Rural-Urban Differences in Health Care Expenditures: Empirical Data from US Households by Wei-Chen Lee, Luohua Jiang, Charles D. Phillips, Robert L. Ohsfeldt

“…However, rurality does have important effects on those who make the most use of outpatient care and prescription medications. …”
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Early and late outcomes of emergency coronary bypass grafting in non-ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction by Nguyen Thai Minh, Nguyen Sinh Hien, Bui The Dung, Doan Quoc Hung

“…The study conducted a retrospective analysis on 89 patients who experienced non-ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction and underwent emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery at Hanoi Heart Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2022. …”
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Soviet Diplomatic Efforts to Prevent Hungary’s Alignment with Germany in World War II (1939– 1941) by V. F. Pryakhin

“…This dual approach aligned with the policies of Hitler's Western appeasers, who aimed to redirect German expansion eastward. …”
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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

“…We described the successful use of a continuous local anesthetic infusion via a popliteal nerve catheter to control severe refractory ischemic lower limb pain in a patient who failed surgical intervention and performed a brief narrative literature review on regional anesthesia for ischemic pain. …”
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Proton Pump Inhibitor-Induced Galactorrhea in a Kidney Transplant Recipient: A Friend or Foe? by Marios Prikis, Julie MacDougall, Nina Narasimhadevara

“…We present a case of a female kidney transplant recipient with worsening allograft function who presented with sudden galactorrhea and hyperprolactinemia while on a high-dose omeprazole for gastroesophageal reflux disease.…”
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Inflation Pressure in Side Branch during Modified Jailed Balloon Technique Does Not Affect Side Branch Outcomes by Tetsuya Nomura, Naotoshi Wada, Issei Ota, Satoshi Tasaka, Kenshi Ono, Yu Sakaue

“…We analyzed 51 consecutive patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for bifurcated lesions with a modified jailed balloon technique between September 2018 and December 2020. …”
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Exploring the operator experience in automated shuttles: Fatigue, attention, and gaze behaviour by Christer Ahlström, My Weidel, Anna Sjörs Dahlman, Ashleigh Filtness, Anna Anund

“…Operators paid less attention to their surroundings than would be expected (21% not looking left, 38% not looking right, 58% not looking to the rear of the vehicle, in situations where this would have been appropriate).The results are important for safety operators and their employers, highlighting the shared responsibility of having well-prepared and well-rested operators who are fit to effectively monitor the automated shuttle for an entire driving period. …”
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Frequency and Associated Factors of Post-dural Puncture Headache at a Tertiary Care Hospital of Southern Punjab, Pakistan by Maria Jabeen, Sohaib Hassan, Aneeqa Saad, Sohail Safdar

“…Procedure-related data, including position of the patient (sitting, lateral), type of the LP needle (traumatic, atraumatic), needle size (22G or 20G), number of attempts and the years of experience of operator who performed lumbar puncture was obtained. Results: Of 173 study cases, 43.3% were male and an overall mean age was 40.92±10.07 years (range; 24-60 years). …”
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Cardioembolic but Not Other Stroke Subtypes Predict Mortality Independent of Stroke Severity at Presentation by Latha Ganti Stead, Rachel M. Gilmore, M. Fernanda Bellolio, Anunaya Jain, Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Wyatt W. Decker, Dipti Agarwal, Robert D. Brown

“…The study population consisted of 500 patients who resided in the local county or the surrounding nine-county area. …”
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Acute Pain Burden and Opioid Dose Requirements after Cesarean Delivery in Parturients with Preexisting Chronic Back Pain and Migraine by Ryu Komatsu, Michael G. Nash, Kenneth C. Ruth, William Harbour, Taylor M. Ziga, Shane Mandalia, Emily M. Dinges, Davin Singh, Hani El-Omrani, Joseph Reno, Brendan Carvalho, Laurent A. Bollag

