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Grant S, Goldberg E, Gadipudi A et al. · 2025 · Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Black transgender women report high levels of discrimination, which is associated with poor health outcomes. Some evidence suggests that intersectional discrimination-that is, interacting forms of marginalization related to one's real or…
View details →Bagby RM, Mortezaei A, McIntyre C et al. · 2026 · Journal of personality assessment
The Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ) was developed to assess alexithymia as a multidimensional construct consistent with the attention-appraisal model. This study evaluated the hierarchical structure of the PAQ using Goldberg's…
View details →Ferreira-Correia A, Mnisi N, Harwood K et al. · 2025 · Applied neuropsychology. Adult
The Working Memory Questionnaire (WMQ) was developed to assess everyday difficulties associated with working memory (WM) impairments. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the WMQ within a South African context. A…
View details →Baysari M, Stanceski K, Bamgboje-Ayodele A et al. · 2026 · BMC medical informatics and decision making
Background Single sign-on (SSO), tap-on-tap-off (TOTO) and virtual desktops (VD) are increasingly being used in hospitals to reduce the burden and risks of password management, but we know little about how these systems are used in…
View details →Awada Z, Kazmi N, Jones HJ et al. · 2026 · BMC cancer
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer incidence worldwide. Observational studies have suggested that hypertension may be a risk factor for BC. We tested whether systolic blood pressure (SBP) may influence BC and BC…
View details →Shah H, Ali M, Kilgallon JL et al. · 2026 · Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Neurosurgery and neurosurgical care continues to evolve and to embrace technological advances. AI is used to interpret radiological studies and to distill medical information, with the potential to help guide physicians and patients in…
View details →Nishida S, Watanabe N, Hashimoto K et al. · 2026 · Journal of plant research
Reproductive interference is a negative interspecific interaction that can drive mutually exclusive distributions of closely related species. While recent research indicates that reproductive interference in plants frequently occurs during…
View details →Nissi L, Elseragy A, Wahab A et al. · 2026 · American journal of otolaryngology
Background Depth of invasion (DOI) is a well-established prognostic factor in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Incorporating DOI into the OSCC staging system has substantially refined T-classification and now informs key…
View details →Looman MI, Klau MM, Schoenmakers TM et al. · 2026 · Journal of sleep research
While time in bed restriction is a core treatment mechanism of Sleep Restriction Therapy (SRT), empirical research has not yielded a relationship between insomnia improvement and adherence to the prescribed time in bed. We coin this…
View details →Clark C, Lira Calabrich S, Lallier M et al. · 2026 · Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
This study examined how orthographic characteristics relate to the learning and retention of novel written words in monolingual English and bilingual Welsh-English adults. Participants learned pseudowords designed to follow either…
View details →Vijay A, Fruzzetti AE · 2026 · Journal of interpersonal violence
Sexual victimization and assault are significant public health problems. Survivors of sexual assault have significantly increased risk for psychological health problems, physical health problems, interpersonal difficulties, and other…
View details →Wright PJ, Gruszczynski M · 2026 · Health communication
Pornography exposure and condomless sex studies to date have assumed a linear relationship and found only small effect sizes. The present study introduces the Disinhibition Threshold Hypothesis (DTH) in the context of emerging U.S. adults'…
View details →Murayama Y, Soma D, Kameya M et al. · 2026 · Discover mental health
Loneliness is a key risk factor for youth mental health; however, existing scales often fail to capture its multidimensional and relational nature. This study developed the [blinded] University Loneliness Scale (KULoS) for students in…
View details →Han M, Qu Y, Zeng M et al. · 2026 · Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
Background To investigate the associations of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) with the risk of mortality using observational and Mendelian randomization (MR) designs. Methods In a prospective cohort study based on UK…
View details →Jepsen K, Jepsen S, Hämmerle CHF et al. · 2026 · Clinical oral implants research
Aim To assess 3-year changes of peri-implant tissues following previous soft tissue (volume) augmentation (STA) with a volume-stable collagen matrix (VCMX) or connective tissue (SCTG) at single-implant restorations. Material and methods In…
