Assisting Hearing and Physically Impaired Students in Navigating Immersive Virtual Reality for Library Orientation by Pakinee Ariya, Yakannut Yensathit, Phimphakan Thongthip, Kannikar Intawong, Kitti Puritat

“…The research methodology employs an iterative development process, incorporating feedback from library staff, disability support services, and students to ensure usability and accessibility. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of NAFLD in youths and young adults aged 15–39 years, 1990–2021, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2035: a systematic analysis... by Jiong Wang, Jiqing Du, Minxiu Wang, Mengyun Jin, Zhihua Tang, Yuqin Mao

“…Utilizing data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 study, this study assessed the burden and trends of NAFLD in youths and young adults aged 15–39 from 1990 to 2021 and extracted data from this study on the incidence, prevalence, death, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) rates of NAFLD. …”
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Managing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Canadian Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline by Darcy D Marciniuk, Donna Goodridge, Paul Hernandez, Graeme Rocker, Meyer Balter, Pat Bailey, Gordon Ford, Jean Bourbeau, Denis E O’Donnell, Francois Maltais, Richard A Mularski, Andrew J Cave, Irvin Mayers, Vicki Kennedy, Thomas K Oliver, Candice Brown, Canadian Thoracic Society COPD Committee Dyspnea Expert Working Group

“…Dyspnea is a cardinal symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and its severity and magnitude increases as the disease progresses, leading to significant disability and a negative effect on quality of life. …”
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Prenatal Diagnosis of Rare Familial Unbalanced Translocation of Chromosomes 7 and 12 by Berrin Tezcan, Foteini Emmanouella Bredaki

“…Partner’s brother had an unbalanced form of the translocation with severe learning disability. The diagnosis of the anomaly was based on two- and three-dimensional ultrasound and microarray analysis. …”
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Designing and developing a prescription digital therapeutic for at-home heart rate variability biofeedback to support and enhance patient outcomes in post-traumatic stress disorder... by Rebecca Macy, Flavio Somanji, Flavio Somanji, Oleksandr Sverdlov

“…Widespread access to HRV-BFB could potentially reduce the distress, disability, and healthcare burden associated with PTSD. …”
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Peutz–Jeghers syndrome: review of the literature and clinical case presentation by V. O. Kaybysheva, V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. K. Baranskaya, O. S. Shifrin, K. V. Pyurveyeva, A. Ye. Leonovich, O. A. Sklyanskaya, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Recurrent bleedings from polyps and intestinal obstruction became the cause of four extensive resections of the small and large intestine that resulted in development of short bowel syndrome and disability of the patient.Conclusion. Now there is no pathogenically proved treatment of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. …”
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Literature review of spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage: risk factors, diagnostic features, and complications (Part I) by J. Grigaitė, G. Rutkauskaitė, L. Piliponis, J. Ščerbak, D. Jatužis, J. Valaikienė

“… Ruptured cerebral aneurysm-induced subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is a common cause of disability and death in middle-aged people. SAH is more common in females than males, among non-white ethnicity, and is most commonly diagnosed in Finland and Japan. …”
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A Targeted Approach to Evaluating the Golfing Athlete with Low Back Pain: A Resident’s Case Report by Luke Deckard

“…His outcome measures also improved, including the revised Oswestry Disability index from 26% disabled to 10%, the Fear Avoidance Behavior Questionnaire (FABQ) Work from 10/42 to 3/42, and the FABQ Physical Activity from 19/24 to 6/24…”
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Basic Medical Emergency Treatment for Maxillofacial Injuries by Ilirian Lenjani, Fatime Lenjani, Mentor Mustafa, Agron Dogjani, Basri Lenjani

“…These modifications often incorporate DRSABCDE, a comprehensive evaluation that includes airway clearance with C-spine control, breathing, ventilation, oxygenation, circulation, disability-neurologic status, exposure-environment, and body temperature. …”
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FDA-approved kinase inhibitors: a promising therapeutic avenue for traumatic brain injury by Dezhu Gao, Yu Shi, Zhiliang Wang, Weiming Liu

