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Various attempts have been made at encouraging cancer education in British schools, and while some have had limited success, there is still a reluctance amongst teachers to adopt this subject in the classroom. The study discussed in this paper was an attempt to ascertain the current status of cancer education in Englis…

The aim of this study was to produce a word list suitable for children aged between 2 and 6 years with English as a second language (E2L) to be used in the format of a toy test to evaluate hearing status. Two lists of English words were compiled using words previously shown to be among the early English words learned b…

En(a-) and EnaEn red cells from different sources were studied using biochemical and serological methods. The results suggest that Finnish En(a-) erythrocytes contain only "N" but no M antigenic properties. Data on the members of the English En(a-) family suggest that English En(a-) red cells exhibit a combination of t…

PURPOSE: This study compares the readability and quality of ChatGPT-4o-generated and American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) patient handouts in English and Spanish, as AAO materials are expert developed but not publicly accessible. METHODS: Ten AAO handouts on common ocular conditions were obtained in English and Spa…

Over half the world's population are bilingual. Despite this, practitioners often advise parents of autistic children to teach their child one dominant national language and limit their child's exposure to community languages. Limited research with autistic children's carers has shown that this monolingual approach imp…

INTRODUCTION: The Australian Cancer Plan prioritises individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds as a focus of interventions aimed at improving cancer care experiences and outcomes. We aimed to investigate differences in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) risk category classi…

BACKGROUND: Limited current information exists regarding discospondylitis within breeds commonly affected by congenital vertebral body malformations. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES: Report the prevalence of discospondylitis in English and French bulldogs and investigate for possible associations of discospondylitis with congen…

OBJECTIVE: Most surgical journals are published in English, representing a challenge for researchers from non-Anglophone countries. We describe the implementation, workflow, outcomes, and lessons learned from the WORLD NEUROSURGERY Global Champions Program (GCP), a novel journal-specific English language editing progra…

BACKGROUND: Shadow coaching, a type of one-on-one provider counseling by trained peers, is an effective strategy for improving provider behaviors and patient interactions, but its effects on improving patient experience for English- and Spanish-preferring patients is unknown. OBJECTIVE: Assess effects of shadow coachi…

INTRODUCTION: In order to address health disparities, it is important to understand how vulnerable individuals seek information. This study used an adapted version of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) administered in English, Spanish, and Chinese to describe the behaviors and preferences of a divers…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to verify the effect of age, education and sex on Miami Prospective Memory Test (MPMT) performance obtained at baseline of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) by neurologically healthy French- and English-speaking subsamples of participants (N = 18,511). METHO…

Sonia is a 4 years 1 month-year-old girl with Waardenburg syndrome and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss who had bilateral cochlear implants at 2 years 7 months years of age. She is referred to Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics by her speech/language pathologist because of concerns that her language skills are not…

BACKGROUND: Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a rare genetic disorder caused by a defect in the metabolism of phenylalanine (PHE) resulting in elevated blood and brain PHE levels, and leading to cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial problems. The phenylketonuria - quality of life (PKU-QOL) questionnaire was the first self-admi…

OBJECTIVE: To assess how English language use by Hispanic women affects their preferences for participating in decision making and information seeking regarding medical care. METHODS: The study included 235 Hispanic women aged 35-61 years participating in a larger multicenter study, the Ethnicity, Needs, and Decisions…

In two experiments, we examine English monolinguals' and Spanish-English bilinguals' ability to predict an upcoming pronoun referent based on the(IC) bias of the verb. In an eye-tracking experiment, the monolingual data show anticipation of the upcoming referent for NP1-bias verbs. For bilinguals, the same effect is fo…

While all languages differentiate speech sounds by manner of articulation, none of the acoustic correlates proposed to date seem to account for how these contrasts are encoded in the speech signal. The present study describes power spectral entropy (PSE), which quantifies the amount of potential information conveyed in…

Health disparities between English-proficient and limited English-proficient (LEP) groups in the United States have been widely documented. Provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including increased funding to community health centers and resources to help consumers who are purchasing Marketplace coverage afford…

De scriptions of lenition have often assumed that connected speech reductions are the phonetic precursors of phonological lenition processes. In this article, production of intervocalic voiced stops during reading in American English is examined to determine whether connected speech reduction processes mirror the stage…

William Lawrence was a leading English ophthalmic surgeon in the middle of the 19th century. This article briefly discusses his life, career, and well-known textbook (Treatise on Diseases of the Eye). His book and 3 others were the best-known English texts on diseases of the eye of the 1830s and 1840s. The 3 others wer…

Findings from the Health Surveys for England indicate that Bangladeshi and Black Caribbean men report higher current smoking rates than other men, while white and Black Caribbean women smoke more frequently than other women. Deprivation explains differences in current smoking rates between Bangladeshi and Black Caribbe…