Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Heart Failure Treatment by Leonardo Maikel Gómez Carcassés, Raiko Cruz Sosa, Francisco Jesús Valladares Carvajal, Juan José Navarro López, Víctor René Navarro Machado, Lázaro Enrique de la Cruz Avilés

“…The clinical practice guidelines are the result of the compilation and evaluation of all the relevant evidence available, on a particular topic, with the aim of helping physicians select the best diagnostic and therapeutic strategy to apply to a patient suffering from a determined disease. …”
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Subacute Brucellosis-induced Guillain-Barré Syndrome: a Case Report by Mehrdad MORADI-PORDANJANI, Ameneh MEHRI-GHAHFARROKHI, Sohrab MORADI-PORDANJANI, Fereidoun RAHMANI

“…Our findings indicate that physicians should consider brucellosis as a potential etiology of GBS and closely monitor the neurological symptoms of patients with brucellosis.…”
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Remote Ultrasound Scan Procedures with Medical Robots: Towards New Perspectives between Medicine and Engineering by Maide Bucolo, Gea Bucolo, Arturo Buscarino, Agata Fiumara, Luigi Fortuna, Salvina Gagliano

“…This review explores state-of-the-art teleoperated robots for medical ultrasound scan procedures, providing a comprehensive look including the recent trends arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. Physicians’ experience is included to indicate the importance of their role in the design of improved medical robots. …”
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Simulation and Analysis of Dynamics of Lower Limb Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robots by Ma Xiaojun, Liu Yuyang, Jia Qiusheng, Liu Desheng, Liu Xunbao, Yuan Mingrun

“…A lower limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robot can effectively improve the rehabilitation efficiency of patients with impaired lower limb motor function and reduce the workload of rehabilitation physicians. Therefore, a lower limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robot is designed, the relationship between the motion state of the exoskeleton robot and the motion mechanism of each joint is explored, the Lagrange equation to model the dynamics of the lower limb exoskeleton is used and the established virtual prototype model into Adams for dynamic simulation is imported. …”
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Acute pancreatitis mimicking myocardial ischemia: A case report and a review of the literature by Antonio Villa, Francesca Campagna, Giulia Gallotta, Riccardo Bennicelli, Paola Sartori

“…T-waves changes and ST-segment depression are common in acute pancreatitis and, therefore, emergency physicians should consider acute pancreatitis in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with chest pain and electrocardiographic changes.…”
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Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation Unmasked by Pregnancy: A Review of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations and Cardiovascular and Respiratory Changes in Pregnancy by Anita Lukic, Larisa Cmelak, Dominik Draženović, Hrvoje Kojundzic, Ivan Kresimir Lukic, Vicko Gluncic

“…The modified early obstetric warning score charts are a very helpful tool in the assessment of (ab)normal signs and symptoms in pregnant women, especially for physicians who rarely manage pregnant women.…”
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The heart failure specialists of tomorrow: a network for young cardiovascular scientists and clinicians by Markus S. Anker, Claire Bouleti, Theodoros Christodoulides, Angela Durante, Edit Gara, Sara Hadzibegovic, Kalliopi Keramida, Alessia Lena, Angela Massouh, Ivan Milinkovic, Matthias P. Nägele, Alexander Nossikoff, Rui Plácido, Tamás Radovits, Heli Tolppanen, Giuseppe Vergaro, Markus Wallner, Sophie Welch, Yuri Lopatin, Mitja Lainscak, Alexandre Mebazaa, Andrew J.S. Coats, Petar M. Seferović, Ewa A. Jankowska, for the Heart Failure Association Committee on Heart Failure Specialists of Tomorrow of the European Society of Cardiology

“…Abstract The “Heart failure specialists of Tomorrow” (HoT) group gathers young researchers, physicians, basic scientists, nurses and many other professions under the auspices of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. …”
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Intervention publique versus régulation professionnelle by Amandine Rauly

