Robert J. Adams

Health literacy - A new concept for general practice? (2009)

Robert J. Adams, Ilona Kickbusch

Health literacy is the ability to understand and interpret the meaning of health information in written, spoken or digital form and how this motivates people to embrace or disregard actions relating...

The North West Adelaide Health Study: detailed methods and baseline segmentation of a cohort for selected chronic diseases (2006)

Grant, Janet F, Chittleborough, Catherine R, Taylor, Anne W, Dal Grande, Eleonora, Wilson, David H, Phillips, Patrick J, ...

Abstract The North West Adelaide Health Study is a population-based biomedical cohort study investigating the prevalence of a number of chronic conditions and health-related risk factors along a...

Do people with risky behaviours participate in biomedical cohort studies? (2006)

Taylor, Anne W, Grande, Eleonora, Gill, Tiffany, Chittleborough, Catherine R, Wilson, David H, Adams, Robert J, ...

Abstract Background Analysis was undertaken on data from randomly selected participants of a bio-medical cohort study to assess representativeness. The research hypotheses was that there was no...

Genetic risk factors for cerebrovascular disease in children with sickle cell disease: design of a case-control association study and genomewide screen (2003)

Adams, Gaye T, Snieder, Harold, McKie, Virgil C, Clair, Betsy, Brambilla, Donald, Adams, Robert J, ...

Abstract Background The phenotypic heterogeneity of sickle cell disease is likely the result of multiple genetic factors and their interaction with the sickle mutation. High transcranial doppler...

Adverse drug events and medication errors in Australia (2003)

Runciman, William B., Roughead, Elizabeth E., Semple, Susan J., Adams, Robert J.

Purpose. To review information about adverse drug events (ADEs) and medication errors in Australia. Data sources. Systematic literature reviews and reports from data collections of the Australian...

Successful DNA immunization against measles: neutralizing antibody against either the hemagglutinin or fusion glycoprotein protects rhesus macaques without evidence of atypical measles (2000)

Polack, Fernando P., Lee, Sok H., Permar, Sallie R., Manyara, Elizabeth, Nousari, Hossein G., Jeng, Yaikah, ...

Measles remains a principal cause of worldwide mortality, in part because young infants cannot be immunized effectively. Development of new vaccines has been hindered by previous experience with a...

A Class of Robust and Efficient Iterative Methods for Wave Scattering Problems (1998)

William A. Davis, Werner Kohler, Warren L. Stutzman, Robert J. Adams, Robert J. Adams

Significant effort has recently been directed towards the development of numerically efficient iterative techniques for the solution of boundary integral equation formulations of time harmonic...

Acute stroke treatment trials in the United States. Rethinking strategies for success (1995)

Adams, Robert J., Fisher, Marc, Furlan, Anthony J., Del Zoppo, Gregory

In this editorial, we present some of the important issues facing those who design and implement acute stroke treatment studies. Our opinions pertain primarily to the medical environment in the...

High Viral Load in the Cerebrospinal Fluid and Brain Correlates with Severity of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Encephalitis

Zink, M. Christine, Suryanarayana, Kalachar, Mankowski, Joseph L., Shen, Anding, Piatak, Michael, Spelman, Jeffrey P., ...

AIDS dementia and encephalitis are complications of AIDS occurring most frequently in patients who are immunosuppressed. The simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) model used in this study was designed...

Modulation of disease, T cell responses, and measles virus clearance in monkeys vaccinated with H-encoding alphavirus replicon particles

Pan, Chien-Hsiung, Valsamakis, Alexandra, Colella, Teresa, Nair, Nitya, Adams, Robert J., Polack, Fernando P., ...

Measles remains a major worldwide problem partly because of difficulties with vaccination of young infants. New vaccine strategies need to be safe and to provide sustained protective immunity. We...

The North West Adelaide Health Study: detailed methods and baseline segmentation of a cohort for selected chronic diseases

Grant, Janet F, Chittleborough, Catherine R, Taylor, Anne W, Dal Grande, Eleonora, Wilson, David H, Phillips, Patrick J, ...

The North West Adelaide Health Study is a population-based biomedical cohort study investigating the prevalence of a number of chronic conditions and health-related risk factors along a continuum....

High Viral Load in the Cerebrospinal Fluid and Brain Correlates with Severity of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Encephalitis

Zink, M. Christine, Suryanarayana, Kalachar, Mankowski, Joseph L., Shen, Anding, Piatak, Michael, Spelman, Jeffrey P., ...

AIDS dementia and encephalitis are complications of AIDS occurring most frequently in patients who are immunosuppressed. The simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) model used in this study was designed...

Modulation of disease, T cell responses, and measles virus clearance in monkeys vaccinated with H-encoding alphavirus replicon particles

Pan, Chien-Hsiung, Valsamakis, Alexandra, Colella, Teresa, Nair, Nitya, Adams, Robert J., Polack, Fernando P., ...

Measles remains a major worldwide problem partly because of difficulties with vaccination of young infants. New vaccine strategies need to be safe and to provide sustained protective immunity. We...

The North West Adelaide Health Study: detailed methods and baseline segmentation of a cohort for selected chronic diseases

Grant, Janet F, Chittleborough, Catherine R, Taylor, Anne W, Dal Grande, Eleonora, Wilson, David H, Phillips, Patrick J, ...

The North West Adelaide Health Study is a population-based biomedical cohort study investigating the prevalence of a number of chronic conditions and health-related risk factors along a continuum....

Pathogenesis of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Pneumonia : An Immunopathological Response to Virus

Mankowski, Joseph L., Carter, Darryl L., Spelman, Jeffrey P., Nealen, Michele L., Maughan, Kevin R., Kirstein, Lynn M., ...

Although many human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals develop lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia, the roles of host and viral factors in the pathogenesis of pneumonia are not well defined....

Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP): extended follow-up and final results

Lee, Margaret T., Piomelli, Sergio, Granger, Suzanne, Miller, Scott T., Harkness, Shannon, Brambilla, Donald J., ...

The Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP) was a randomized trial to evaluate whether chronic transfusion could prevent initial stroke in children with sickle-cell anemia at high risk...

Dose-Dependent Protection against or Exacerbation of Disease by a Polylactide Glycolide Microparticle-Adsorbed, Alphavirus-Based Measles Virus DNA Vaccine in Rhesus Macaques▿

Pan, Chien-Hsiung, Nair, Nitya, Adams, Robert J., Zink, M. Christine, Lee, Eun-Young, Polack, Fernando P., ...

Measles remains an important cause of vaccine-preventable child mortality. Development of a low-cost, heat-stable vaccine for infants under the age of 6 months could improve measles control by...

Natural Host Genetic Resistance to Lentiviral CNS Sisease: A Neuroprotective MHC Class I Allele in SIV-Infected Macaques

Mankowski, Joseph L., Queen, Suzanne E., Fernandez, Caroline S., Tarwater, Patrick M., Karper, Jami M., Adams, Robert J., ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection frequently causes neurologic disease even with anti-retroviral treatment. Although associations between MHC class I alleles and acquired immunodeficiency...

Use of Vaxfectin Adjuvant with DNA Vaccine Encoding the Measles Virus Hemagglutinin and Fusion Proteins Protects Juvenile and Infant Rhesus Macaques against Measles Virus▿

Pan, Chien-Hsiung, Jimenez, Gretchen S., Nair, Nitya, Wei, Qun, Adams, Robert J., Polack, Fernando P., ...

A measles virus vaccine for infants under 6 months of age would help control measles. DNA vaccines hold promise, but none has provided full protection from challenge. Codon-optimized plasmid DNAs...