Patient education and follow-up units in Iran: A quality improvement project by Elham Almassi Ghaleh, Susan Jamshidi Farsani, Parastoo Ariamloo, Nasrin Mehrnoosh, Maryam Rassouli, Abbas Ebadi

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Knowledge of Healthcare Professionals Regarding Hepatitis B in Rania Hospitals by Zhino Raouf Ali, Mohammed Rasol Ahmed, Khalid Muhamad Hamad, Zhiar Hussen Wsu

“…It is a potentially life-threatening condition because leads to liver infection, and liver cancer. There is a shortage of research on undergraduate students. …”
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Evaluation of 30-day mortality in patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy in a tertiary hospital: a 3-year retrospective survey by Philippe Bichard, Jean-Louis Frossard, Laurent Spahr, Nicolas Goossens, Olivier Chatelanat, Laurent Bochatay, Caroline Bastid

“…Most frequent indications were suspected GI bleeding (162/345; 46.96%) and suspected cancer or tumourous staging (50/345; 14.49%). Major causes of death were oncological progression (72/251; 28.68%), cardiopulmonary failure or cardiac arrest of unkown origin (62/251; 24,7%) and liver failure (20/251; 7.96%). …”
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Collagen fibers quantification for liver fibrosis assessment using linear dichroism photoacoustic microscopy by Yang Qiu, Honghui Li, Kun Yu, Jiali Chen, Li Qi, Yinghua Zhao, Liming Nie

“…Liver fibrosis represents a progressive pathological condition that can culminate in severe hepatic dysfunction, potentially advancing to cirrhosis and liver cancer. The extent of liver fibrosis is intrinsically associated with the quantity of collagen fibers. …”
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Long-Term Results of the Etiotropic Therapy of Subcompensed Liver Cirrhosis in the Outcome of Chronic Hepatitis C by P. O. Bogomolov, A. O. Bueverov, V. E. Bakirova, E. O. Lyusina, E. A. Fedosyina, S. V. Koblov, O. V. Sumtsova

“…Two deaths were reported due to hepatocellular cancer (HCC) and bleeding from esophageal varices. …”
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Burden of psychiatric and somatic comorbidities in individuals with suicidal behavior: a nationwide Danish registry-based, observational study by Mette Reilev, Jens-Jakob Kjer Møller, Elsebeth Stenager, Erik Christiansen

“…Of those who died by suicide, 18% had co-existing mood disorders and stress disorders, while 5% had both mood disorders and cancer. An 88-fold increase of odds for attempting suicide and a 35-fold increase of odds for suicide were observed among those with the highest combined burden of somatic and psychiatric comorbidities relative to those without. …”
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Exopolysaccharides from camel milk-derived Limosilactobacillus reuteri C66: Structural characterization, bioactive and rheological properties for food applications by A.K.M. Humayun Kober, Mohamed Abdin, Athira Subhash, Shao-Quan Liu, Enes Dertli, Basim Abu-Jdayil, Pau-Loke Show, Mutamed Ayyash

“…Additionally, it reduced the viability of Caco-2 and MCF-7 cancer cells by 93.7 % and 61.4 %, respectively. EPS-C66 also demonstrated antibacterial effects against S. aureus, S. typhimurium, L. monocytogenes, and E. coli, with ranges of 5.9, 6.1, 6.0, and 5.7 log CFU/mL, respectively. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Once Weekly Selinexor-Bortezomib-Dexamethasone in Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma by Michael Dolph, Gabriel Tremblay, Adrienne M Gilligan, Hoyee Leong

“…**Background:** Despite the availability of new treatments, multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable cancer with nearly all patients relapsing and undergoing multiple lines of treatment. …”
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Diagnosis and clinical significance of prostate calcification using computed tomography by Seong Cheol Kim, Tae Young Lee, Woocheol Kang, Hoyoung Bae, Ji Hyung Yoon, Sungchan Park, Kyung Hyun Moon, Sang Hyeon Cheon, Taekmin Kwon

“…After applying exclusion criteria (prostate cancer, post-prostatectomy, indwelling urethral catheter, severe artifacts, and software errors), 4,805 patients were included in the final analysis. …”
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Harnessing Internet Search Data as a Potential Tool for Medical Diagnosis: Literature Review by Gregory J Downing, Lucas M Tramontozzi, Jackson Garcia, Emma Villanueva

