4814 papers
This randomized placebo-controlled trial demonstrates that a 12-week course of psyllium fiber significantly improves abdominal pain and quality of life in children with functional abdominal pain disorders (including IBS and FAP-NOS), with the majority of responders experiencing sustained relief after discontinuation.
This study employs a multi-method approach to reveal that China's Volume-Based Procurement policy has exerted heterogeneous effects on the gastrointestinal and metabolic medication market, characterized by a drastic 82% decline in insulin sales versus a 50% growth in oral antidiabetics, with national policies and hospital channels demonstrating significantly stronger impacts than regional alliances and retail pharmacies.
A retrospective analysis of fellowship case logs reveals significant disparities in minimally invasive surgical exposure across HPB, CGSO, and transplant training pathways, with HPB fellows demonstrating superior robotic experience and highlighting an urgent need for standardized curricula to ensure technical proficiency across all HPB surgery pipelines.
This study presents a machine learning framework that utilizes a weighted ensemble of deep learning models to accurately classify athlete heartbeats from ECG data, achieving high performance in distinguishing normal, supraventricular, and ventricular ectopic beats to support scalable cardiac screening.
This study demonstrates that chronic cannabidiol treatment reverses neuroimmune priming and restores microglial function in aged Gulf War Illness mice by attenuating baseline inflammation and rescuing LPS-induced deficits in antigen presentation and oxidative phosphorylation.
This case report describes a term pregnant woman who presented with an acute ischemic stroke caused by a missed Stanford type A aortic dissection, highlighting the diagnostic challenges of atypical presentations in pregnancy and the critical role of bedside echocardiography in enabling a successful multidisciplinary intervention with favorable outcomes for both mother and child.
In a multicentre randomised clinical trial involving adults undergoing isolated on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass did not demonstrate superiority over mild hypothermic bypass in reducing postoperative bleeding or other clinical outcomes, although the study was underpowered.
This study demonstrates that exogenous antagonism of the prolactin receptor in the nucleus tractus solitarius attenuates post-thyroidectomy retching-like behavior by inhibiting the activation of dopaminergic neurons, thereby identifying a novel neuroendocrine pathway and therapeutic target for postoperative nausea and vomiting.
A national survey of South African nurse educators reveals a significant gap between the recognized importance of African traditional health knowledge and practices and their minimal, inconsistent, and largely theoretical integration into undergraduate nursing curricula, highlighting an urgent need for structured educational reform to better prepare nurses for pluralistic healthcare systems.
This study utilizes Importance–Performance Analysis on 201 South Korean social service personnel to reveal that mental health service priorities and unmet needs vary significantly by depression severity, advocating for a shift from uniform support to a coordinated, severity-responsive framework with strengthened referral pathways.