Scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment for HIV: lessons from a key populations program in Nigeria by Abdulsamad Salihu, Ibrahim Jahun, David Olusegun Oyedeji, Wole Fajemisin, Omokhudu Idogho, Samira Shehu, Aminu Yakubu, Jennifer Anyanti

“…President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched an ambitious initiative—the Key Population Investment Fund (KPIF)—to target the unaddressed HIV-related needs of key populations (KPs) who are disproportionately affected by HIV. …”
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Partnering with Palliative Care: A Case Report of Severe Pain in Critical Limb Ischemia Treated Successfully with a Continuous Popliteal Nerve Catheter by Ryan S. D’Souza, Stephanie Shen, Frederick Ojukwu, Halena M. Gazelka, Bridget P. Pulos

“…The patient experienced immediate relief while transitioning to comfort care. Conclusion. …”
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Exploring caregiver experiences and support needs in end-of-life care for people living with HIV: A scoping review protocol. by Kristina M Kokorelias, Andrew D Eaton, Marina Wasilewski, Tyler Redublo, Luxey Sirisegaram

“…<h4>Background and objectives</h4>End-of-life care supports individuals in the last few weeks or months of their life and their caregivers, offering psychosocial support, symptom management and relief, and resources. While some of the first public end-of-life care facilities were established due to HIV/AIDS, the current needs of caregivers for people living with end-stage HIV are not well understood. …”
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Metallothionein II treatment mitigates rotenone-induced neurodegeneration in zebrafish models of Parkinson’s disease by Yong Hui Nies, Wei Ling Lim, Norwahidah Abd Karim, Mohamad Fairuz Yahaya, Seong Lin Teoh

“…Current therapies offer symptomatic relief but fail to halt disease progression, highlighting the need for novel therapeutic strategies. …”
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Reasons for Delay in Seeking Care for Tuberculosis, Republic of Armenia, 2006–2007 by Dana Schneider, Scott J. N. McNabb, Marina Safaryan, Vladimir Davidyants, Ludmila Niazyan, Sona Orbelyan

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Prediction of Adhesively Bonded Polyurethane-to-Steel Double Butt Joint Failure Using Uncertainty Analysis by Xiaofu Li, Chuanpeng Ji, Zhi Zhang, Shiwei Zhang, Hongqin Liu, Shulin Wang

“…Adhesively bonded joint has gained increasing popularity due to weight reduction and relief of stress concentration. However, damage in the mode of adhesive failure and cohesive failure, as well as the adherend failure, could still occur, and it has been realized that the reliability of the adhesively bonded joint depends on numerous complex and even nonlinearly interacting factors. …”
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Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells Overexpressing Heme Oxygenase-1 Promotes Symptoms Recovery in Cystitis Rats by Alleviating Neuroinflammation by Qiongqiong Gao, Zhentao Gao, Minzhi Su, Yong Huang, Chi Zhang, Cuiping Li, Hailun Zhan, Bolong Liu, Xiangfu Zhou

“…Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) seriously reduces the patient’s quality of life, yet current therapies only provide partial relief. In the spinal dorsal horn (SDH), neuroinflammation plays a pivotal role in the development of IC. …”
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Percutaneous Vertebroplasty under Local Anesthesia for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: A Prospective Interventional Study by Dhruv Gupta, Varun Kumar Agarwal

“…PVP not only helps in pain relief but also the correction of spinal deformity with least postoperative morbidity. …”
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Open-Label Fosmetpantotenate, a Phosphopantothenate Replacement Therapy in a Single Patient with Atypical PKAN by Yiolanda-Panayiota Christou, George A. Tanteles, Elena Kkolou, Annita Ormiston, Kostas Konstantopoulos, Maria Beconi, Randall D. Marshall, Horacio Plotkin, Kleopas A. Kleopa

“…Current therapeutic strategies rely on symptomatic relief. We describe the treatment of the first, later-onset PKAN patient with oral fosmetpantotenate (previously known as RE-024), a novel replacement therapy developed to bypass the enzymatic defect. …”
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Current Pharmacological Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by Yao-Kuang Wang, Wen-Hung Hsu, Sophie S. W. Wang, Chien-Yu Lu, Fu-Chen Kuo, Yu-Chung Su, Sheau-Fang Yang, Chiao-Yun Chen, Deng-Chyang Wu, Chao-Hung Kuo