“…Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex disease that leads to significant mortality and disability worldwide each year. TBI disrupts the normal activity of kinases and molecular signaling pathways, but the effective therapeutic methods for patients remain limited. …”
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Automatic Segmentation of Ischemic Stroke Lesions in CT Perfusion Maps Using Deep Learning Networks by Lida Zare Lahijan, Saeed Meshgini, Reza Afrouzian

“…Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the largest cause of acquired disability worldwide. Classification of stroke lesions is vital in recovery, diagnosis, outcome assessment, and treatment planning. …”
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Experience with and attitude toward clozapine use among patients receiving clozapine on long term and their caregivers by Sandeep Grover, Chandrima Naskar, Subho Chakrabarti

“…The positive experiences were associated clinical and functional improvement, lower disability, and improvement in functioning as well as the self-reported perceived improvement by the patient and caregiver. …”
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Short bowel syndrome: pathogenesis, clinical presentation and treatment by Anna F. Sheptulina, O. Z. Okhlobystina, O. S. Shifrin

“…SBS prophylaxis is feasible and, taking into account of high disability and mortality rates of such patients, is essential both at preoperative stage, and during surgical intervention. …”
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MRI and the Critical Care Patient: Clinical, Operational, and Financial Challenges by Barbara McLean, Douglas Thompson

“…The delay in obtaining imaging can negatively impact the patient’s treatment plan and affect long-term outcomes as increased disability or mortality. Disruption of ICU therapy can decrease respiratory function after the patient returns from transport. …”
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Coping and Beliefs as Predictors of Functioning and Psychological Adjustment in Fibromyalgia Subgroups by Laura Rubio Fidel, Azucena García-Palacios, Rocío Herrero, Guadalupe Molinari, Carlos Suso-Ribera

“…They generally embraced less adaptive beliefs (i.e., disability, harm, emotion, and requests) and coping strategies (i.e., guarding, resting, and asking for assistance). …”
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Sense of Coherence in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Randi Opheim, May Solveig Fagermoen, Lars-Petter Jelsness-Jørgensen, Tomm Bernklev, Bjørn Moum

“…Longitudinal studies are warranted to investigate the value of SOC as a predictor of disability, medication adherence, coping behavior, and health-related quality of life.…”
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Social support for families raising children with autism spectrum disorders by Danutė Klokmanienė, Loreta Klokmanienė, Audronė Rimkuvienė

“…The research data show that after the child’s diagnosis, families received various social support; they were provided with the child’s disability and care money, sanatorium treatment, speech therapist services, special kindergarten education services, and psychologist services. …”

Effect of intervertebral foramen area and width on postoperative pain relief in patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy by Shuang Liu, Peng Pu, Qing Xiang, Jie Chen, Guangye Wang, Xiangling Pu

“…We compared various parameters, including age, sex, body mass index (BMI), duration of symptoms, preoperative Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) score, Neck Disability Index (NDI) score, postoperative ratio of disc space distraction, preoperative width of the intervertebral foramen (WIVF), and area of the intervertebral foramen (AIVF) between the two groups. …”
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Metformin and Fibrosis: A Review of Existing Evidence and Mechanisms by Maoyan Wu, Huiwen Xu, Jingyu Liu, Xiaozhen Tan, Shengrong Wan, Man Guo, Yang Long, Yong Xu

“…Fibrosis in the lung, kidney, and liver accounts for a substantial proportion of the global burden of disability and mortality. To date, there are no effective therapeutic strategies for controlling fibrosis. …”
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Common variants in left/right asymmetry genes and pathways are associated with relative hand skill. by William M Brandler, Andrew P Morris, David M Evans, Thomas S Scerri, John P Kemp, Nicholas J Timpson, Beate St Pourcain, George Davey Smith, Susan M Ring, John Stein, Anthony P Monaco, Joel B Talcott, Simon E Fisher, Caleb Webber, Silvia Paracchini

“…We report a genome-wide association study meta-analysis for a quantitative measure of relative hand skill in individuals with dyslexia [reading disability (RD)] (n = 728). The most strongly associated variant, rs7182874 (P = 8.68 × 10(-9)), is located in PCSK6, further supporting an association we previously reported. …”
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