Evaluation of a transdiagnostic mental health intervention in German primary care: study protocol for a parallel-group, two-arm, cluster randomised controlled pilot study by Christopher Ebert, Marie Vogel, Jochen Gensichen, Hanna Reif, Lena Grögor, Lukas Junker, Thomas Ehring, Alkomiet Hasan, Stefan Leucht, Kirsten Lochbühler, for the POKAL-Group

“…Abstract Background General practitioners play an important role in the first-line care of individuals with mental health conditions. …”
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Health Services Availability and Readiness for Management of Hypertension and Diabetes in Primary Care Health Facilities in Ghana: a Cardiovascular Risk Management project by Thomas Hinneh, Bernard Mensah, Hosea Boakye, Oluwabunmi Ogungbe, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah

“…Conclusion: Facilities demonstrated high readiness for basic hypertension and diabetes care, with higher availability of some essential medications and basic clinical logistics and equipment. …”
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Structural variability of sunflower gene for methionine-rich albumin SFA8 by I. N. Anisimova, N. V. Alpatieva, S. V. Goryunova, D. V. Goryunov, Al. V. Konarev, V. A. Gavrilova, E. E. Radchenko

“…The 2S albumins of sunflower and other oilseed plants possess a high nutritional quality, the defense activity against fungi diseases casual gents and also valuable functional properties. …”
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Patient preferences for anti-hyperglycaemic medication for type 2 diabetes mellitus in China: findings from a national survey by Jing Liu, Lei Si, Yingyao Chen, Yanfeng Ren, Liu Liu, Shimeng Liu, Qi Pan, Xiong Ke, Shiyi Bao, Fuming Li, Yijiang Yu, Yan Wei

“…Objective This study aimed to investigate the preferences regarding risks, benefits and other treatment attributes of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in China when selecting a second-line anti-hyperglycaemic medicine.Methods A discrete choice experiment with hypothetical anti-hyperglycaemic medication profiles was performed using a face-to-face survey administered to patients with T2DM. …”
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Attributing heatwave-related mortality to climate change: a case study of the 2009 Victorian heatwave in Australia by Sarah E Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Linda Selvey, Philipp Aglas-Leitner, Nina Lansbury, Samuel Hundessa, Dáithí Stone, Kristie L Ebi, Nicholas John Osborne

“…We make clear that, in line with previous Australian-based studies, the focus on mortality relative to the top 5% of temperatures logically infers a smaller mortality signal relative to the top 50% of temperatures, as would be defined by a more general temperature-related epidemiological model. …”
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Real-world experiences with brentuximab vedotion-based regimens in systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma: a multi-center retrospective study by Zhiqiang Zhao, Qinchuan Yu, Liping Su, Jianxia He, Jie Tao, Yanfeng Xi, Yujiao Guo, Yanhong Luo, Lieyang Wang

“…BackgroundBrentuximab vedotin (BV) has demonstrated high remission rates in clinical trials for systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL), yet its real-world effectiveness in China remains unconfirmed. …”
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Polydatin enhances oxaliplatin-induced cell death by activating NOX5-ROS-mediated DNA damage and ER stress in colon cancer cells by Qi Zhao, Qi Zhao, Qi Zhao, Yan Zhang, Yan Zhang, Jieyu Liu, Peipei Chen, Annabeth Onga, Namki Cho, Ri Cui, Chenguo Zheng

“…Oxaliplatin (OXA)-based chemotherapy is the first-line treatment for metastatic and recurrent colorectal cancer (CRC). …”
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When can cancer patient treatment nonadherence be considered intentional or unintentional? A scoping review. by Leon Wreyford, Raj Gururajan, Xujuan Zhou

“…<h4>Background</h4>Treatment nonadherence in cancer patients remains high with most interventions having had limited success. …”
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BiomiX, a user-friendly bioinformatic tool for democratized analysis and integration of multiomics data by Cristian Iperi, Álvaro Fernández-Ochoa, Guillermo Barturen, Jacques-Olivier Pers, Nathan Foulquier, Eleonore Bettacchioli, Marta Alarcón-Riquelme, PRECISESADS Flow Cytometry Study Group, PRECISESADS Clinical Consortium, Divi Cornec, Anne Bordron, Christophe Jamin

“…Results BiomiX tackles the bottleneck in high-throughput omics data analysis, enabling efficient and integrated analysis of multiomics data obtained from two cohorts. …”
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Predictive value of preoperative pan-immune-inflammation value index in the prognosis of oral cancer patients undergoing radical resection by Weihai Huang, Yulan Lin, Enling Xu, Yanmei Ji, Jing Wang, Fengqiong Liu, Fa Chen, Yu Qiu, Bin Shi, Lisong Lin, Baochang He

“…Conclusions PIV is an independent predictor of prognosis in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma, and a column-line graphical model based on PIV can effectively predict prognosis.…”
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Gravitational-wave Dark Siren Cosmology Systematics from Galaxy Weighting by Alexandra G. Hanselman, Aditya Vijaykumar, Maya Fishbach, Daniel E. Holz

