Epidemiological trends and healthcare disparities in onychomycosis: An analysis of the All of Us research program. by Aditya K Gupta, Vasiliki Economopoulos, Tong Wang, Vincent Piguet

“…Efforts to reduce these inequalities, such as expanded health coverage, reducing communication barriers and increasing patient and physician education are needed.…”
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Hyperglycaemia after dolutegravir-based antiretroviral treatment in people living with human immunodeficiency virus: A case series by Keerthana Sagadevan, Pilla S. Surya Durga Devi, Katikatala Swaroopa, P. Sathish Sreenivas, R. Srinivasa Rao

“…Whenever a patient has been started on a DTG-based ART regimen, the treating physician should counsel the patient about warning signs of hyperglycaemia, recommended to do periodic screening of blood sugar levels which helps in the early diagnosis and treatment of such cases.…”
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Case Reports of a New Method for Differential Diagnosis of Calcified Carotid Artery Atheroma by Guilherme Augusto Alves de Oliveira, Cleiterson Rezende de Sá, Omar Ribeiro Santos Junior, Rafael Pereira da Mata Santos, Flávio Ricardo Manzi

“…Manzi Projection can promote a differential diagnosis of calcified atheromas in dental practice and consequently subsidize the clinician for referring the patient to the physician.…”
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Diagnosis and treatment of nervous system diseases at the beginning of the 19th century in Vilnius university clinics by E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė, G. Motiejūnas, D. Jatužis

“… Practical skills have been and are still important in productive professions such as metal and glass processing, watch and tool manufacturing, building, ship building and others. A physician must also acquire certain practical skills in order to properly diagnose the disease and to treat the patient. …”
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Patterns of noncicatricial alopecia in children: a cross-sectional study by Essam Elden M. Mohamed, Hazem L. Abdel-Aleem, Yara T. Tawfik

“…It represents a challenge for the treating physician, is extremely upsetting to the parents, and has a psychosocial complication for the growing child. …”
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Teaching-learning of the "family" content in the General Practitioner’s training from education at work by Mabel Rocha Vázquez, Josè Aurelio Dìaz Quiñones, Norma Mur Villar

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> the "family" content is of vital importance in the General Physician’s training in Cuba because the family is constituted as a group that is the objective of medical care.…”
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Evaluation of the effect of a nurse-led vestibular rehabilitation program enriched with yoga on knowledge levels and vertigo symptoms in patients with vertigo by Gayathri Selvaraj, Santhanasamy Punitha, Ganesan Dayanidy, Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

“…By contrast, the control group received standard care, including prescription of drugs by the physician and follow-up. Data collection involved structured instruments, including sociodemographic and clinical variables, a multiple-choice questionnaire to gauge knowledge levels, and a 5-point Likert scale to measure the intensity of vertigo symptoms. …”
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Primary Bronchopulmonary Actinomycosis Masquerading as Lung Cancer: Apropos of Two Cases and Literature Review by Stamatis Katsenos, Iosif Galinos, Panagiota Styliara, Nikoletta Galanopoulou, Konstantinos Psathakis

“…The disease can mimic lung malignancy given its nonspecific clinical and radiological presentation, thus posing a diagnostic dilemma to the attending physician. In this paper, we describe two patients with pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma; the former presented with peripheral infiltrate and associated hilar/mediastinal lymphadenopathy and the latter presented with a foreign body-induced endobronchial mass. …”
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Modeling and scientific analysis of pediatric medication evaluation based on MDM-DEA-Malmquist model: construction of health management in pediatrics in developing countries by Kaixian Fang, Shaoqin Xue

“…Results We found that indicators such as physician literacy, health records, child status, and parental awareness were the most important under different medication cycles and goals. …”
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Diegif: An efficient and secured DICOM to EGIF conversion framework for confidentiality in machine learning training by Abdullah Al Siam, Md Maruf Hassan, Md Atikur Rahaman, Masuk Abdullah