“…Although proton pump inhibitor is the most potent acid suppressant and provides good efficacy in esophagitis healing and symptom relief, about one-third of patients with GERD still have persistent symptoms with poor response to standard dose PPI. …”
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A Method for Rapidly Determining the Seismic Performance of Buildings Based on Remote-Sensing Imagery and Its Application by Sihan Yu, Xiaofeng Xie, Peng Du, Xiaoqing Wang, Shun Yang, Chao Liu

“…This method can satisfy the real-world need for rapidly assessing the SP and distribution of buildings in a region before an earthquake occurs and provide a reliable reference for disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief efforts.…”
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Flow-diverter stents alone and in combination with coiling as treatment options for unruptured, symptomatic true PcomA aneurysms by S. Matanov, K. Ninov, K. Minkin, K. Sirakova, G. Vladev, S. Sirakov, A. Sirakov

“…Conclusion: FD stents, used alone or with coiling, are promising for treating symptomatic, unruptured true PcomA aneurysms, showing high occlusion rates, safety, and symptom relief. Despite the study’s retrospective design and small cohort, findings highlight the potential of this approach, warranting larger multicenter studies.…”
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Quantum-mechanical model of ion thruster for small spacecraft by V. V. Fedyanin, V. V. Shalay, V. K. Fedorov

“…A mathematical description of the relief of thin films is given using the resulting wave function. …”
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Recovery process of patients with iliac vein compression syndrome after stenting: a grounded theory study by Yi-Yun Zeng, Wen-Ling Chen, Jimmy Wei Hwa Tan, Shih-Chun Lin, Kuan-Yi Yen, Fan-Hao Chou, Peta-Anne Zimmerman

“…Although iliac vein stenting provides symptomatic relief, the recovery process is protracted and fraught with challenges such as in-stent restenosis and psychological distress. …”
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Efficacy of an Intrathecal Multidrug Infusion for Pain Control in Older Adults and in End-Stage Malignancies: A Report of Three Cases by Sadegh Abdolmohammadi, Pierre-Olivier Hétu, Andrée Néron, Gilbert Blaise

“…IT infusion with a low-concentration multidrug mixture could be considered as an alternative modality for intractable pain relief in older adults or in malignancies.…”
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Low-Level Laser Therapy for Temporomandibular Disorders: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis by Gang-Zhu Xu, Jie Jia, Lin Jin, Jia-Heng Li, Zhan-Yue Wang, Dong-Yuan Cao

“…Combining data from all clinically heterogeneous studies revealed positive effects of LLLT on pain relief, regardless of the visual analogue scale (VAS) score or the change of VAS score between the baseline and the final follow-up time point, while dosage analyses showed discrepant results about the effects of high or low doses for patients with TMD. …”
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An In Vitro and In Vivo Comparison of Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells by Jamie Mollentze, Chrisna Durandt, Michael S. Pepper

“…Clinically acceptable protocols could be developed in which MSCs are used to aid in bone regeneration providing relief for patients with chronic pain. The aim of this review is to examine the differences between studies conducted in vitro and in vivo with regard to the osteogenic process to better define the gaps in current osteogenic research. …”
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Dealing with hydrologic data scarcity: the case of the Tindouf basin by Gonçalvès, Julio, Nutz, Alexis, Séraphin, Pierre, Chekireb, Amine, Kabiri, Lahcen, Deschamps, Pierre

“…Exploratory sketches of the piezometric contours for the main aquifers of the TAS identified (i) recharge areas on the Anti-Atlas relief and the Hamada plateau, (ii) and discharge areas mainly located in the southeastern region where countless salt pans associated with groundwater evaporation were observed. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Selected Physical Factors on the Level of Pain in the Course of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders by Łukasz Kopacz, Żaneta Ciosek, Helena Gronwald, Piotr Skomro, Roman Ardan, Danuta Lietz-Kijak

“…Conclusions based on the results of our own research indicate that the selected methods of treatment demonstrate an analgesic effect in terms of the overall discomfort in the course of TMD, and that they may be an alternative pain relief thereby reducing the patient’s intake of painkillers.…”
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Solitary fibular metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma with gene mutation: a case report by Jiechen Chen, Ahmad Alkhatatbeh, Yinbing Lin, Xiaolin Lu, Bin Chen, Hongjiang Chen, Xiaohui Lu, Hansheng Wu, Jun Hu

“…The patient experienced complete pain relief and showed no recurrence or metastasis over a 26-month follow-up. …”
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