This could be a major contributing factor in explaining that the sex-specific differences in perinatal morbidity and mortality may be due to sexually dimorphic placental adaptations during pregnancy and the relatively high neonatal morbidity and ongoing male disadvantage seen in Neonatal Units.
Bill Leak's racist cartoon has added nothing constructive to the "crucial debate" about the ongoing discrimination and disadvantage faced by First Nations people in Australia's criminal justice system.
In Timor-Leste, explosive anger is associated with ongoing socio-economic disadvantage [ 43] and past trauma exposure [ 20].
Attempts to develop new drugs in this class to overcome these disadvantages are ongoing.
The forced removal of communities from their land, the systematic denial of culture and language, the suppression of political and human rights, and the forced removal of children, have all contributed to an environment of poor mental health compounded by ongoing social and economic disadvantage [ 34].
We will discuss the recent achievements attained in the field of regenerative medicine by using proteins and GAGs, their merits and disadvantages and the ongoing challenges to move the current concepts to practical clinical application.
Since Ritter and Randolph (1976) performed the first detailed study of the functional outcome of simultaneous bilateral THA, there has been an ongoing discussion regarding benefits and disadvantages of one-stage versus two-stage procedures [ 4].
"These include the ongoing effects of colonisation, social disadvantage, drug and alcohol misuse, poor safety standards and unsafe roads and living environments.
For each city we measure the ongoing intensification of spatially concentrated disadvantage and the pace at which 'disadvantage epicentres' have continued to shift outwards in the direction of the metropolitan periphery.
This analysis contributes to an ongoing discourse about the advantages and disadvantages of the UK and the US healthcare systems by calling attention to the role of patient perspectives in this conversation.
