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Ding JJ, Chiu CF, Su YT et al. · 2025 · Pediatric research
Background Maternal hypercalcemia is a rare but potentially serious cause of late-onset neonatal hypocalcemia. Data on the clinical characteristics and outcomes of mother-baby couplets with maternal hypercalcemia and subsequent neonatal…
View details →Džafić F, Ahmetović A, Čoloman N et al. · 2026 · International archives of allergy and immunology
Introduction Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a prevalent health concern. In Europe, 20-40% of the population is affected. Diagnostic methods include skin tests, measurement of serum immunoglobulin E (IgE), nasal smear for eosinophils, and…
View details →Kohan R, Gil-Campesino H, García Rodríguez IO et al. · 2026 · Emerging infectious diseases
We report 2 cases of donor-derived Strongyloides stercoralis infection in renal transplant recipients. Despite initial negative serologic testing in donor samples, retrospective testing confirmed transmission. This report underscores the…
View details →Bae-Jump VL, Sill MW, Gehrig PA et al. · 2025 · Gynecologic oncology
Introduction We evaluated the efficacy of the addition of the anti-diabetic drug metformin to standard-of-care paclitaxel and carboplatin (PC) in patients with advanced and recurrent endometrial cancer (EC). Methods In this phase II/III…
View details →Rosell R, Karachaliou N, Codony J et al. · 2014 · Translational lung cancer research
Designing molecular targeted therapy with high specificity based on novel tumor biomarkers is a high priority in lung cancer research. Several molecular aberrations have been already identified in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with…
View details →Le Duc W, Butler CR, Argyropoulos GPD et al. · 2025 · PLoS biology
Rodent and human data implicate the hippocampus in the arbitration of approach-avoidance conflict (AAC), which arises when an organism is confronted with a stimulus associated simultaneously with reward and punishment. Yet, the precise…
View details →Whitty JA, Wagner AP, Kang E et al. · 2023 · The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology
Background There is growing evidence regarding the potential of closed incision negative pressure wound therapy (ci-NPWT) to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs) in healing wounds by primary closure following a caesarean section (CS).…
View details →Ip EH, Saldana S, Miller KD et al. · 2021 · Cancer
Background E5103 was a study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bevacizumab. It was a negative trial for the end points of invasive disease-free survival and overall survival. The current work examines the tolerability of…
View details →Kim CK, Lee YR, Ong L et al. · 2022 · Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Given the acknowledged lack of success in Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug development over the past two decades, the objective of this review was to derive key insights from the myriad failures to inform future drug development. A systematic…
View details →Li W, Bunch CM, Zackariya S et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Disordered hemostasis associated with life-threatening hemorrhage commonly afflicts patients in the emergency department, critical care unit, and perioperative settings. Rapid and sensitive hemostasis phenotyping is needed to guide…
View details →Shepard S, Anderson JM, Heigle B et al. · 2023 · Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research
Purpose To our knowledge, no study has quantified the rate of discontinuation and nonpublication of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) regarding upper and lower extremity fractures. Methods We searched ClinicalTrials.gov on September 9th,…
View details →Meyers DE, Jenei K, Chisamore TM et al. · 2021 · JAMA internal medicine
Importance Cancer drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration have come under scrutiny for marginal clinical benefits; however, the clinical benefits of cancer drugs recommended for reimbursement in Canada have not been…
View details →O'Sullivan Coyne G, Burotto M · 2014 · Expert opinion on biological therapy
Introduction Monoclonal antibodies and small molecules targeting the VEGF pathway are part of the arsenal to treat malignant tumors. Antiangiogenesis therapies has been studied in breast cancer with partial success, reflected by the…
View details →Bajwa MS, Jackson R, Dhanda J et al. · 2023 · Cancers
Objectives High-quality randomised controlled trials (RCT) to support the use of Fibrin Sealants (FS) in neck dissection (ND) are lacking. The DEFeND trial assessed critical pilot/feasibility questions and signals from clinical outcomes to…
View details →Levy MM · 2013 · Critical care (London, England)
During the past 50 years, caring for the critically ill has become increasingly complex and the need for an intensivist has become more evident. Management by intensivists has become a quality indicator for many ICUs. Numerous small…
View details →Rodrigue JR, Fleishman A, Fitzpatrick S et al. · 2015 · Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.)