“…., migraine, chronic back pain, and the combination of migraine + chronic back pain), who underwent cesarean delivery. The effects of the three chronic pain conditions on time-weighted average (TWA) pain score (primary outcome) and opioid dose requirements in morphine milligram equivalents (MME) during postoperative 48 hours were compared. …”
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Single treatment selective laser trabeculoplasty in a Southern African resource-constrained context by Emma J. Pons, Jonathan J. Pons, Elly S. Grossman, Daniel Louw, Merle Werbeloff

“…Methods: A retrospective case series of consecutive patients who received SLT between 01 January 2017 and 31 December 2018 was conducted. …”
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Comparisons of Esophageal Function Tests between Chinese and British Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by Feng Gao, Samantha Leach, Jian Yu Hao, Zhan Min Shang, Anthony Robert Hobson

“…Chinese healthy volunteers who undertook HRiM were also selected as control group. …”
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Laparotomy for Advanced Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy by Dereje Tegene, Sultan Nesha, Befikadu Gizaw, Tadele Befikadu

“…This is a 26-year-old primigravida lady who does not recall her first day of last normal menstrual period (LNMP) but claimed to be amenorrhic for the past 9 months. …”
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Multiple Levels of Letter Representation in Written Spelling: Evidence From a Single Case of Dysgraphia with Multiple Deficits by Marie-Pierre de Partz, Aliette Lochy, Agnesa Pillon

“…In this paper, we report a detailed analysis of the impaired performance of a dysgraphic individual, AD, who produced similar rates of letter-level errors in written spelling, oral spelling, and typing. …”
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A rare case of temporal arteritis in a young Indian male by Debaditya Roy, Susmita Rakshit, Azeez Pasha, Abhishek Patil

“…It is exceedingly rare in patients who are below 50 years of age with only a few patients reported over the past few decades. …”
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IMPLEMENTASI KONSEP TUJUAN HIDUP DAN MASYARAKAT SEBAGAI OBJEK KAJIAN DALAM FILSAFAT DARI PEMIKIRAN FILOSOF MUSLIM DI SDN 1 CIWALEN GARUT by Acep Heris Hermawan, Gina Aria Sonia, Tatang Muh Nasir, Leti Latifah, Laelatul Nuroh

“…Meanwhile, society is also the object of study because humans are social creatures who cannot live alone. This study aims to analyze the implementation of the concept of the purpose of life and society as objects of study in the Philosophy of Islamic Education from the thoughts of Muslim philosophers as well as the conceptual implementation of the object of study in the curriculum with various philosophical approaches, namely synopsis, normative and inductive. …”
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Associations of sleep quality and fall risk among older adult outpatients at Thai Binh Medical University Hospital, Northern Vietnam by Nguyen The Diep, Doan Anh Tuan, Tien Van Nguyen, Hoang Minh Anh, Dao Huy Cu

“…This study aimed to determine the correlation between sleep quality and fall risk among the elderly, providing knowledge for fall prevention in this population in Vietnam.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted on 404 elderly patients who visited and were treated as outpatients at Thai Binh University Hospital from October 2023 to June 2024. …”
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Treating self-harm behaviors in prisons: implementation of the STEPPS program by Rosa Lorente-Català, Irene Jaén, Xavier Buscà-Huertas, Berta Framis, Azucena García-Palacios

“…Twenty-four professionals who implemented the STEPPS program completed satisfaction, normalization process, burnout, acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility measures. …”
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Spontaneous Ruptured Pyomyoma in a Nulligravid Female: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by S. Read, J. Mullins

“…Our patient is a 24-year-old nulligravid female who presented with a surgical abdomen, fever, hypotension, and leukocytosis. …”
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Lactoferrin: a secret weapon in the war against pathogenic bacteria by Lucero Ruiz-Mazón, Gerardo Ramírez-Rico, Mireya de la Garza

“…In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that antimicrobial resistance causes at least 700,000 deaths per year worldwide. …”
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