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Chalak LF, Kang S, Kota S et al. · 2023 · Early human development
Background There is a critical need for development of physiological biomarkers in infants with birth asphyxia to identify the physiologic response to therapies in real time. This is an ancillary single site study of the High-Dose…
View details →Mudugal D, Monteith TS · 2021 · Expert review of neurotherapeutics
Introduction : Cluster headache [CH] is a severely disabling trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia [TAC]. Approximately 1 in 1,000 adults are affected by CH. Calcitonin gene-related peptide [CGRP] is an important mediator in the pathophysiology…
View details →Figueroa-Parra G, Putman MS, Crowson CS et al. · 2024 · Lupus science & medicine
Objective We aimed to evaluate the robustness of phase III randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for SLE and lupus nephritis (LN) using the fragility index (FI), the reverse FI (RFI) and the fragility quotient (FQ). Methods We searched for…
View details →Li S, Mahr C, Kataria R et al. · 2026 · JACC. Advances
Background Landmark randomized controlled trials like DanGer Shock, IABP-SHOCK II, and ECLS-SHOCK guide infarct-related cardiogenic shock (CS) management with temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS), but strict enrollment criteria…
View details →Albers GW, Bernstein R, Brachmann J et al. · 2021 · Stroke
Occult atrial fibrillation (AF) is a leading cause of stroke of unclear cause. The optimal approach to secondary stroke prevention for these patients remains elusive. The term embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) was coined to…
View details →Ishizuka K, Ono S · 2025 · Journal of clinical pharmacology
Despite the tremendous effort in the oncology community, the success rate of anticancer development remained low at 30% to 40% from the Phase 3 study to the regulatory approval. The factors associated with the regulatory approval for…
View details →Chen H, Colasurdo M, Matsukawa H et al. · 2026 · European stroke journal
Introduction Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is an effective treatment for basilar artery occlusion (BAO) stroke in select patients. While there is a growing body of literature suggesting that advanced imaging modalities such as computed…
View details →Cerbone L, Orecchia S, Bertino P et al. · 2023 · Cancers
Mesothelioma comprises a group of rare cancers arising from the mesothelium of the pleura, peritoneum, tunica vaginalis testis and pericardium. Mesothelioma is generally associated with asbestos exposure and has a dismal prognosis, with…
View details →Pope JE · 2020 · The Lancet. Rheumatology
Strides have been made in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension and interstitial lung disease in patients with systemic sclerosis, with successful trials of combination therapies in pulmonary arterial hypertension and of new…
View details →Persu A, Stoenoiu MS, Maes F et al. · 2023 · Clinical kidney journal
Following second-generation randomized trials, there is evidence that renal denervation (RDN) decreases blood pressure (BP), although to a lesser extent than suggested in the initial controlled and observational studies. The recent…
View details →Azarbarzin A, Vena D, Esmaeili N et al. · 2026 · European heart journal
Background and aims Randomized trials of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in patients with cardiovascular disease have not detected reduced risk of major adverse cardiovascular and…
View details →de Zeeuw D · 2020 · Journal of nephrology
Patients with type 2 diabetes run a high risk for progressive renal function loss. Many interventions have been tested to reduce the risk, but we are nowadays still confronted with a high unmet need. To improve on this unmet need, we will…
View details →Georgiadis AG, Schavee PE, Koester TM et al. · 2025 · JB & JS open access
Background Cast removal may produce pain or anxiety in children. Virtual reality (VR) has been studied in other pediatric settings, but little evidence exists for its use during pediatric cast removal. Methods A randomized controlled trial…
View details →Bromberg JEC, Issa S, van der Holt B et al. · 2024 · Neuro-oncology
Background Studies on the efficacy of rituximab in primary CNS lymphoma (PCNSL) reported conflicting results. Our international randomized phase 3 study showed that the addition of rituximab to high-dose methotrexate, BCNU, teniposide, and…
View details →Pellesi L, Onan D, Martelletti P · 2024 · Toxins
Post-traumatic headache (PTH) is a common and debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI), often resembling migraine and tension-type headaches. Despite its prevalence, the optimal treatment for PTH remains unclear, with…
View details →Zhou Q, Gao B, Hu J et al. · 2026 · BMJ oncology
