Evaluating the Effectiveness of mRNA-1273.815 Against COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Adults Aged ≥ 18 Years in the United States by Amanda Wilson, Neloufar Rahai, Ekkehard Beck, Elisha Beebe, Brian Conroy, Daina Esposito, Priya Govil, Hagit Kopel, Tianyi Lu, James Mansi, Morgan A. Marks, Katherine E. Mues, Rohan Shah, Michelle Skornicki, Tianyu Sun, Astra Toyip, Mitra Yousefi, David Martin, Andre B. Araujo

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Investigation of Potential Profiles and Influencing Factors of Voice Behavior among Chinese Nurses by Shuangying Huang, Hanwen Chen, Liyan Zhang, Xianming Weng, Lingming Zhou, Xiaoqin Ma, Weiyi Wang

“…Abstract Background The nursing profession plays a vital role in the provision of healthcare services. The sustainable and high-quality development of nursing work is inseparable from the nurses' proactive voice behavior. …”
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Toward Resilient Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Care: A Qualitative Study Involving Afghan Refugee Women in Pakistan by Yasir Shafiq, Ameer Muhammad, Kantesh Kumar, Zabin Wajid Ali, Saba Noor, Zamir Hussain Suhag, Rehman Tahir, Abdullah Jan, Luca Ragazzoni, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Martina Valente

“…Findings: The study identified significant systemic barriers to accessing MNCH services, such as insufficient funding, inadequate health infrastructure, and discriminatory practices within the healthcare workforce. Additionally, community-level obstacles were prominent, including cultural and language differences, geographical isolation, and economic constraints. …”
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Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations between care providers and ageing Canadians in the community: a participatory mixed-methods study protocol by Carrie McAiney, Paul Holyoke, Heather McNeil, Justine L Giosa, Elizabeth Kalles, Nelly D Oelke, Katie Aubrecht, Olinda Habib Perez

“…These barriers are exacerbated when service providers focus on physical healthcare needs or lack the skills and confidence to talk about and/or address mental health during routine visits. …”
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Folic acid supplementation during preconception period in sub-Saharan African countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Mekuriaw Nibret Aweke, Elsa Awoke Fentie, Muluken Chanie Agimas, Lemlem Daniel Baffa, Ever Siyoum Shewarega, Aysheshim Kassahun Belew, Esmael Ali Muhammad, Berhanu Mengistu

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The results of this systematic review and meta-analysis indicated that folic acid supplementation during preconception period is significantly low among mothers in sub-Saharan African countries, despite being one of the best approaches to improve birth outcomes. Therefore, healthcare organizations, governments, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved in folic acid supplementation must collaborate on developing strategies to improve its uptake during the preconception period.…”
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Are Collagen Protons Visible with the Zero Echo Time (ZTE) Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequence: A D₂O Exchange and Freeze-Drying Study by Tan Guo, Dina Moazamian, Arya A. Suprana, Saeed Jerban, Eric Y. Chang, Yajun Ma, Michael Carl, Min Chen, Jiang Du

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Pulmonary aspiration during pregnancy or immediately postpartum in the UK: A population-based case-control study [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Ruth Tunn, Marian Knight, Alison Gooda, Nuala Lucas

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Dysfunction of Thyroid and Parathyroid After Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy in Bandarabbas Omid Radiotherapy Center by Yaghoub Ashouri Taziani, Ramie Derakhshande, Leili Darvish, Mahdieh Afkhami Ardekani, Jahanbakhsh Bagherzadeh Homaei, Parisa Rabiei, Mohammad Haghparast

“…This finding is important for both patients and healthcare providers, highlighting that HT is unlikely to be a critical factor in the management and prognosis of BC following RT.…”
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Evaluating pre-processing and deep learning methods in medical imaging: Combined effectiveness across multiple modalities by Thien B. Nguyen-Tat, Tran Quang Hung, Pham Tien Nam, Vuong M. Ngo

“…Medical imaging is critical in modern healthcare for accurately detecting and diagnosing various medical conditions. …”
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The assessment of routine health information system performance towards improvement of quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services in Ondo and... by Victoria Oladoyin, Sunday Adedini, Kayode Ijadunola, Hassan Ogunwemimo, Olubunmi Folorunso, Elizabeth Chukwu, Ugo Okoli, Anthony Adoghe, Samuel Oyeniyi, Oniyire Adetiloye, Adesegun Fatusi

“…<h4>Background</h4>Nigeria's reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health indicators have remained unsatisfactory in the face of poor-quality healthcare services. Nigeria initiated the reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent, elderly + nutrition (RMNCAEH+N) quality of care (QoC) agenda to address the challenge. …”
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Identifying characteristics of high-poverty counties in the United States with high well-being: an observational cross-sectional study by Jeph Herrin, Harlan M Krumholz, Carley Riley, Brita Roy, Anita Arora, Elizabeth Y Rula, Erica S Spatz, Kenneth Patton Kell

