A 48-year-old Hispanic female patient presented to the Emergency Department (ED) for hematemesis for the past 2 days associated with generalized weakness, abdominal pain, nausea, and subjective fevers. The patient’s initial vital signs were…
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Towards a better understanding of brief lifestyle interventions in noncommunicable diseases: a concept analysis | BMC Public Health
Study selection
The initial search yielded 23,124 articles, of which 23,112 were identified from the bibliographic databases and 12 were identified in Google Scholar and citation searching. After the three-step screening process, we finally…
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The prevalence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and study of co-infection with COVID-19 from a laboratory perspective, before and after the relaxation of COVID-19 control measures | BMC Infectious Diseases
General overview of MP infections in 2023
In 2023, there were a total of 37,017 MP-related tests conducted, with an overall positive rate of 2.03%. Of those testing positive, 415 were male (55.26%) and 336 were female (44.74%). As illustrated in…
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Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Health Literacy among Medical Students: A Systematic Review | BMC Medical Education
Sørensen K, Van den Broucke S, Fullam J, Doyle G, Pelikan J, Slonska Z, et al. Health literacy and public health: a systematic review and integration of definitions and models. BMC Public Health. 2012;12:1–13.
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No amount of alcohol is safe, at least for dementia risk – The Washington Post
- No amount of alcohol is safe, at least for dementia risk The Washington Post
- Moderate drinking dementia risk. Genetic proof Holistic News
- The four ages when alcohol really harms your health (and the decade we’re best at handling it) The…
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Is volatile sedation truly associated with increased mortality in mechanically ventilated critically ill adults compared to intravenous sedation? Moving beyond pairwise meta-analysis to individual agent assessment via bayesian network meta-analysis | Critical Care
Yamamoto T, Kotani Y, Akutagawa K, Nagayama T, Tomimatsu M, Tonai M, Karumai T, Hayashi Y. Volatile sedation in critically ill adults undergoing mechanical ventilation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Crit Care. 2025;29(1):227.
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Brief preoperative frailty predicts postoperative adverse outcomes in older patients with radical esophageal cancer surgery | BMC Geriatrics
Study population
We retrospectively analyzed the case data of 699 patients (aged ≥ 65 years) who underwent radical surgery for esophageal cancer from January 1, 2014 to January 31, 2017 in the perioperative database of geriatric thoracic…
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La Roche-Posay reveals mental toll of eczema and scars
La Roche-Posay has found that scarring and eczema take a “profound” psychological toll on people. Respondents to the Scars of Life Epidemiological Study reported diminished self-esteem, social stigmatization, and limited personal and social…
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Association of metabolic score for insulin resistance and preeclampsia: a multicenter cohort study | Lipids in Health and Disease
Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia: ACOG practice bulletin summary, number 222 published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Obstet Gynecol. 2020;135:1492-95.
Li Q, Zhao C, Liu M, Li M, Zhang Y, Yue C. Association…
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Preclinical Study: Gene Therapy Protects Kidneys in Type 1
One in three people with type one diabetes will develop kidney damage during their lifetime, which can develop silently over many years, often going undetected until it becomes severe.
Current treatments can slow kidney damage but there are…
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