Background Many patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have tumours that are either refractory or develop resistance following an initial response to anti-programmed cell death protein (ligand)-1 (PD-(L)1)-based treatment,…
View details →Kasperkiewicz M, van Beek N, Schmidt E · 2026 · Drugs
Autoimmune blistering diseases (AIBDs) are a heterogeneous group of at least a dozen disorders characterized by autoantibodies against structural proteins of desmosomes in the skin and surface-close epithelia in pemphigus and of the…
View details →Baugher B, Walter E, Hennigs E et al. · 2025 · Cureus
Freezing of gait (FoG) is a disabling symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) characterized by involuntary cessation/reduction. While deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the subthalamic nucleus (STN) effectively treats common PD symptoms…
View details →Gomeni R, Hopkins S, Bressolle-Gomeni F et al. · 2023 · Translational psychiatry
The objective of this study was to evaluate the performances of the propensity score weighted (PSW) methodology in a post-hoc re-analysis of a failed and a negative RCTs in depressive disorders. The conventional study designs,…
View details →Park L, Furey M, Nugent A et al. · 2018 · Biological psychiatry
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This conference abstract has been retracted at the request of author Maura Furey,…
View details →Autler AS, Darling AM, Skow RJ et al. · 2025 · Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical
Young women, who suffer from major depressive disorder (MDD) at twice the rate as young men, are particularly vulnerable to cardiovascular events triggered by emotional stress, an association that may be partially explained by excessive…
View details →Molto A, López-Medina C, Van den Bosch FE et al. · 2021 · Annals of the rheumatic diseases
Objectives To compare the benefits of a tight-control/treat-to-target strategy (TC/T2T) in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) with those of usual care (UC). Methods Pragmatic, prospective, cluster-randomised, controlled, open, 1-year trial…
View details →Denton CP, Del Galdo F, Khanna D et al. · 2022 · Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Objectives The cytokine oncostatin M (OSM) is implicated in the pathology of SSc. Inhibiting OSM signalling using GSK2330811 (an anti-OSM monoclonal antibody) in patients with SSc has the potential to slow or stop the disease process.…
View details →Khan A, Khan H, Hughes GK et al. · 2024 · Cancer medicine
Objective This study aims to evaluate published clinical trials of ramucirumab to assess the risk/benefit profile and burden over time for patients. Background The burden of oncologic drug development on patients paired with increasing…
View details →Hu L · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract Temporal mutual information, O(τ ) = I(Xt; Yt+τ )/H(Xt), measures what fraction of a system’s hidden state is recoverable from its output at lag τ . We test this metric on AI hidden states, agent-based model aggregates, 15 US…
View details →Kendall C, Swaminathan A, Borichevsky GM et al. · 2026 · JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
Background Fecal calprotectin (fCal) and fecal myeloperoxidase (fMPO) have been proposed as biomarkers for monitoring inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, their reliability is not fully established. This study investigated clinical…
View details →Lahiri JB, Panwar S · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract Covariance matrices underpin multivariate signal classifiers in brain-computer interfaces, clinical neurophysiology, and condition monitoring. Characteristic Response Analysis (CRA) and its Positive-Orthant Characteristic Response…
View details →Zeiger E, Mitchell CA, Pfuhler S et al. · 2024 · Environmental and molecular mutagenesis
The Ames test is required by regulatory agencies worldwide for assessing the mutagenic and carcinogenic potential of chemical compounds. This test uses several strains of bacteria to evaluate mutation induction: positive results in the…
View details →Ferguson I, George G, Wu C et al. · 2025 · Cognitive therapy and research
Background The tendency to negatively interpret ambiguous situations (i.e., interpretation bias) is associated with the development and maintenance of emotional disorders. Reliable measures of this transdiagnostic construct are critical…
View details →van der Meulen C, van de Stadt LA, Kroon FPB et al. · 2025 · Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Objective Pain in hand osteoarthritis (OA) is evaluated with repeated pain questionnaires. It is unclear whether these questionnaires adequately capture changes in pain recalled by patients. This study investigated whether changes on pain…
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