View details →Eggert AK, Prang MA, Capodeanu-Nägler A et al. · 2026 · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Effects on juvenile growth have long been considered an important benefit of parental care, but they have rarely been tested empirically. Protection and feeding by parents might accelerate offspring growth by allowing offspring to allocate…
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What is hodgkin lymphoma? • Hodgkin lymphoma is a B-cell lymphoid malignancy generally associated with a favourable prognosis (high cure rate and 5-year overall survival [OS] rates exceeding 90%), but it often comes with a high risk of…
View details →Zeng J, Huang D, Zhu M et al. · 2025 · Medicine
Weekend catch-up sleep (WCS) is a behavioral strategy employed to compensate for weekday sleep loss and has been reported to be associated with various metabolic outcomes. However, its association with obesity remains controversial. This…
View details →Martin E, Conway CJ · 2026 · Ecology and evolution
Aggregation is common across taxa and typically confers clear benefits to group members (e.g., allo-parenting, group defense, thermoregulation, access to resources). But aggregation can also be costly. The mechanisms that underpin…
View details →Malmagro R, García‐Navas V, Priyadarshana TS et al. · 2025 · Global Ecology and Biogeography
AIM: Historical and contemporary environmental factors are hypothesised to influence the degree of ecological specialisation of species. Long‐term climate stability might facilitate specialisation by promoting stable environments and…
View details →Labbani-Motlagh Z, Nozarian Z, Haghi Ashtiani MT et al. · 2025 · Iranian journal of immunology : IJI
Background Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) typically manifests with milder symptoms and lower mortality rates in children when compared to adults. Objective To investigate potential mechanisms underlying this age-related protection, we…
View details →Bahmani A, Kemmerly T, Yang BE · 2026 · ACG case reports journal
Esophageal lichen planus (ELP) is a rare inflammatory disorder frequently misdiagnosed due to its nonspecific symptoms and overlapping features with other esophageal conditions. We present 3 cases of ELP characterized by delayed diagnosis…
View details →Komai T · 2025 · Zootaxa
A new pagurid hermit crab species, Pagurus inflatus sp. nov., has been provisionally assigned to the heterogeneous genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775. This new species is characteristic in its elongated right cheliped with a noticeably inflated…
View details →Petrini S, Martucciello A, Righi C et al. · 2025 · Vaccine: X
Bovine alphaherpesvirus 1 (BoAHV-1) is a major cattle pathogen that causes infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) and other respiratory and reproductive disorders, resulting in substantial global economic losses to the cattle industry.…
View details →Su J, Zhang WB, Sun B et al. · 2025 · Experimental & applied acarology
Haemaphysalis flava Neumann, 1897 is recognized as a vector for Dabie bandavirus (severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, SFTSV), which is the etiological agent of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS). The tick…
View details →Edsor E, Jose M, Sajesh S et al. · 2025 · Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences
Background The aim of this study is to assess whether there is a difference in the wound healing process following the extraction of a tooth between type 2 diabetes patients on oral hypoglycemic medications and nondiabetic patients.…
View details →Del Rivero J, Donahue RN, Marte JL et al. · 2025 · The oncologist
Background It has been hypothesized that sequencing antigen-directed immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors could prime a tumor for immune response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Methods This study (NCT03072160) was designed to…
View details →Andersen Z, Kilgore S, Waite-Cusic J et al. · 2025 · Journal of dairy science
Hispanic-style cheeses (HSC), particularly fresh soft varieties, have been associated with numerous outbreaks of Listeria monocytogenes, highlighting the need to identify product characteristics or interventions that could mitigate L.…
View details →Bybee SG, Clayton JL, Aruscavage N et al. · 2025 · The Gerontologist
Background and objectives Persons living with dementia often rely upon a care partner as their surrogate medical decision maker, yet little is known about how dementia care dyads achieve advance care planning (ACP) concordance: when a care…
View details →Achilles S, Tomczak JN, Baumann FS et al. · 2025 · American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology
DRA (Downregulated in adenoma, SLC26A3) is a major apical intestinal Cl - /HCO 3 - exchanger, which is expressed in complex and hybrid N -glycosylated forms. Although the importance of N -glycosylation is evident from the significantly…
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