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INTRODUCTION: Dental tourism means travelling abroad for economical dental treatment as the cost of treatment is high in one's own country. This trend has been emerged due to high priced health care and long waiting lists in many Western countries. In spite of large debates on dental care, tourism has taken place; stil…

We recently designed and deployed a metasearch engine, Metta, that sends queries and retrieves search results from five leading biomedical databases: PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Because many articles are indexed in more than one of these databases, it is desi…

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a rare manifestation of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and stroke. The aim of our systematic review was to provide an updated summary of the strength of association between CVT and thrombophilia and to explore the relevance of thrombophilia for recurrence of CVT or other VTE, or other…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the studies about the relationship of alcohol dependence and alcohol consumption with periodontitis. DATA AND SOURCES: A comprehensive search was performed in the Systematic Eletronic (PUBMED Medline, Latin American and Caribean Health Science-LILACS, Scien…

Physical exercise (PE) is a regular component in various disorders management, such as ankylosing spondilitis (AS). AS is a chronic and systematic rheumatic disorder without an effective treatment to restore the health. PE plays an important role on the prevention and management of the deformities related to AS. This r…

BACKGROUND: In an attempt to identify motivating factors involved in decisions to publish in open access and open archives (OA) journals, individual interviews with biomedical faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Duke University, two major research universities, were…

: Cardiac telemetry monitoring represents an important aspect of in-hospital patient safety in both telemetry and critical care settings. Despite technological advancements, telemetry effectiveness may be diminished due to systemic failures including operational processes, instructional policies, and human factors. Ala…

This systematic review offers the first comprehensive synthesis of factors associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) among sexual minority women (SMW), encompassing victimization, perpetration, and bidirectional violence. Following PRISMA guidelines, five databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, EMBASE, and Psy…

INTRODUCTION: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a complex multi-organ syndrome representative of many chronic 'diseases,' and as such it has proven resistant to traditional cell-based drug discovery cannot readily be captured the relevant systemic biology. In vivo drug discovery screens offer unique opportunities to id…

BackgroundTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is extensively studied as a neuromodulation tool in neurological disorders. However, its use with the central vestibular disorders is limited.ObjectiveTo evaluate the utility of TMS as an assessment and treatment of chronic vestibular disorders and propose recommendatio…

INTRODUCTION: Cognitive reserve (CR) is a crucial factor in explaining individual differences in the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitive decline. CR refers to the brain's ability to cope with pathology through compensatory mechanisms. This review examines the various methods used to measure, predict, and inf…

This review was performed to evaluate the effects of robot interventions on cognitive and psychological outcomes among older adults with cognitive impairment. Three databases (PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) were searched for studies published in English between January 2015 and Augu…

Although psychoactive drugs have their therapeutic values, they have been implicated in the pathogenesis of male infertility. This study highlights psychoactive drugs reported to impair male fertility, their impacts, and associated mechanisms. Published data from scholarly peer-reviewed journals were used for the prese…

OBJECTIVE: This review was conducted to assess the effectiveness of xylitol against Porphyromonas gingivalis anaerobic species, a key microbe contributing to periodontal disease pathogenesis. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Relevant studies published on seven online databases (Cochrane, Ovid, Pubmed, Pubmed Central, Scopus, Goo…

OBJECTIVES: Surgery of the thyroid takes place in a body part with complicated anatomy and several vital physiologic functions. Thyroidectomy is rarely associated with mortality but can be followed by significant complications, (i.e. hypoparathyroidism, hemorrhage, upper airway obstruction, laryngeal nerve injurie…

With the recent legalization of marijuana in several countries for recreational use, a controversial belief is spreading about it being "safe". In this systematic review, we decided to investigate this belief and present the adverse effects of marijuana and tobacco smoking on the cardiovascular system. We carried out a…

Antibiotics do not differentiate between good and bad germs, disrupting normal microflora and causing vitamin deficiency in the human body. They also kill healthy bacteria in the gut and genital tract on a large scale, weakening the host's defense mechanism. Probiotics are a colony of bacteria that live in our intestin…

Acta Informatica Medica journal (www.actainformmed.org), as Biomedical Informatics journal, during past 30 years of existing played important role in distribution of knowledge and experience within this scientific field, by publishing contributions of the biomedical experts from worlwide and spreading of Biomedical inf…

Protein citrullination is one of the processes of post-translational modification of proteins and peptides, playing a crucial role in the homeostasis of important processes, however also leading to pathological processes in autoimmune and neoplastic disorders. Citrullination regulates epidermal function, reproduction b…

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) before the age of 18 years are pervasive and noteworthy public health concerns. The ACEs are associated with sleep disorders in later life. In this study, we conduct a systematic review to explore the effects of ACEs on sleep in adulthood. Using Medical Subject Headings keywords, we…