, Maier, Raina M., PhD, Moffatt, Miriam F., PhD, Cookson, William O., MD, Heederik, Dick, PhD, von Mutius, Erika, MD, Legatzki, Antje, PhD

“…Background Patients with asthma and healthy controls differ in bacterial colonization of the respiratory tract. The upper airways have been shown to reflect…”
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Evaluating the predictability of medical conditions from social media posts by Merchant, Raina M, Asch, David A, Crutchley, Patrick, Ungar, Lyle H, Guntuku, Sharath C, Eichstaedt, Johannes C, Hill, Shawndra, Padrez, Kevin, Smith, Robert J, Schwartz, H Andrew

“…We studied whether medical conditions across 21 broad categories were predictable from social media content across approximately 20 million words written by…”
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Twitter discourse reveals geographical and temporal variation in concerns about COVID-19 vaccines in the United States by Guntuku, Sharath Chandra, Buttenheim, Alison M., Sherman, Garrick, Merchant, Raina M.

“…The speed at which social media is propagating COVID-19 misinformation and its potential reach and impact is growing, yet little work has focused on the…”
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Structural Racism and Scientific Journals—A Teachable Moment by Merchant, Raina M, Del Rio, Carlos, Boulware, L. Ebony

“…This Viewpoint discusses the ways in which structural racism denies racial and ethnic minority groups opportunities for advancement in academic medicine and…”
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Psychological Language on Twitter Predicts County-Level Heart Disease Mortality by Eichstaedt, Johannes C., Schwartz, Hansen Andrew, Kern, Margaret L., Park, Gregory, Labarthe, Darwin R., Merchant, Raina M., Jha, Sneha, Agrawal, Megha, Dziurzynski, Lukasz A., Sap, Maarten, Weeg, Christopher, Larson, Emily E., Ungar, Lyle H., Seligman, Martin E. P.

“…Hostility and chronic stress are known risk factors for heart disease, but they are costly to assess on a large scale. We used language expressed on Twitter to…”
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Public Priorities and Concerns Regarding COVID-19 in an Online Discussion Forum: Longitudinal Topic Modeling by Stokes, Daniel C., Andy, Anietie, Guntuku, Sharath Chandra, Ungar, Lyle H., Merchant, Raina M.

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Soil microbial community and abiotic soil properties influence Zn and Cd hyperaccumulation differently in Arabidopsis halleri by Kushwaha, Priyanka, Neilson, Julia W., Maier, Raina M., Babst-Kostecka, Alicja

“…Soil contamination with trace metal(loid) elements (TME) is a global concern. This has focused interest on TME-tolerant plants, some of which can…”
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Resuscitation Education Science: Educational Strategies to Improve Outcomes From Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association by Cheng, Adam, Nadkarni, Vinay M, Mancini, Mary Beth, Hunt, Elizabeth A, Sinz, Elizabeth H, Merchant, Raina M, Donoghue, Aaron, Duff, Jonathan P, Eppich, Walter, Auerbach, Marc, Bigham, Blair L, Blewer, Audrey L, Chan, Paul S, Bhanji, Farhan

“…The formula for survival in resuscitation describes educational efficiency and local implementation as key determinants in survival after cardiac arrest…”
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