“…This technology should actually allow medical action standardization and thus encourage physicians to reduce their deviant behavior. Expenditure supervision and care quality improvement become the creed of telemedicine policy. …”
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Number of children and dementia risk: a causal mediation analysis using data from the HUNT study linked with national registries in Norway by Teferi Mekonnen, Vegard Skirbekk, Ekaterina Zotcheva, Bo Engdahl, Bernt Bratsberg, Astanand Jugessur, Catherine Bowen, Geir Selbæk, Hans-Peter Kohler, Jennifer R. Harris, Sarah E. Tom, Steinar Krokstad, Trine Holt Edwin, Yehani Wedatilake, Katrin Wolfova, Dana Kristjansson, Yaakov Stern, Asta Kristine Håberg, Bjørn Heine Strand

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Sexual health preparedness among medical students by Z.I. Merhavy, T.C. Varkey, T. Kotyk, C. Zeitler

“…It has been found that many medical students and early career physicians express feelings of being unprepared and undereducated on topics relating to patient sexual health. …”
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Elbow rotation affects the accuracy of rotational formulas: validation of a modified method by Yong Liu, Xiaoju Liang, Jianping Sun, Jining Qu, Bohai Qi, Yating Yang, Qiang Jie

“…Intraclass correlation coefficients for the five physicians were 0.966 for internal rotation and 0.989 for external rotation. …”
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Occupational violence toward mental health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international study by Rebeca Robles, Cary S. Kogan, María Elena Medina-Mora, María Elena Medina-Mora, José Ángel García-Pacheco, Tahilia J. Rebello, Brigitte Khoury, Maya Kulygina, Geoffrey M. Reed

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Causes and Clinical Profiles of Ascites at University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: Institution-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Oumer Abdu Muhie

“…Ascites is a common clinical condition encountered by physicians in day-to-day practice. It is caused by various underlying diseases. …”
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Plant Compounds Inhibit the Growth of W12 Cervical Precancer Cells Containing Episomal or Integrant HPV DNA; Tanshinone IIA Synergizes with Curcumin in Cervical Cancer Cells by Linda Saxe Einbond, Jing Zhou, Kunhui Huang, Mario R. Castellanos, Emeka Mbazor, Michael Balick, Hongbao Ma, James A. DeVoti, Stephen Redenti, Hsan-au Wu

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Fostering transformative learning and whole patient care among teaching hospital staff through artistic creation: a qualitative study by Kang-Ju Chou, Ying-Yao Cheng, Wen Cheng, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Chun-Teng Tsai, Hua-Chang Fang

“…Results From 2019 to 2021, 226 art projects were presented in the annual week-long exhibition. Postgraduate-year physicians and other hospital staff created 140 and 86 artworks, respectively. …”
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Representations of OxyContin in North American Newspapers and Medical Journals by Emma Whelan, Mark Asbridge, Susan Haydt

“…The analyses revealed inconsistent messages about the drug from physicians in the news media and in medical journals, which has likely contributed to the drug’s perception as a social problem. …”
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A Historical Perspective of Medical Education by Huseyin Balcioglu, Ugur Bilge, Ilhami Unluoglu

“… Even though there are significant developments in recent years in medical education, physicians are still needed reform and innovation in order to prepare the information society. …”
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Recommendations for the use of antiretroviral therapy in adults living with human immunodeficiency virus in Singapore by Chiaw Yee Choy, Chen Seong Wong, P Arun Kumar, Dariusz Piotr Olszyna, Yii Ean Teh, Mei Fong Jaime Chien, Asok Kurup, Yin Ling Koh, Lai Peng Ho, Hwa Lin Law, Nathalie Grace Sy Chua, Hui Yan Joy Yong, Sophia Archuleta

“…The National ART and Monitoring Recommendations by the National HIV Programme have been created to guide physicians on the prescribing of ART based on the patients’ needs. …”
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Hérétique ou dément ? Autour du procès de Thomas d’Apulie à Paris en 1388 by Maud Ternon

“…In october 1388, in Paris, a trial for heresy results for the first time in the use of forensic evidence. A group of physicians find the heretic mad, which allows him to escape death penalty. …”
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Antisemitism in Medicine: An International Perspective by Michael Gordon, Jerome Teitel, Ted Rosenberg, Ruth Oratz, Naomi Katz, David Katz

“…For example, prior to the Holocaust, many outstanding physicians in Germany were Jewish. However, even in the 1930s, refugee European Jewish doctors faced significant barriers when they tried to escape and practice elsewhere because of long-standing prejudices and anti-Jewish quotas in medical schools and hospitals around the world. …”
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