Lancet
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Improvements in acute burn care have enabled patients to survive massive burns that would have once been fatal. Now up to 70% of patients develop hypertrophic scars after burns. ⋯ Such approaches often fail, and modulation of the established scar is continued although the optimal indication, timing, and combination of therapies have yet to be established. The need for novel treatments is paramount, and future efforts to improve outcomes and quality of life should include optimisation of wound healing to attenuate or prevent hypertrophic scarring, well-designed trials to confirm treatment efficacy, and further elucidation of molecular mechanisms to allow development of new preventive and therapeutic strategies.
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Despite its dramatic improvement, China's tuberculosis burden is still high according to the 2015 WHO TB report. Evidence show that experienced physicians do better in reducing delay diagnosis and patient mortality and are more likely to follow the treatment guidelines. However, in China, few studies have focused on physicians specialised in tuberculosis; and these few studies were mainly centred on the prevalence and risk factors among them. We assessed the occupational challenges of these physicians in China. ⋯ Natural Science Foundation of China (71203068 and 71573095) and the China National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Gates Foundation TB Project (51914). The funders had no role in the study.
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Medical economic burden of the ageing population: a multistage sampling analysis of 3 532 517 cases.
Population ageing and the economic burden of aged disease have become topical issues in global health. The situation seems worse in China, which has 140 million people older than 65 years. We analysed the medical economic burden in Liaoning Province, China, and laid stress on the population aged 65 years and older. ⋯ National Natural Science Foundation of China (71673299) and the Seventeenth Subject by China Health Economics Association (CHEA1617070102).