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BACKGROUND: Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that causes significant morbidity and mortality, with an estimated 81,410-137,880 deaths annually, primarily in rural, low-resource settings. Digital health interventions, particularly mobile apps (mobile-based health apps), offer innovative solutions to…

IMPORTANCE: Efforts to understand the complex association between social media use and mental health have focused on depression, with little investigation of other forms of negative affect, such as irritability and anxiety. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the association between self-reported use of individual social media…

INTRODUCTION: The Emergency Department (ED) has seen increased patient attendance and difficulty meeting demands. New healthcare professions such as Physician Associates (PAs) are being utilised to complement the existing medical workforce. Despite the growth of their professions in the United Kingdom, little evid…

OBJECTIVES: In anticancer clinical trials, particularly open-label trials, central reviewers are recommended to evaluate progression-free survival (PFS) and objective response rate (ORR) to avoid detection bias of local investigators. However, it is not clear whether the bias has been adequately identified, or to what…

BACKGROUND: Growing evidence suggests an association between the infection from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and eye disorders. The aim of this review was to analyze the clinical presentation and diagnostic features of acute macular neuroretinopathy (AMN) and paracentral acute middle…

<p>BACKGROUND: Many patients with moderate plaque psoriasis are undertreated despite broadening treatment options. In the phase IV UNVEIL study, oral apremilast demonstrated efficacy and safety in systemic-naive patients with chronic moderate plaque psoriasis with lower psoriasis-involved body surface area (BSA; 5%-10%…

OBJECTIVE: The published data on the curative effects of comparing the once weekly paclitaxel-based chemotherapies (W-paclitaxel) with the standard every 3 weeks paclitaxel-based chemotherapies (S-paclitaxel) in the first-line treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were still controversial. To derive…

BACKGROUND: High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell support (HDT) has been proven effective in relapsed aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). However, conflicting results of HDT as part of first-line treatment have been reported in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). We undertook a systematic review and meta…

Our rationale was to investigate the potential of interim [F]FDG PET (iPET) in predicting large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) patients' outcomes, including the end-of-treatment response, progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS).A systematic search was conducted on the 3 main medical literature databases unti…

In 120 Stage I-IV testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients treated from 1964 to 2015, we assessed the benefits of prophylactic contralateral testicular radiation (RT) and prophylactic central nervous system (CNS) therapy on overall, progression free, testicular relapse free, and CNS relapse free surviv…

BACKGROUND: Unplanned out-of-hospital birth is often perceived as precipitate in nature, 'infrequent', 'normal' and 'uncomplicated'. However, international studies report unplanned out-of-hospital birth is associated with increased rates of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. This research describes intrapar…

Prostate cancer (PC) is a very important kind of male malignancies. When PC evolves into a stage of hormone resistance or metastasis, the fatality rate is very high. Currently, discoveries and advances in miRNAs as biomarkers have opened the potential for the diagnosis of PC, especially early diagnosis. miRNAs not only…

BACKGROUND: Because of concerns about the safety of long-acting &#x3b2;(2)-agonist (LABA) use in patients with asthma, withdrawal of the LABA is recommended by the US Food and Drug Administration once asthma is controlled by combination therapy with a LABA and inhaled corticosteroid (ICS). OBJECTIVE: To perform a syst…

Gastruloids are three-dimensional stem-cell-based models that recapitulate key aspects of mammalian gastrulation, including formation of an anterior-posterior (AP) axis. However, we do not have detailed spatial information about gene expression and cell type organization, particularly at the level of individual gastrul…

FTMap is a computational mapping server that identifies binding hot spots of macromolecules-i.e., regions of the surface with major contributions to the ligand-binding free energy. To use FTMap, users submit a protein, DNA or RNA structure in PDB (Protein Data Bank) format. FTMap samples billions of positions of small…

Hairy cell leukemia variant (HCLv), described 30 years ago, was reported to present with high disease burden and less often leukopenia, and later was reported to be resistant to purine analogs. Patients with HCLv were overrepresented among patients with HCL seeking relapsed/refractory trials. To compare clinical and mo…

With the introduction of the nucleoside analogs cladribine and pentostatin the treatment of patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) has been revolutionized, and the majority of patients achieve a long-lasting complete remission with rare patients ever needing the traditional treatment strategies such as splenectomy. Ho…

Clofarabine and cytarabine (Clo&#x2009;+&#x2009;Ara-C) combinations have efficacy in treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We retrospectively analyzed clinical outcomes of 71 AML patients receiving Clo&#x2009;+&#x2009;Ara-C regimens at the University of Minnesota from 2011 to 2016: 44 patients (62%) had newly diag…

BACKGROUND: Ankle sprain is a medical condition when ankle ligaments are totally or partially torn. The primary cause of ankle sprain is sharp movements like turning or rolling the foot [1]. The ankle sprain needs to be treated right after the trauma, because if not treated it could lead to decreased stability of the a…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The MY PD-CARE digital tool is intended to empower people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and care partners to actively identify and track changes in key symptoms of advancing PD and to facilitate discussions with healthcare professionals (HCPs). MY PD-CARE was adapted from MANAGE-PD, a validated, web…