Monthly Intramuscular Neridronate for the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Results of a 6-Year Prospective Italian Study by L. Guiducci, C. Vassalle, P. Parchi, S. Maffei

“…This single-center, prospective study enrolled postmenopausal osteoporotic outpatients with gastric intolerance to BPs (based on Tuscany Region’s law GRT n. 836 20/10/2008). …”
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“A quien perturbe el orden público le caerá el rigor de las penas, hasta la de muerte”. Aproximaciones al tratamiento de la pena capital en el Río de la Plata en la década de 1820.... by María Cecilia Guerra Orozco

“…El entonces presidente de la Sala, el Presbítero José Manuel Moure, acudió a la formación de una comisión de eclesiásticos integrada por Diego León Villafañe (Jesuita), Pedro Miguel Aráoz y José Agustín Molina, para que se expresaran sobre el tema. …”
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Identification of serum metabolite biomarkers in premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: protocol for a multicentre prospective observational cohort study by Ping Zhou, Jun Chen, Ying Liu, Cheng Chen, Xin Guo, Zhangbin Yu, Jiebo Liu, Yanping Guo, Dan Dan Rao, Shengnan He, Xudong Yan, Wanxiang He, Songzhou Xu, Ruolin Zhang

“…Participants will be categorised into BPD and non-BPD groups based on their final diagnosis, and metabolite differences between these groups will be analysed. The study aims to enrol 1500 preterm infants with gestational ages <32 weeks over 3 years. …”
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Open-label dose-extending placebos for opioid use disorder: a protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial with methadone treatment by Annabelle M Belcher, Thomas O Cole, Aaron D Greenblatt, Stephen W Hoag, David H Epstein, Michael Wagner, Amy S Billing, Ebonie Massey, Kristen R Hamilton, Zofia K Kozak, Christopher J Welsh, Eric Weintraub, Emerson M Wickwire, Eric D Wish, Ted J Kaptchuk, Luana Colloca

“…Our study combines two promising clinical methodologies—conditioning/dose-extension and open-label placebo—to investigate whether placebo effects can increase the effective potency of methadone in treatment-seeking OUD patients.Methods and analysis A total of 120 newly enrolled treatment-seeking OUD patients will be randomly assigned to one of two different groups: either methadone plus daily placebo dose-extension (PDE; treatment group) or methadone/treatment as usual (control). …”
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Gender Disparities in Medical and Dental Admissions: Students' Perspectives on Barriers by Nabiha Farasat Khan, Muhammad Ilyas, Usama Saeed Usama, Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Saim, Raz Muhammad

“…In MBBS, female admissions ranged from 39.2% (n=89/227) in 2019-2020 to 30.62% (n=105/343) in 2023-2024, while female enrollment in BDS remained relatively equal, at 61.36% (n=27/44) in 2019-2020 and 52.27% (n=23/47) in 2023-2024. …”
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Modelos predictivos de lógica y lógica borrosa en índices bursátiles de América del Norte by Antonino Parisi F., Franco Parisi F.

“…Se utilizaron series históricas de cotizaciones diarias de los índices bursátiles norteamericanos DJI y Nasdaq (Estados Unidos), IPC (México) y TSE (Canadá), correspondientes al periodo comprendido entre el 8 de octubre de 1996 y el 7 de enero de 2005. Se construyó un modelo de lógica y otro de lógica difusa, para efectos de proyectar el signo de las variaciones de los índices bursátiles ya señalados. …”
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Comparing Assisted Reproductive Outcomes in Women with Different Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Phenotypes Undergoing Frozen Embryo Transfer by Anubhuti Patel, Anviti Saraf, Vyshnavi A. Rao, Kamini A. Rao

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 190 infertile women with PCOS (Rotterdam criteria) were enrolled and were subdivided into four phenotypes. …”
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Neoadjuvant programmed death ligand-1 with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for limited-stage small-cell lung cancer: a retrospective study by Zhi Yang, Yan-qing Wang, Xiujun Chang

“…Seventeen patients with LD-SCLC were enrolled in the study. Two groups were assigned for further statistical analysis: neoadjuvant chemotherapy (group C), in which only preoperative chemotherapy was administered; and neoadjuvant ICI (group I), in which surgery was combined with both preoperative ICI and chemotherapy. …”
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Factores predictores de mortalidad en infarto agudo de miocardio by Tatiana Prieto Domínguez, Vivencio Doce Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés

“…<br /><strong>Métodos:</strong> se realizó un estudio observacional, analítico, de casos y controles en pacientes ingresados con diagnóstico confirmado de infarto agudo de miocardio en el período de 1ro de enero del 2014 al 31 de diciembre del año 2015, con una muestra de 150 pacientes, 100 vivos y 50 fallecidos, seleccionados mediante un muestreo aleatorio simple. …”
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Validación psicométrica de la Escala de Premisas Histórico SocioCulturales de la Monogamia (EPHSCM) by Giovanna Escobar-Mota, Rozzana Sánchez-Aragón

“…La escala resulta ser una aportación metodológica en el área de la investigación, porque lo que la muestra mexicana cree, piensa y siente sobre la monogamia contribuye al entendimiento de cómo ciertas variables psicológicas influyen en parejas dentro de un contexto psico-socio-cultural particular como en esta muestra mexicana.…”
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Psicanálise: uma ética do desejo by Sérgio Scotti

“…O artigo explora e analisa a tese de Lacan, segundo a qual a única coisa da qual se pode ser culpado, pelo menos da perspectiva analítica, é de ter cedido de seu desejo. …”
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The Evaluation of Tau Deposition with [18F]PI-2620 by Using a Semiquantitative Method in Cognitively Normal Subjects and Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Dis... by Attapon Jantarato, Sira Vachatimanont, Natphimol Boonkawin, Sukanya Yaset, Anchisa Kunawudhi, Chetsadaporn Promteangtrong, Jintana Assanasen, Nithi Mahanonda, Chanisa Chotipanich

