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																		 North America
 
																		 
																		
																	 
																		 
																		
																	 
																			
																					
	"North America" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				The northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending northward from the Colombia-Panama border and including CENTRAL AMERICA, MEXICO, Caribbean area, the UNITED STATES, CANADA and GREENLAND. The term often refers more narrowly to MEXICO, continental UNITED STATES, AND CANADA.
    
			 
				
				
					
						| Descriptor ID | D009656 |  
						| MeSH Number(s) | Z01.107.567 |  
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				This graph shows the total number of publications written about "North America" by people in this website by year, and whether "North America" was a major or minor topic of these publications.  
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		            | Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total | 
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 | 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |  | 1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 |  | 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |  | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |  | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |  | 2002 | 0 | 6 | 6 |  | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |  | 2004 | 0 | 3 | 3 |  | 2005 | 0 | 4 | 4 |  | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |  | 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |  | 2008 | 0 | 4 | 4 |  | 2009 | 0 | 8 | 8 |  | 2010 | 0 | 11 | 11 |  | 2011 | 0 | 10 | 10 |  | 2012 | 0 | 4 | 4 |  | 2013 | 0 | 9 | 9 |  | 2014 | 0 | 11 | 11 |  | 2015 | 0 | 13 | 13 |  | 2016 | 0 | 14 | 14 |  | 2017 | 0 | 17 | 17 |  | 2018 | 0 | 14 | 14 |  | 2019 | 0 | 14 | 14 |  | 2020 | 0 | 20 | 20 |  | 2021 | 0 | 25 | 25 |  | 2022 | 0 | 24 | 24 |  | 2023 | 0 | 14 | 14 |  | 2024 | 0 | 19 | 19 |  | 2025 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 
 
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				Below are the most recent publications written about "North America" by people in Profiles. 		
					
								
								Kennett JP, LeCompte MA, Moore CR, Kletetschka G, Johnson JR, Wolbach WS, Mitra S, Maiorana-Boutilier A, Adedeji V, Young MD, Witwer T, Langworthy K, Razink JJ, Brogden V, van Devener B, Perez JP, Polson R, West A. Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex. PLoS One. 2025; 20(9):e0319840.
								Chen JH, Puttu U, Huynh HN, Ahern AT, Ball K, Bates KH, Brock CA, Campos T, Coggon MM, Crounse JD, de Gouw J, DiGangi JP, Diskin GS, Gkatzelis GI, Halliday HS, Hu L, Koss AR, Li Y, Lyu M, Michailoudi G, Murphy SM, Nowak JB, Palm BB, Peischl J, Permar W, Perring AE, Pokhrel RP, Schafer NB, Schwarz JP, Sekimoto K, Selimovic V, Stockwell CE, Sullivan AP, Thornton JA, Wagner NL, Wang S, Warneke C, Wennberg PO, Zeng L, Yokelson RJ, Weber RJ, Xu L. Atmospheric Evolution of Brown Carbon from Wildfires in North America. Environ Sci Technol. 2025 Aug 19; 59(32):17145-17159.
								King EA, Hernandez-Alejandro R, Emamaullee J, Al-Adra D, Byrne MM, Selzner N, Anderson B, Pomfret EA, Olthoff KM. Over 30 Years of Living Liver Donation in North America: Mortality Associated With Donation. Ann Surg. 2025 Oct 01; 282(4):650-657.
								Nishihara Y, Zaniletti I, Zenge J, Weikel B, Parker S, Murthy K, Padula MA, Grover T. Epidemiology of bacterial and fungal infections among level IV neonatal units in North America. J Perinatol. 2025 Jul; 45(7):997-1004.
								Herzel B, Batavia N, Gavaza P, Phan T, Samones E, Ruha AM, Furmaga J, Hoyte C, Wolk BJ. The Cost of Antivenom: A Cost Minimization Study using the North American Snakebite Registry. J Med Toxicol. 2025 Jul; 21(3):320-326.
								Ruha AM, Spyres MB, Culbreth R, Wolk B, Hoyte C, Campleman S. Systemic toxicity after rattlesnake envenomation in patients using angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors: A North American Snakebite Registry study. Toxicon. 2025 Apr; 258:108292.
								Davis RJ, Akst LM, Allen CT, Battafarano RJ, Born HL, Bryson PC, Clary MS, Crosby T, Dhillon VK, Dion G, Kavookjian H, Leahy KP, Lina I, Mirza N, Morrison RJ, Motz KM, Nelson RC, Preciado D, Sandu K, Spiegel JR, Walsh J, Hillel AT, Gelbard A. Third Proceedings of The North American Airway Collaborative (NoAAC): Consensus Statement on Trial Design for Airway Stenosis. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025 Mar 01; 151(3):263-267.
								Yeager R, Heasley LR, Baker N, Shrivastava V, Woodman J, McMurray MA. Wild yeast isolation by middle-school students reveals features of populations residing on North American oaks. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Jan 08; 15(1).
								Bradley H, Luisi N, Carter A, Pigott TD, Abramovitz D, Allen ST, Asher A, Austin C, Bartholomew TS, Baum M, Board A, Boodram B, Borquez A, Brookmeyer KA, Buchacz K, Burnett J, Cooper HLF, Crepaz N, Debeck K, Feinberg J, Fong C, Freeman E, Furukawa NW, Genberg B, Gorbach P, Hagan H, Hayashi K, Huriaux E, Hurley H, Keruly J, Kristensen K, Lai S, Martin NK, Mateu-Gelabert P, Mcclain GM, Mehta S, Mok WY, Reynoso M, Strathdee S, Torigian N, Weng CA, Westergaard R, Young A, Des Jarlais DC. Assessing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic impacts on the health of people who inject drugs using a novel data sharing model. AIDS. 2025 Mar 15; 39(4):434-447.
								Dib N, Poirier N, Samuel M, Hermann Honfo S, Zaidi A, Opotowsky AR, Mongeon FP, Mond?sert B, Kay J, Ibrahim R, Hamilton RM, Fournier A, Jameson SM, Dore A, Cook S, Cohen S, Chaix MA, Broberg CS, Aboulhosn J, Khairy P. Cardiovascular Outcomes Associated With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Versus Other Types of Single Right Ventricle: A Multicenter Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Dec 03; 13(23):e034757. | 
																	
																		
																			
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