“…Among the six domains of well-being, basic access, which includes access to housing and healthcare, and life evaluation, which includes life satisfaction and optimism, differed the most between high-being and low-well-being counties. …”
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Social-structural barriers to primary care among sex workers: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2021) by Miriam T. H. Harris, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi, Haoxuan Zhou, Shira M. Goldenberg

“…Given limited evidence on sex workers’ broader primary healthcare access, we aimed to examine social-structural factors associated with primary care use among sex workers over 7 years. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Effectiveness of IAVchip DNA Microarray in Influenza A Diagnosis by K. T. Sultankulova, O. V. Chervyakova, N. S. Kozhabergenov, K. A. Shorayeva, V. M. Strochkov, M. B. Orynbayev, N. T. Sandybayev, A. R. Sansyzbay, A. V. Vasin

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Formononetin promotes porcine oocytes maturation and improves embryonic development by reducing oxidative stress by Na Wang, Han Yang, Yelei Chen, Hekun Wang, Chaorui Wang, Jianglin Fan, Yajie Chen, Yinghua Li, Maobi Zhu

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Impact of pharmacist-prescriber partnerships to track antibiotic prescribing in publicly funded primary care in the Cape Town metropole, South Africa: An implementation study by O Van Hecke, Y Adegoke, M Allwood, K von Pressentin, M Namane, C Butler, M Mendelson, R Coetzee

“…To assess the impact of a pharmacist-prescriber partnership to track antibiotic prescribing in publicly funded primary healthcare clinics in the Cape Town metropole, SA. …”
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UK medical students’ mental health and their intention to drop out: a longitudinal study by Asta Medisauskaite, Antonia Rich, Milou Silkens, Neha Lagisetty

“…Objective The attrition of medical students is an incredibly important problem feeding into healthcare workforce issues. This study seeks to explore the relationships between various mental health issues and dropout.Design This is a longitudinal study where medical students completed an online questionnaire between November 2020 and February 2021 and those who took part were invited (February–May 2021) to complete the questionnaire again 3 months later.Settings Students from nine geographically spread medical schools in the UK took part in this study.Participants 792 (71.16%) participants filled in the baseline questionnaire and 407 (51.39%) of these students completed the follow-up survey (385 participants were lost to follow-up).Outcome measures Dropout intentions.Exposures Various mental ill-health symptoms using validated scales: emotional exhaustion, insomnia, somatisation, hazardous drinking, anxiety/depression, anorexia tendencies, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), paranoia and bipolar.Results A large number of students met the criteria for mental health disorders (eg, 54.1% insomnia, 37.9% anxiety/depression, 19.4% paranoia) and 19.4% (79) said that they considered dropping out from medical school. …”
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Antimicrobials profiling, biofilm formation, and clonal lineage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from cockroaches by Yasin Saberi, Mehrdad Halaji, Mohsen Karami, Jalal Jafarzadeh, Kasra Javadi, Hoda Shirafkan, Abazar Pournajaf

“…Understanding the role of cockroaches as vectors of drug-resistant S. aureus can contribute to developing more effective infection control strategies in healthcare settings. This study examined 386 cockroaches, including 230 American and 156 German cockroaches. …”
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Development of a novel instrument to measure Japanese psychiatric nurses’ technological competency as caring in nursing by Yoshiyuki Takashima, Hirokazu Ito, Gil P. Soriano, Yuko Yasuhara, Kyoko Osaka, Savina Schoenhofer, Tetsuya Tanioka

“…Background: To effectively advance person-centered care (PCC) practice, it is important to equip healthcare providers with person-centered values and beliefs while simultaneously transforming their work environment to align with PCC. …”
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Prevalence of depression symptoms and its influencing factors among pregnant women in late pregnancy in urban areas of Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China: a cross-sectional study by Huilan Xu, Zhao Hu, Xidi Zhu, Baohua Zheng, Yunhan Yu, Wensu Zhou, Shilin Yin

“…To prevent mental disorders of pregnant women, early screening for mental disorders, promotion of healthy lifestyles, mental healthcare during pregnancy and improved family and social support should be implemented during pregnancy nursing.…”
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Cloud-edge hybrid deep learning framework for scalable IoT resource optimization by Umesh Kumar Lilhore, Sarita Simaiya, Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Anjani Kumar Rai, S. M. Padmaja, Khan Vajid Nabilal, Vimal Kumar, Roobaea Alroobaea, Hamed Alsufyani

“…This method improves numerous IoT applications, including smart cities, industrial automation, and healthcare. The hybrid DQN-PPO-GNN-RL model addresses bottlenecks by dynamically managing computing and network resources, allowing for efficient operations in low-latency, high-demand environments such as autonomous systems, sensor networks, and real-time monitoring. …”
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