“…Twenty-six cognitively normal (CN) subjects, 7 patients with AD, and 36 patients with MCI were enrolled. A dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) scan was performed 30–75 min postinjection. …”
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Métodos para caracterizar epífitas vasculares en el contexto del turismo de naturaleza by Guillermo A. Reina-Rodríguez, Carol Rojas-Florez

“…Las plantas epífitas se encuentran dentro de los atractivos locales con mayor potencial de avistamiento en los trópicos. …”
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Ankyloglossia and breastfeeding self-efficacy in newborns: a birth cohort study by Carlos Alberto Feldens, Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan, Lívia Mund de Amorim, Elisa Maria Rosa de Barros Coelho, Gabriela Fernandes Kern dos Santos, Paulo Floriani Kramer

“…For every newborn with defined or suspected ankyloglossia, two newborns without ankyloglossia were co-enrolled for the study. At 14 days of the children’s lives, the mothers were interviewed at home to collect data on breastfeeding self-efficacy using the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (BSES-SF). …”
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Factors influencing reselection of village doctors in rural-oriented tuition-waived medical education program in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study by Jing Gao, Juhua Zhang, Chenlei Shi, Aiqin Fan, Peng Zhang

“…This study aims to identify the factors that influence the reselection intention and perceptions of NGVDs of RTME program in Shanghai.MethodsIn 2023, a questionnaire survey was conducted among a sample of NGVDs enrolled in the RTME program in 8 districts of Shanghai. …”
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Sex-specific alterations in creatine metabolism in cellular compartments of peripheral blood leukocytes in type 1 diabetes by Nina Alchujyan, Elena Aghajanova, Nina Movsesyan, Arthur Melkonyan, Artashes Guevorkian, Armen Andreasyan, Margarita Hovhannisyan

“…A total of 270 Armenian participants were enrolled in the study and were divided into two age groups: Group I - included children and preadolescents; and Group II - included adolescents and young adults. …”
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Investigation of the optimal platinum-based regimen in the postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy setting for early-stage resected non-small lung cancer: a Bayesian network meta-analy... by Li Zhang, Wen-Feng Fang, Yi Lv, Lan-Lan Pang, Jia-Di Gan, Yi-Hua Huang, Jun Liao, Wael Abdullah-Sultan Ali

“…Analyses were performed using R software V.4.3.1.Results 20 RCTs with a sample size of 5483 were enrolled in meta-analysis. The chemotherapy group had a significant RFS and OS advantage compared with the observation group (HR 0.67; 95% CI 0.56 to 0.81, p&lt;0.0001; HR 0.80; 95% CI, 0.73 to 0.88, p&lt;0.0001, respectively). …”
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The effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) application on airway problems in pediatric patients with subglottic stenosis who undergo balloon dilatation by Zeliha Tuncel, Şenay Göksu, Özlem Deligöz, Kemal Tolga Saracoglu, Abdulatif Albasha, Bushra M. Abdallah, Ayten Saracoglu

“…Results A total of 84 patients were enrolled in this randomized controlled trial, 81 of which received the allocated treatment and were analyzed (non-CPAP n = 41, CPAP n = 40). …”
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Controle microbiológico de formas farmacêuticas líquidas adaptadas em um hospital pediátrico de Manaus by Felipe Mota Tashiro, Adriana da Silva Carvalho, Igor Rafael dos Santos Magalhães, Karen Regina Carim da Costa Magalhães

“…Conclusão: Apenas 03 (18,75%) adaptações estavam dentro dos limites microbianos aceitáveis estabelecidos durante todo o estudo. …”
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Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of specialty outpatient versus nurse-led tel... by Jeanne Cho, Michael Hill, Corita R Grudzen, Deborah J Shim, Abigail M Schmucker, Keith S Goldfeld, Lauren Southerland, Jeffrey M Caterino, Marie-Carmelle Elie, Robert Swor, Susan E Cohen, Arum Kim, Joseph Lowy, Jennifer S Scherer, Nancy E Bael, Ellin Gafford, Joshua Lakin, Paige Barker, Angela Chmielewski, Jennifer Kapo, Audrey Tan, Rebecca Yamarik, Susan Salz, Stephen Ryan, Anne Kim, Isabel Castro, Amelia Hargrove, Laura Stuecher, Nora Daut, Juanita Booker-Vaughns, Garrett K Chan, J Nicholas Dionne-odom, Patrick Dunn, Robert Galvin, Ernest A Hopkins III, Margaret M Maguire, Neha Reddy Pidatala, Dawn Rosini, Sally Welsh, Karen Jubanyik, Ada L Rubin, Kei Ouchi, Rebecca Murray, Nicole Tang, Marie Bakitas, Abraham Brody, Caroline Blaum, Mara Flannery, Richard Tamirian, Pamela Marsack, Jennifer Bonito, Romilla Batra, Donna C Sadasivan, Eric David Isaacs, Constance L Kizzie-Gillett, William K Vaughan, Pluscedia G Williams, Angela Young-Brinn

“…This study aims to compare nurse-led telephonic case management to specialty outpatient palliative care for older adults with serious, life-limiting illness on: (1) quality of life in patients; (2) healthcare utilisation; (3) loneliness and symptom burden and (4) caregiver strain, caregiver quality of life and bereavement.Methods and analysis This is a protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel, two-arm randomised controlled trial in ED patients comparing two established models of palliative care: nurse-led telephonic case management and specialty, outpatient palliative care. We will enrol 1350 patients aged 50+ years and 675 of their caregivers across nine EDs. …”
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