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OBJECTIVE: This descriptive phenomenological study explored patients' experiences of living with a leg ulcer. METHOD: Eight participants (five female and three male) were recruited from a secondary care leg ulcer clinic in a large UK teaching hospital. All had current venous leg ulceration, lasting between five months…

A double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III cancer prevention trial in subjects with previous resection of adenomatous colon polyps is nearing completion. The study's primary objective is to evaluate the effects of daily dietary supplementation with large (13.5 g/day) versus small (2.0 g/day) doses of wheat bran fiber…

BACKGROUND: Children often resist instillation of mydriatic drops for dilated fundus evaluation. As cycloplegic sprays have proven useful, this study's aim was to demonstrate efficacy of a mydriatic spray. METHODS: Twenty-two healthy subjects, ages 2 to 8 years, participated in the study. All but two had dark brown ir…

Nonadherence by trial participants to the study drug regimen threatens the satisfactory conduct of the best designed clinical trial. Reduced adherence confounds the interpretation of the study's results and may leave the study's primary question unanswered. Recent reports from multicenter clinical trials have reported…

AIM: This study aimed to evaluate the functionality and quality of breast cancer apps that can be accessed from Turkey. METHODS: In this study, a systematic search strategy was used to identify free mobile apps on breast cancer available in the App and Google Play stores. According to the study's PRISMA flowchart, 707…

The impact of bullying in all forms on the mental health and safety of adolescents is of particular interest, especially in the wake of new methods of bullying that victimize youths through technology. The current study examined the relationship between victimization from both physical and cyber bullying and adolescent…

CONTEXT: Colon neoplasias are presently the third most common cancer type. Its treatment is still associated with high risk of complications, thus emphasizing the need to design new treatment strategies. The ingestion of probiotics and prebiotics, or the combination of both (symbiotics), represents a new therapeutic ch…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is presently reshaping higher education in a rapid way, due to the high engagement of students with AI. The study's aim was to explore strategies driving transformation in higher education at large and particularly dental education. This article is a narrative review adopting a structured a…

BACKGROUND: According to the World Health Organization, dengue is among the top ten global health threats. The invasion of new sites byand their permanence depends on environmental characteristics of the site. Therefore, the objective was to understand the environmental characteristics that affectdistribution in C&#xf3…

BACKGROUND: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is highly effective in people living with HIV (PLHIV), but its success depends on treatment satisfaction and adherence. A determinant of satisfaction regards how the medication is delivered to the patient, namely how it is contained (e.g., bottles, blisters, etc). A new packagin…

INTRODUCTION: Femoral neck fracture jeopardizes the vital prognosis of the elderly subject and the functional prognosis of the young subject. The vascular consequence is important, with the risk of osteonecrosis of the femoral head. In young patients, predicting the risk of necrosis at the acute stage seems warranted s…

The values of occupational therapy are grounded in justice, and its origins in activism and advocacy. Enabling individuals to participate in meaningful occupations to enhance health and well-being was the genesis of the profession that answered a call to justice. Occupational science brought focus to understand humans…

Water pollutants constitute a significant environmental concern today. Organophosphorus compounds, notably parathion, represent a critical category of water pollutants. Their extensive usage poses substantial risks to human health and the environment, necessitating their removal from water sources. This study focuses o…

While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions to address climate change impacts, it also raises many application limitations and challenges. A risk governance perspective is used to analyze the role of AI in supporting decision-making for climate adaptation, spanning risk assessment, policy analysis, an…

This paper investigates the centrality ofin mental health conception and treatment in Malawi.is an African philosophical worldview which stresses that an individual is human as they relate to others, as in the sayingIts communitarian approach contrasts with a predominantly western individualistic worldview;There are sp…

A pilot study on the feasibility of using high carbon wood ash to control composting odor emissions was conducted at a green material composting facility. The study's treatments consisted of adding 0%, 12.5%, and 25% high carbon wood ash by volume to green-material compost feedstock in three separate windrows. The wood…

Renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) harboring the t(6;11)(p21;q12) translocation were first described in 2001 and recently recognized by the 2013 International Society of Urological Pathology Vancouver Classification of Renal Neoplasia. Although these RCCs are known to label for melanocytic markers HMB45 and Melan A and the c…

Surgical intervention is an important option for treating lumbar tuberculosis. Previous studies have reported different surgical intervention procedures. To our knowledge, few studies have compared the clinical results of mid-term follow-up of 3 different surgeries in surgical treatment of spinal tuberculosis. This stu…

Pediatric appropriate use criteria (AUC) were recently published for initial outpatient transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of AUC publication on TTE ordering patterns of pediatric cardiologists. Data were prospectively collected on patients who had initial outpat…

PURPOSE: To identify and assess diagnosis, procedure and pharmacy dispensing codes used to identify stillbirths and spontaneous abortion in administrative and claims databases from the United States or Canada. METHODS: We searched the MEDLINE database from 1991 to September 2012 using controlled vocabulary and key ter…