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BACKGROUND: Gastric diseases caused, in particular, by, non-typhoidal, andresulting from food and/or water problems, are a disproportionately distributed burden in developing countries in Central Africa. The aim of this work was to compile a list of studies establishing the prevalence of the involvement of these bacter…

BACKGROUND: The causes of persistent submacular detachment after successful rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) surgery remain unknown. Its presence is associated with poor postoperative visual acuity, but due to its spontaneous resolution no additional therapeutic or diagnostic procedure is recommended. CASE REPO…

Plastic surgery on the breast is among the most common aesthetic and reconstructive procedures performed today, with a variety of surgical approaches available. Emerging evidence suggests that these procedures may negatively affect breastfeeding. This meta-analysis aimed to assess the effects of breast augmentation, re…

INTRODUCTION: Acute unilateral vestibular hypofunction is characterized by sudden onset of vertigo or dizziness, vomiting/nausea, gait instability, and nystagmus. This is commonly described as an acute vestibular syndrome and usually attributed to vestibular neuritis; however, up to 25% of acute vestibular syndrome is…

PubMed and Google Scholar were searched to obtain articles originating from Mpilo Central Hospital, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe--1958 to August 2011 (54 years). 168 articles cited 999 times were retrieved giving about 6 citations per article. Analysis of publication trends over time as well as publication avenues is made. The f…

Medical Archives is the oldest biomedical journal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and all important individuals of medical clinical practice have been published in the Medical Archives, and even today, in index and citation databases: Medline, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, open access variants, is the main advertiser of m…

AIM: To synthesise evidence from existing systematic reviews on the clinical effectiveness of SDF for the prevention and arrest of dental caries in primary teeth. METHODS: This umbrella review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Systematic reviews (SRs), with or without meta-analyses, involving pa…

OBJECTIVE: Although apathy is commonly reported among patients with Huntington's disease (HD), this psychiatric symptom has not yet been clearly defined or extensively studied in HD. Most researchers have adopted descriptive approaches, showing that apathy is a multidimensional entity but leaving the processes underlyi…

INTRODUCTION: Ethiopia was one of the pioneer countries to implement the World Health Organization's Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system to accelerate the reduction in maternal and perinatal mortality. However, there has been no systematic evaluation of its implementation in Ethiopia a…

Child abuse, a reprehensible act, pervades all strata of society. Dentists are more likely to encounter such cases in their daily practice. However, such cases usually go unreported due to lack of adequate knowledge. Practitioners flinch from reporting these due to various reasons, and this sets up a vicious cycle whic…

Clonidine, an alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonist, has well-established role in acute perioperative pain management. However, recently it has found increasing use in chronic pain conditions as well. In this review, we systematically searched and analyzed the clinical studies from "PubMed," "PubMed central" and "Scopus"…

Most biomedical librarians are frequent users of the major online services provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. These services include MEDLINE/PubMed, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed Central, document delivery, and other key biomedi…

The use of water for various treatments (hydrotherapy) is probably as old as mankind. Hydrotherapy is one of the basic methods of treatment widely used in the system of natural medicine, which is also called as water therapy, aquatic therapy, pool therapy, and balneotherapy. Use of water in various forms and in various…

This literature review was conducted using PubMed-Medline, PubMed-Central and ERIC databases, 1979- 2010, for research studies and pertinent theoretical publications including journals and texts. Key search words included general terms such as: "medical education," "information and communication technology in medical e…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate various noninvasive and minimally invasive procedures for the enhancement of orthodontic tooth movement in animals. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Literature was searched using NCBI (PubMed, PubMed Central, and PubMed Health), MedPilot (Medline, Catalogue ZB MED, Catalogue Medicine Health, and Excerpta…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the reliability of landmark identification in posteroanterior cephalometrics. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A literature search was conducted to identify all articles concerning landmark identification error in the frontal radiograph. Electronic databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Database, Pub…

INTRODUCTION:  While research productivity surrounding the Step 1 scoring transition has been assessed, the specific impact on verified PubMed-indexed publications (PMIDs) has not been assessed. No study has quantified what proportion of self-reported research items reported in National Resident Match Program (NRM…

The NLM DTDs were descendants of the pmc-1.dtd, which was written to support the PubMed Central project. The NLM DTDs have become NISO Z39.96 JATS: The Journal Article Tag Suite.

BACKGROUND: Excessive sugar consumption has paralleled the global rise in obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and related metabolic disorders. High-sugar diets directly contribute to weight gain, insulin resistance, and chronic hyperglycemia, which drive cardiovascular complications and systemic inflammation thro…