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386). Bayesian MGSEM revealed that in the intervention group, 12 of 17 tested paths were significant (p less then .05), compared with only 4 in the control group, with average effect size magnitudes of 0.236 and 0.113, respectively. Media literacy education can empower parents and improve youths’ critical thinking to reduce negative effects of food marketing on families and improve use of media to obtain nutrition information that aids dietary choices. This approach reduces the risk for reactance from youth who like media and resist limiting media use, while helping families use media together to make better nutrition decisions.Sexual activity, including hooking up, increases college women’s vulnerability to sexual victimization. Reducing hookups may reduce rates of sexual victimization among this vulnerable population. Because college students overestimate how frequently their peers hook up, correcting their misperceptions may lead to more accurate perceived social norms, and consequently, less hookup behavior. The study was designed as a randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of a brief, computer-administered personalized normative feedback (PNF) intervention regarding hookups during the first semester of college. We tested an indirect effects model in which PNF was hypothesized to predict perceiving fewer peer hookups, which were expected to predict fewer actual hookups and consequently, less sexual victimization during the first semester of college. Entering first-year women (N = 760) were randomly assigned to receive web-delivered PNF or no information. At the end of the semester, perceived number of hookups of others, number of hookups during the semester, and sexual victimization experiences were assessed. Women who received the intervention perceived that their peers engaged in significantly fewer hookups than did control women. Consistent with the proposed indirect effects model, intervention had a significant indirect effect on the odds of first-semester victimization via lower perceived descriptive norms, which in turn predicted fewer hookups. The study provides proof of concept for the importance of hookups as a risk factor for sexual victimization and provides novel, preliminary support for intervention to change descriptive norms as a way of reducing hookups and consequently, sexual vulnerability.This commentary article is co-authored by an adult patient with X-linked retinoschisis and two ophthalmologists affiliated with the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. It describes the patient’s experiences of sight loss and the diagnosis and management of X-linked retinoschisis. The treating ophthalmologists then draw upon these experiences and discuss the disease and associated sight loss in a wider context.PURPOSE To clarify the association between cancer diagnosis and subsequent risk of being unemployed at 10 years after diagnosis among very long-term survivors. METHODS A historical cohort study using prospectively collected data was done which included baseline measurements from the Israeli national census. Only patients who were 50 years old or younger at the time of diagnosis were included in the current study. Binary logistic regression analyses were used to assess odds ratios for unemployment at 10 years following diagnosis, while controlling for socioeconomic measurements and employment status at 2 years prior to diagnosis. RESULTS The final study population included 2493 patients who were diagnosed with cancer and 7360 persons without a history of cancer, after excluding individuals who died before the end of 2015. After controlling for confounders, positive associations were found between cancer and increased risk for unemployment at 10 years (OR = 1.31, 95% CI 1.17-1.47). Analysis by cancer type revealed that patients who were diagnosed with CNS malignancies (OR = 2.71, 95% CI 1.80-4.07), followed by patients who were diagnosed with lymphoma (OR = 1.66, 95% CI 1.16-1.28) showed the greatest magnitude of effect, while the association between unemployment at 10 years following diagnosis and breast cancer was found to weaken and actually lose significance (adjusted OR = 1.22, 95% CI 0.99-1.50). CONCLUSIONS Cancer survivors have an increased risk for long-term unemployment among very long-term survivors, mainly among patients diagnosed with CNS malignancies and lymphoma. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS The current study emphasizes the need for tailored intervention in order to mitigate the long-term risk of unemployment.Figures 1a, 1b and 3 were published incorrectly in the original version. The corrected images are given as follows.The evolutionary highly conserved Notch pathway governs many cellular core processes including cell fate decisions. Although it is characterized by a simple molecular design, Notch signaling, which first developed in metazoans, represents one of the most important pathways that govern embryonic development. HG6-64-1 ic50 Consequently, a broad variety of independent inherited diseases linked to defective Notch signaling has now been identified, including Alagille, Adams-Oliver, and Hajdu-Cheney syndromes, CADASIL (cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy), early-onset arteriopathy with cavitating leukodystrophy, lateral meningocele syndrome, and infantile myofibromatosis. In this review, we give a brief overview on molecular pathology and clinical findings in congenital diseases linked to the Notch pathway. Moreover, we discuss future developments in basic science and clinical practice that may emerge from recent progress in our understanding of the role of Notch in health and disease.Notch signalling is a major regulator of cell fate decisions and tissue patterning in metazoans. It is best known for its role in lateral inhibition, whereby Notch mediates competitive interactions between cells to limit adoption of a given developmental fate. However, it can also function by lateral induction, a cooperative mode of action that was originally described during the patterning of the Drosophila wing disc and creates boundaries or domains of cells of the same character. In this chapter, we introduce these two signalling modes and explain how they contribute to distinct aspects of the development and regeneration of the vertebrate inner ear, the organ responsible for the perception of sound and head movements. We discuss some of the factors that could influence the context-specific outcomes of Notch signalling in the inner ear and the ongoing efforts to target this pathway for the treatment of hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction.