High Healthcare Utilization in Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease Prior to Transition to Adult Care: A Retrospective Study by Julie Kanter, Menaka Bhor, Xin Li, Frank Li, Jincy Paulose

“…**Background:** The transition from pediatric to adult care in the US is often difficult for individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD). …”
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The role of music performance anxiety in musical training: four personal histories by Oscar Casanova, María Elena Riaño, Francisco Javier Zarza-Alzugaray, Santos Orejudo

“…The qualitative approach will help us to better understand the MPA phenomenon.…”
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Opportunities for promoting open data in the Caribbean through biobanks by Sushant Saluja, Simon G. Anderson

“…It analyzes successful models such as the UK Biobank, the All of Us Research Program at the United States’ National Institutes of Health, and Human Heredity and Health in Africa (known as H3Africa), hosted at the University of Cape Town, pinpointing key lessons on data-sharing, ethical governance and infrastructure that could be applied to the Caribbean context. …”
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Food access interventions in American Indian and Alaska Native communities by Danya Carroll, Lynn Mad Plume, Nicole Redvers

“…Using a scoping review methodology, we aimed to map the existing Indigenous community food access literature in the U.S. to the SEM to identify common SEM impact leve ls that food access interventions are targeting. …”
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Asking an AI for salary negotiation advice is a matter of concern: Controlled experimental perturbation of ChatGPT for protected and non-protected group discrimination on a context... by R Stuart Geiger, Flynn O'Sullivan, Elsie Wang, Jonathan Lo

“…Our epistemology does not permit us to definitively certify these models as either generally biased or unbiased on the attributes we test, but our study raises matters of concern for stakeholders to further investigate.…”
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The Impact of Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists on Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Medication by Christian Frois, Thomas O’Connell, Jacqueline Pesa, John Fastenau

“…**Background:** Few studies have attempted to assess the effectiveness of formulary management in reducing the antipsychotic costs and utilization across U.S. state Medicaid programs, despite concerns about the potential impact of such formulary management on Medicaid patient health outcomes. …”
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A Retrospective Claims-Based Study Evaluating Clinical and Economic Burden Among Patients With Moderate to Severe Osteoarthritis Pain in the United States by Patricia B. Schepman, Sheena Thakkar, Rebecca L. Robinson, Craig G. Beck, Deepa Malhotra, Birol Emir, Ryan N. Hansen

“…Understanding the heterogeneity within the OA population may allow us to further appreciate the true burden of illness for patients in pain.…”
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Outcome of Management of Midshaft Clavicular Fractures with Titanium Elastic Nail System: A Case Series by Karthik Chithartha, Vanasekar Mokkasamy

“…Introduction: The management of displaced midshaft clavicular fractures (MSCFs) is still a constant debate, and the current trend toward minimally invasive osteosynthesis has led us to study this technique and the outcome of stabilization using the titanium elastic nail system (TENS). …”
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A harmonic model validation methodology for power generation units based on voltage-current phasor characteristic by Kia Malekian Boroujeni, Farhad Safargholi, Kaveh Malekian

“…The voltage-current phasor characteristic can give us a visual view of the harmonic current phasor response of any model to various harmonic voltage phasors with different magnitudes and phase angles in just one diagram. …”
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Reflexiones sobre el proyecto Auto-Demarcación y EtnoCartografía de las Tierras y Hábitats Jodï y Eñepa by Stanford Zent, Egleé L. Zent, Lucas Juae Mölö, Pablo Chonokó

“…Third, the multiple realities of the map are evidenced by spatial-temporal polysemy, which have forced us to recognize the different ways of perceiving and experiencing space and time among non-western peoples, for example internalized in daily life yet externalized in symbolic representations at the same time. …”
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Integrated malaria vector control strategies and their effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review protocol for interventional studies by Diederick E Grobbee, Lihanimpo Djalogue, Marianne van der Sande, Patrice Ngangue, Gountante Kombate, Kamba Andre-Marie Soubeiga

