4098 papers
This study developed an integrated modeling framework that links indoor prallethrin fumigation exposure to internal tissue dosimetry and early biological responses, demonstrating that typical use scenarios pose low health risks while significantly elevated exposures approach critical thresholds.
This study identifies the host genetic factor RHBDL2 as a critical determinant of cerebral infarction in pneumococcal meningitis, demonstrating that its risk allele drives endothelial dysfunction and vascular injury through a mechanism involving VE-cadherin loss.
This feasibility study demonstrates that CT-based 3D virtual motion simulations are effective for visualizing bony impingement and predicting limited abduction in patients with greater tuberosity fractures, suggesting their potential utility in guiding surgical decision-making.
This multicenter interrupted time-series study demonstrates that implementing a structured Rapid Symptom Response Pathway significantly reduces 30-day unplanned readmissions, emergency department visits, and length of stay for patients undergoing radical cystectomy by enabling proactive symptom monitoring and rapid clinical intervention.
A 2024 cross-sectional study at Hawassa University's Oncology Center in Ethiopia found that unmet supportive care needs among cancer patients are prevalent, particularly in health system and information domains, and are significantly associated with low income, co-existing illnesses, and longer time since diagnosis.
This retrospective analysis of 102 heterotopic pregnancy cases identifies preoperative fetal cardiac activity and a postoperative-to-preoperative HCG ratio of at least 1/3 as independent protective factors against intrauterine pregnancy loss, while highlighting the importance of minimizing uterine manipulation during surgical intervention.
This paper introduces the Reference-Deviation-Aware Multimodal Stacking (RD-MMS) framework, which leverages a large-scale real-world outpatient dataset to achieve robust, temporally stable bidirectional prediction of diabetes-hypertension comorbidity transitions despite low laboratory test coverage.
This baseline study in Ethiopia's West Arsi Zone reveals substantial and heterogeneous *Plasmodium vivax* transmission that is underestimated by molecular diagnostics alone, demonstrating that serological assays effectively identify a large reservoir of recent exposure and, combined with the rarity of G6PD deficiency, support the feasibility of targeted radical cure strategies for elimination.
This study quantifies a 27% intervention misalignment in care management for rising-risk Medicaid patients, primarily driven by the under-addressing of social needs, and demonstrates that the PEARL policy, which leverages within-patient natural experiments and fairness constraints, can reduce this misalignment to 2.0% while avoiding the severe performance degradation seen in fairness-agnostic variants.
This case report highlights the critical diagnostic pitfall of attributing pulmonary nodules and trace infectious biomarkers to tuberculosis or fungal infection in immunocompetent patients, as illustrated by a young male whose poorly differentiated sarcoma with brain metastases was only confirmed after failing anti-infective therapy and undergoing a brain biopsy.