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BACKGROUND AIMS: Studies examining crowdfunding campaigns for stem cell interventions have typically focused on campaigns seeking funds to send individuals to businesses marketing unlicensed and unproven stem cell products. However, some crowdfunding campaigns identify academic medical centers as destinations for indiv…

The Korean Atomic Bomb Survivor Cohort (K-ABC) study was designed to investigate the health impacts of atomic bomb exposure on Korean survivors and to explore whether these effects are passed down genetically to their descendants. This paper outlines the study's design, data collection methods, baseline socio-demograph…

BACKGROUND: The influence of femoroacetabular (FA) impingement has been implied in early hip osteoarthritis, particularly in young patients who enjoy athletics. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to assess the effectiveness and safety of hip arthroscopy compared to open surgical dislocation for the treatment of femor…

Female physicians have a higher prevalence of infertility compared with the general population. Physician well-being can be significantly impacted by the physical and emotional challenges associated with this, including the high cost of fertility treatments, which are often not covered by health insurance. There are li…

Partial weight bearing is commonly advised after fracture of the lower extremity. Research has determined this to be inaccurate both in its instruction and its reproducibility. Many trauma departments are commonly using alternatives to plaster in the splintage of fractures, such as fiberglass and the prefabricated pneu…

The Consortium Study is a prospective, randomized research project designed to extend the medical community's understanding of the incidence of thromboembolic disease following hip replacement surgery. The study's methodology of assessing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) is by clinical symptomatol…

The study's goals were 1) to confirm the previously observed increase in postprandial glucose levels immediately after exercise in people with type 2 diabetes who are being treated with metformin; 2) to determine how long the increased glucose persists; 3) to examine the effect of skipping a dose of metformin before or…

The study aimed to evaluate the formats and completeness of the current paper-based referral system and assess user needs for designing an electronic referral system. Conducted in eight public health facilities in Kigali city, the mixed methods approach identified seven different referral letter formats, with the exter…

This study investigates the effectiveness of visual feedback in reducing trunk compensation during one-arm reaching exercises using an end-effector robot. Results suggest that visual feedback is more effective than verbal feedback in suppressing trunk compensation, as evidenced by lower trunk movements. Synchronized ta…

This phenomenological study was conducted in rural Rajasthan, India, to explore young widows' lived experiences. On receipt of written informed consent, we interviewed 14 young widows. The data were analyzed in an idiographic style using the interpretive phenomenological approach. The perspective of loss and sociocultu…

This study examines how optimistic bias moderates the association of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising (DTCA) exposure with consumers' responses to DTCA. We propose and test a model that addresses how exposure to DTCA plays a role in health risk assessment and prescription drug decision engagement. Findi…

Previous considerations of Freud's 1910 pathography of Leonardo da Vinci have grappled mainly with errors of fact (among them a mistranslation in the study's signature childhood memory, widely known since the 1950s). Here a more consequential flaw is examined: Freud's fatefully pathogenic framing of Leonardo's homosexu…

OBJECTIVE: To critically analyse the concept of nursing prescription through the study of its background and a review of the scientific literature, in order to develop an accurate conception of this nursing activity and to identify the essential elements surrounding this concept. METHOD: Application of the concept ana…

This article reports findings from an ethnographic study that explored the meaning of therapeutic in the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment (AODT) Court in New Zealand. Descriptions are provided of the therapeutic framework called ngā whenu raranga/weaving strands that resulted from interviews with court team membe…

In the March 2014 issue of American Journal of Community Psychology, we published an article that examined the tension between two core values in the field of community psychology: promoting contextual conditions that foster respect for diversity and promoting contextual conditions that foster sense of community. We co…

The recent Large Observational Study to Understand the Global Impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Failure (LUNG SAFE) challenges current data on the prevalence of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The LUNG SAFE investigators claimed that their data demonstrated the predictive validity of the Berlin criteria. A…

The aim of this study is to use the Azjen & Madden Theory of Planned Behavior to identify the factors influencing the intention or non-intention of community nurses to report adverse incidents. A convenience sample of community nurses completed a questionnaire. The findings fully or partially confirmed the study's thre…

Injection drug users (IDUs) entering an urban low-threshold opiate detoxification unit in Munich, Germany, between 1991 and 1997 were asked for lifetime suicide attempts and administered a questionnaire, including sociodemographic, IDU-related, and drug user treatment related variables. Among 1,049 participants, 20% ha…

The Health Protection Agency has recently attempted to create a postmortem tissue archive to determine the prevalence of abnormal prion protein. The success of this archive was prevented because the Health Protection Agency could not convince coroners to support the study's methodology and participate on that basis. Th…