Context Since nearly all registered organ donors in the United States signed up via a driver's license transaction, motor vehicle (MV) offices represent an important venue for organ donation education. Objective To evaluate the impact of…
View details →Howland RH · 2015 · Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services
Seven topics previously described in this column are revisited. The use of quantitative electroencephalography has been shown in a prospective study to be effective for predicting antidepressant treatment response. A novel antidepressant…
View details →Jones SA, Morand EF · 2024 · Drugs
The development of new medicines for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has not addressed unmet clinical need, with only three drugs receiving regulatory approval for SLE in the last 60 years, one of which was specifically licensed for…
View details →Saraceni F, Scortechini I, Mancini G et al. · 2021 · Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a common complication of hematopoietic stem cell transplant, which is known to be mediated by cytotoxic T-cell effectors and dysregulated inflammatory cytokines. Similarly, the lung injury observed in…
View details →Kim JK, Karp JM, Gerber NK · 2023 · Clinical and translational radiation oncology
Background/purpose The optimal management of residual micrometastases and isolated tumor cells (ITC) in patients with invasive breast cancer who undergo neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by definitive surgery is not well-studied. We…
View details →Ford KL, Sawyer MB, Ghosh S et al. · 2024 · ESMO open
Background Low muscle mass (MM) predicts unfavorable outcomes in cancer. Protein intake supports muscle health, but oncologic recommendations are not well characterized. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of…
View details →Wulff KC, Miller FG, Pearson SD · 2011 · Health affairs (Project Hope)
To attain the anticipated benefits of increased investments in comparative effectiveness research, the results must translate into improved medical practice and policy. In this article we present an analysis of a case study of percutaneous…
View details →Komiya T, Huang CH · 2018 · Frontiers in oncology
Recent application of immunotherapy in clinical oncology revolutionized our management of advanced human cancers. Check point inhibitors targeting CTLA4 and PD-1/PD-L1 axis are immunotherapeutic agents currently available to treat a…
View details →Ponizovsky AM, Rosca P, Aronovich E et al. · 2015 · Journal of substance abuse treatment
Background Limited clinical trials and case-reports yielded conflicting results regarding the efficacy of baclofen (a GABAB agonist) in the treatment of alcohol dependence. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy and tolerability of…
View details →Park L, Furey M, Nugent AC et al. · 2019 · The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology
Background This randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial examined the antidepressant efficacy of the muscarinic antagonist scopolamine in major depressive disorder subjects with more severe and refractory forms of major depressive…
View details →Scheperjans F, Levo R, Bosch B et al. · 2024 · JAMA neurology
Importance Dysbiosis has been robustly demonstrated in Parkinson disease (PD), and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has shown promising effects in preclinical PD models. Objective To assess the safety and symptomatic efficacy of…
View details →Wu CC, Wolfe JM · 2022 · Vision research
During a visual search for a target among distractors, observers do not fixate every location in the search array. Rather processing is thought to occur within a Functional Visual Field (FVF) surrounding each fixation. We argue that there…
View details →Black PC, Tangen CM, Singh P et al. · 2023 · European urology
Background Although radical cystectomy (RC) is the standard of care for patients with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), many patients are ineligible for surgery or elect…
View details →Coxon AT, Johanns TM, Dunn GP · 2020 · Missouri medicine
Glioblastoma is a devastating disease with a dismal prognosis. While recent advancements in cancer immunotherapy have led to improvements in treating other types of cancer, patients with glioblastoma have not benefited from these new…
View details →Tripathy S, Acharya SP, Sahoo AK et al. · 2022 · Critical care explorations
Optimal time for ICU diary delivery and impact on mental health (MH), anxiety-depression, post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), quality of life (QOL), and memories is unclear. We evaluated the effect of ICU diaries, dispatched at…
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