“…The magnitudes of these biases are influenced by the number of galaxies along each line of sight, the measurement uncertainty in the GW luminosity distance, and correlations in the parameter space of galaxies. …”
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Clinical and Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain characteristics of tuberculosis patients with diabetes mellitus in Changping District, Beijing, China by Xiaolong Cao, Zexuan Song, Ping He, Xinyue Li, Nan Lei, Qian Sun, Xue Wang, Ruida Xing, Bing Zhao, Xinyu Yang, Zhiguo Zhang, Yanlin Zhao

“…Conclusions The rising incidence of diabetes in tuberculosis patients within Changping District has intensified the spread of TB, with these patients demonstrating severe illness and high drug resistance. This study aims to develop targeted prevention and management strategies, offering crucial guidance for treating co-infections of TB and DM and controlling disease spread.…”
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Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes in Metastatic and Non-Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cells by Suppression Subtractive Hybridization by Xu-Yu Yang, Cai-Ping Ren, Lei Wang, Hui Li, Chun-Jie Jiang, Hong-Bo Zhang, Ming Zhao, Kai-Tai Yao

“…Background & Objective: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an epithelial neoplasm with high occurrence rates in southern China. The disease often metastasizes to regional lymphnodes at a very early stage. …”
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Protective factors, risk factors, and intervention strategies in the prevention and reduction of crime among adolescents and young adults aged 12-24 years: A scoping review protoco... by Rosanna Mary Rooney, Amber Hopkins, Jacob Peckover, Kael Coleman, Rebecca Sampson, Rosa Alati, Sharinaz Hassan, Christina M Pollard, Jaya A R Dantas, Roanna Lobo, Zakia Jeemi, Sharyn Burns, Robert Cunningham, Stephen Monterosso, Lynne Millar, Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver, Ranila Bhoyroo, Getinet Ayano

“…This is a critical gap given the disproportionally high rates of incarceration and youth detention among First Nations people globally, particularly in countries with a colonial past. …”
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Mitophagy mediated by HIF-1α/FUNDC1 signaling in tubular cells protects against renal ischemia/reperfusion injury by Wenjun Zhang, Chao Guo, Yi Li, Hao Wang, Huabing Wang, Yingying Wang, Tingting Wu, Huinan Wang, Gang Cheng, Jiangwei Man, Siyu Chen, Shengjun Fu, Li Yang

“…Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with a high mortality rate. Pathologically, renal ischemia/reperfusion injury (RIRI) is one of the primary causes of AKI, and hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α may play a defensive role in RIRI. …”
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Oridonin ameliorates renal fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy by inhibiting the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway by Jushuang Li, Lan Shu, Qianqian Jiang, Baohong Feng, Zhimin Bi, Geli Zhu, Yanxia Zhang, Xiangyou Li, Jun Wu

“…These findings may provide the first line of evidence showing that Ori alleviates fibrosis in DN by inhibiting the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and thereby reveal a novel therapeutic avenue for treating tubulointerstitial fibrosis.…”
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Emergence and polyclonal dissemination of NDM-5/OXA-181 carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli in the French Indian Ocean territories by Thibaut Vedani, Matthieu Pot, Thomas Garrigos, Loïk Sababadichetty, Marion Daniel, David Wilkinson, Thierry Benoit-Cattin, Olivier Belmonte, Patrick Mavingui, Laurent Dortet, Guillaume Miltgen

“…Conclusion We highlighted the dual dissemination of successful plasmids and the worrying circulation of high-risk clones via patients transfer between these two FOTs. …”
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Utilization of refuse-derived fuel in industrial applications: Insights from Uttar Pradesh, India by Utsav Sharma, Dayanand Sharma, Amit Kumar, Tushar Bansal, Ankit Agarwal, Shudhanshu Kumar, Abid Hussian, Hesam Kamyab, Moinul Haq

“…This research aims to develop refuse-derived fuel (RDF) as a viable option, converting waste into a high-calorific energy carrier for industrial use. …”
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p54-Fc-Labeled Gold Nanoparticle-Based Lateral Flow Strip-Assisted Portable Devices for Rapid and Quantitative Point-of-Care Detection of ASFV Antibodies by Yang Yang, Yuhao Li, Ziyang Wang, Minglong Tong, Pengcheng Zhu, Juanxian Deng, Zongjie Li, Ke Liu, Beibei Li, Donghua Shao, Zhongren Zhou, Yafeng Qiu, Zhiyong Ma, Jianchao Wei

“…The dilution of the serum sample can be determined by substituting the absorbance (T-line) interpreted by portable devices into the calibration curve function formula of an African swine fever virus standard serum. …”
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Papillary Urothelial Neoplasia with Low Malignant Potential (PUNLMP) in a 9-year-old Child: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Abbas Al Bazzal, Amarelle Chamoun, Zeinab Karaki, Ibrahim Ballout, Bachar Al Al, Linda Chamma, Hussein Issa, Mohamad Moussa, Hiba Hamdar

“…They comprise urothelial papilloma, inverted urothelial papilloma, papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential (PUNLMP), non-invasive low grade papillary urothelial carcinoma, and non-invasive high grade papillary urothelial carcinoma. PUNLMP are the commonest bladder tumors in children. …”
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