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INTRODUCTION: Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by nonscarring hair loss that may impact quality of life (QoL). After 2021, new therapies were approved to treat severe AA in Taiwan; however, there is no global definition of severe AA. Dermatologists may use other criteria in addition to scalp…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Functional motor disorder (FMD), a motor-dominant variant of functional neurologic disorder, is a disabling condition associated with high health and social care resource use and poor employment outcomes. Specialist physiotherapy presents a possible treatment option, but there is limited evid…

UNLABELLED: In July 2010, the Medical Advisory Secretariat (MAS) began work on a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) evidentiary framework, an evidence-based review of the literature surrounding treatment strategies for patients with COPD. This project emerged from a request by the Health System Strategy Divis…

BACKGROUND: Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor maintenance therapy is a standard treatment in selected ovarian cancer patients. However, hematological toxicity remains a clinical problem. The study aimed to identify predictors of early hematologic toxicity during PARP inhibitor maintenance therapy in high-gra…

PURPOSE: To compare short-term (12 weeks) and long-term (48 weeks) anatomical and functional outcomes after switching to brolucizumab (BRZ) or faricimab (FAR) under a treat-and-extend (TAE) regimen without an initial loading phase in eyes with poor-responsive neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). METHOD…

Expanding the US Food and Drug Administration-approved indications for immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with cancer has resulted in therapeutic success and immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Neurologic irAEs (irAE-Ns) have an incidence of 1%-12% and a high fatality rate relative to other irAEs. Lack…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a rare debilitating autoimmune disease of the CNS. Three monoclonal antibodies were recently approved as maintenance therapies for aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin G (AQP4-IgG)-seropositive NMOSD (eculizumab, inebilizumab, and satralizumab), prompti…

The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign seeks to establish whether life on Mars existed where and when environmental conditions allowed. Laboratory measurements on the returned samples are useful if what is measured is evidence of phenomena on Mars rather than of the effects of sterilization conditions. This rep…

BACKGROUNDS AND OBJECTIVES: Managing multiple sclerosis (MS) during pregnancy and postpartum is a therapeutic challenge. We aim to describe therapy regimens, clinical and MRI disease activity, and serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) levels in all pregnancies observed between 2012 and 2023 among participants of the S…

Introduction Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death in trauma in both the military and civilian settings worldwide. Medical studies from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) informed change in military prehospital medicine by influencing widespread tourniquet distribution and…

Iran has one of the highest death rates from COVID-19 among Middle Eastern countries. In addition to having a better disease registration system compared to neighboring countries, many factors including economic conditions, have played an important role in increasing the number of mortality rate. This is while that dur…