“…The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines will guide us in applying a systematic approach to screening, reviewing and extracting data. …”
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Using a Consumer Wearable Activity Monitoring Device to Study Physical Activity and Sleep Among Adolescents in Project Viva: Cohort Study by Yutong Zhang, Nicole Bornkamp, Marie-France Hivert, Emily Oken, Peter James

“…ConclusionsThis study demonstrated the feasibility of using consumer wearable devices to measure physical activity and sleep in a cohort of US adolescents. The high compliance rates provide valuable insights into adolescent behavior patterns and their influence on chronic disease development and mental health outcomes.…”
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Health Economic Analysis of Two-Layer Bandage System for Treatment of Chronic Venous Insufficiency by Peter J. Mallow

“…The follow-up time was a maximum of 6 weeks, and the perspective of the study was a US outpatient treatment center. Economic data for compression therapy were based on the public prices of a 2LB system. …”
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Primary liver lymphoma: review of the literature and clinical case presentation by A. K. Smolyaninova, A. V. Gubkin, Ye. Ye. Zvonkov, Yu. A. Kucheryavy

“…Male 38-year-old patient developed acute symptoms: sweating, general weakness, febrile fever, weight loss (50 kg for 4 months), abdominal pain combined to hepatomegaly and multiple focal lesions in the liver according to abdominal US, with 5 unsuccessful attempts for 6 months to receive informative tissue sample. …”
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Secondary Prevention Using Cholesterol-Lowering Medications in Patients with Prior Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis by Xue Han, Steven Fox, Michelle Chu, Jeff McCombs

“…Early treatment was associated with significant reductions in the risk of an ASCVD hospitalization at any time following the identification of the patient’s eligibility for secondary prevention (by 33% compared to those treated late or never, *P*\<.0001), but was significantly associated with higher total cost over the first post-index year (by US \$509, *P*\<.001). Patients whose low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels were \>130 mg/dL experienced higher ASCVD hospitalization risks, and also larger risk reductions if treated before an ASCVD hospitalization compared to patients with lower LDL-C levels who were treated late or never treated. …”
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Electrophysiologically calibrated optogenetic stimulation of dentate granule cells mitigates dendritic spine loss in denervated organotypic entorhino-hippocampal slice cultures by Tijana Hanauske, Carolin Christina Koretz, Tassilo Jungenitz, Jochen Roeper, Alexander Drakew, Thomas Deller

“…This information allowed us to calibrate light intensity for chronic stimulations. …”
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Assessing the Fiscal Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Japan through Application of a Public Economic Framework by Ataru Igarashi, Cillian Copeland, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Riku Ota, Silvia Capucci, Daisuke Adachi

“…**Results:** The total fiscal burden of OAO in Japan, defined as BMI of at least 25, is estimated at US $13.41 billion (¥1925 billion), representing 0.4% of Japan’s gross domestic product. …”
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Scaling up uncertain predictions to higher levels of organisation tends to underestimate change by James A. Orr, Jeremy J. Piggott, Andrew L. Jackson, Jean‐François Arnoldi

“…Abstract Uncertainty is an irreducible part of predictive science, causing us to over‐ or underestimate the magnitude of change that a system of interest will face. …”
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Costs of Potential Medication Wastage Due to Switching Treatment Among People With Multiple Sclerosis by Darin T. Okuda, Achal Patel, Robert Schuldt, Ibraheem Abioye, Nicole G. Bonine

“…**Objectives:** To estimate the cost associated with potential medication wastage (PMW) in a subcohort of PwMS receiving oral or self-injectable US Food and Drug Administration–approved DMTs who switched DMTs in a calendar year in the United States. …”
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Ultrasound-guided deep versus superficial continuous serratus anterior plane block for pain management in patients with multiple rib fractures: A prospective randomized double-blin... by Mohamed F. Mostafa, Mohamed Abdel-Moniem Bakr, Mohamed Ismail Seddik, Mohammed Mamdouh Mohammed Mahmoud, Gamal M.A. Ibrahim, Ahmed Talaat Ahmed

“…We hypothesized that the deep approach of ultrasound (US)–guided continuous SAPB could be superior for MRFs pain management. …”
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