“…The framework comprises four key components: (1) converting DICOM files to GIF format with encryption, (2) decrypting EGIF files for processing, (3) enabling confidentiality-preserving machine learning training using EGIF data, and (4) facilitating physician diagnosis and report generation based on trained machine learning models. …”
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The convergence of health system resources and health outcome in Central Europe and the Baltic region by Shailender Singh, Chitra Krishnan, Nishant Kumar, Supriya Lamba Sahdev

“…The panel result favors the existence of convergence in the three variables employed as health system resources – physician density, nurses’ density, and per capita current health expenditure. …”
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Upregulation of FOXO3 in New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Magdalena Zurawek, Marta Fichna, Piotr Fichna, Maria Czainska, Natalia Rozwadowska

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Predisposing Factors and Etiology of Deep Neck Space Infections – A Hospital-based Cross-sectional Study by Utkarsh Jain, Mahima Luthra, Sampan Singh Bist, Lovneesh Kumar, Vinish Kumar Agarwal

“…Conclusion: Primary health-care physician should be aware of the signs and symptoms of DNSI so that early detection and timely referral can be done to prevent life threatening complications. …”
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The Effect of Acupuncture along with Conventional Therapies on the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: A Clinical Trial by Sayed Mostafa Hashemi, Farhang Mokhtarinejad, Seyed Mojtaba Abtahi Forooshani, Mehran Rezvani Habibabadi

“…All patients underwent standard AR treatment under the supervision of a specialist physician. Twenty-four patients were treated with acupuncture and 27 patients were considered as the control group. …”
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A Dermal Piercing Complicated by Mycobacterium fortuitum by Trisha Patel, Leslie Scroggins-Markle, Brent Kelly

“…She was treated with a 10-day course of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and one course of cephalexin by her primary care physician with incomplete resolution. The patient stated that she had been swimming at a local water park daily. …”
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Quantifying Patient Demand for Orthopedics Care by Region Through Google Trends Analysis: Descriptive Epidemiology Study by Abram Qiu, Kristopher Meadows, Fei Ye, Osasu Iyawe, Kenneth Kenneth-Nwosa

“…MethodsThe data used were from the US Census Bureau, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) through their 2024 Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) directory, AAMC State Physician Workforce Data Report, and Google Trends. …”
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Triceps Tendon Avulsion in a Soldier: A Case Report by Rita Chorba, Collin Hu, Jess Feldtmann

“…The MSK US findings informed the physical therapist's decision-making process to refer the subject for timely advanced imaging studies as well as referral to an orthopedic physician. # Outcomes A high-grade partial triceps tendon avulsion was confirmed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). …”
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Sources of Bias in Common Diagnosis of Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by O. A. Svatkova, A. A. Sheptulin

“…We continuously sampled 80 CIBD histories (44 of ulcerative colitis, UC, and 36 of Crohn’s disease, CD) to estimate the time and nature of first complaints, primary diagnosis, time lapse between the first physician visit and diagnosis and reasons for a late diagnosis.Results. …”
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Santa Cruz, Bolivia: outbreak investigation and antibody prevalence study. by Joel M Montgomery, Patrick J Blair, Darin S Carroll, James N Mills, Alberto Gianella, Naomi Iihoshi, Ana M Briggiler, Vidal Felices, Milagros Salazar, James G Olson, Raisa A Glabman, Daniel G Bausch

“…The first case was a physician infected with Laguna Negra virus during a weekend visit to his ranch. …”
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A handheld fiber-optic tissue sensing device for spine surgery. by Merle S Losch, Benjamin E Visser, Jenny Dankelman, Benno H W Hendriks

“…Accurate placement of pedicle screws, crucial for successful spinal fusion, varies widely with physician experience. Integrating tissue sensing into spine surgical instruments allows intraoperative examination of tissue properties, providing surgeons with additional information to prevent screw misplacement. …”
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