“…ObjectiveWe aimed to explore the potential and challenges of using internet search data in medical diagnosis, with a specific focus on diseases and conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental and behavioral health, neurodegenerative disorders, and nutritional and metabolic diseases. …”
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Public perceptions on the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis by Jing Gao, Xinyu Chen, Xiaolian Jiang, Chenxi Wu, Huiqiong Xu, Dingxi Bai

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Identification of m6A methyltransferase-related WTAP and ZC3H13 predicts immune infiltrates in glioblastoma by Liyun Gao, Jiaxin Gao, Jiayin He, Wenyan Fan, Xiangxin Che, Xin Wang, Tao Wang, Chunhua Han

“…Immune contexture, which includes the tumor microenvironment (TME), plays a significant role in cancer progression and treatment. This study aimed to explore the potential impact between WTAP and ZC3H13 on the immunological characteristics of GBM. …”
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Analysis of clinical and pathological prognostic factors of survival in rectal adenocarcinoma treated with preoperative radiochemotherapy by Sarhan Sydney Saad, Nora Forones, Gaspar Lopes Filho, Jaques Waisberg, Elesiario Caetano Júnior, Ricardo Artigiani-Neto, Delcio Matos

“…Methods: We studied 70 patients from the Discipline of Surgical Gastroenterology at Escola Paulista de Medicina from 2000 to 2019, with rectal cancer located up to 10 cm from the anal verge and with stages II or III, submitted to preoperative RCT and curative surgery (R0) and with follow-up of at least 12 months. …”
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Oral Health Status and Anxiety Level Amongst the Borderline Security Force Personnel and Their Family Members by Deepali Agarwal, Bharathi Purohit, Upendra Singh Bhadauria, Sneha Malhotra, Manali Deb Barma, Harsh Priya

“…Oral health education topics included oral cancer screening, early detection, oral diseases, their prevention, and tobacco cessation. …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Relation to Reproductive Health Among Young Albanian Women by Alketa Zazo, Eliona Kulluri, Enxhi Vrapi

“…RESULTS: Women, participating in this study, appeared to be well-informed regarding the risk factors associated with cervical cancer, yet only 32.7% had carried out a Pap-smear test. …”
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Cost-Minimization Analysis for Subcutaneous Daratumumab in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma in Three Gulf Countries by Anas Hamad, Shereen Elazzazy, Ruba Y. Taha, Hani Osman, Sana Alblooshi, Islam Elkonaissi, Mustaqeem A. Siddiqui, Khalil Al-Farsi, Mohammed Al Lamki, Sali Emara, Gihan H. Elsisi

“…**Background:** The second most common hematologic cancer worldwide is multiple myeloma (MM), with incidence and mortality rates that have more than doubled over the past 30 years. …”
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Long-term outcomes of drainless anatomical lung resection surgery for pulmonary malignancies by Ting-Fang Kuo, Mong-Wei Lin, Ke-Cheng Chen, Shuenn-Wen Kuo, Pei-Ming Huang, Jang-Ming Lee

“…Most patients had primary lung cancer; four (7%), 43 (74%), seven (12%), and three (5%) had stage 0, I, II, and III, respectively. …”
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Tumor resting-state fMRI connectivity to extralesional brain is associated with cognitive performance in glioma patients by Chuh-Hyoun Na, Hans Clusmann, Martin Wiesmann, Kerstin Jütten, Verena Mainz

“…Deepening our understanding of FC measures at the connectomic level in the context of cancer neuroscience may aid in identifying neurophysiological correlates of cognitive impairment and in prognosticating cognitive outcome in glioma patients.…”
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Placental Vimentin Expression in Preeclampsia and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Fırat Asir, Suleyman Cemil Oglak, Tugcan Korak, Fatih Tas, Mehmet Yilmaz, Fikri Erdemci, Firat Sahin, Hayat Ayaz, Emine Zeynep Yilmaz, Gokhan Bolluk

“…Bioinformatic analysis showed that the AGE-RAGE signaling pathway and cancer-related pathways were mainly observed in Vimentin-associated pathways, which finally activate inflammatory pathways in both preeclampsia and GDM. …”
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Global trends in importance of 24-hour movement behaviors to pediatric health: implications for South Korea by Eun-Young Lee, Reyana Jayawardena, Seiyeong Park, Justin Y Jeon, Yeon-Soo Kim, Mark S. Tremblay

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