Montelukast Use and Patterns of Ambulatory Care among Asian versus Non-Asian Adult Patients with Asthma and/or Allergic Rhinitis in the United States by Joseph Vasey, Shalini Bagga, Huan Huang, Tongsheng Wang, David Thompson

“…**Background:** Asthma and allergic rhinitis (AR) are inflammatory conditions that are similar in pathophysiology. Mild-to-moderate persistent asthma has been widely treated with inhaled corticosteroids, while allergic rhinitis is commonly treated with antihistamines, nasal corticosteroids, anticholinergics, and other allergy specific medications. …”
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Comparison of Long-Term Antibody Titers in Calves Treated with Different Conjunctival and Subcutaneous <i>Brucella abortus</i> S19 Vaccines by Ali Uslu, Zafer Sayın, Aslı Balevi, Yasin Gulcu, Fırat Ergen, Islam Akıner, Oguzhan Denizli, Osman Erganis

“…Although some countries around the world have achieved this circumstance, every country aims to become free of Brucellosis through vaccination, animal movements, and various eradication measures. …”
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Tuberculosis vaccines and therapeutic drug: challenges and future directions by Yajing An, Ruizi Ni, Li Zhuang, Ling Yang, Zhaoyang Ye, Linsheng Li, Seppo Parkkila, Ashok Aspatwar, Wenping Gong

“…Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) remains a prominent global health challenge, with the World Health Organization documenting over 1 million annual fatalities. …”
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Tocilizumab, an Exploratory Treatment for Severe COVID-19 Patients by Yong Wang, Yongfeng Chen, Xiangdong Zhou

“…Tocilizumab (TCZ), a monoclonal antibody that targets the interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor, was approved as an alternative treatment for severe COVID-19 patients despite limited real-world clinical data in China. In the present study, we will discuss and evaluate the treatment response of TCZ therapy in patients with COVID-19. …”
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Epidemiology of tularemia in the countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO): A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Mohammad Sholeh, Safoura Moradkasani, Saber Esmaeili

“…<h4>Background</h4>Francisella tularensis, the bacterium that causes tularemia, has been a persistent and widespread pathogen in various regions of the world for centuries. …”
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Comparison of treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis patients with biological agents and JAK-STAT inhibitors. An extension study by Małgorzata Wisłowska

“…Introduction This study compared treatment with biologic agents and Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi) in combination with methotrexate (MTX) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a real-world setting at a large center in Poland. There is a persistent shortage of such studies, and illustrating the switching of medications in search of a suitable way of treatment for a given patient is a crucial step towards future personalized therapy. …”
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Beyond Text Generation: Assessing Large Language Models’ Ability to Reason Logically and Follow Strict Rules by Zhiyong Han, Fortunato Battaglia, Kush Mansuria, Yoav Heyman, Stanley R. Terlecky

“…Additionally, we test their ability to implicitly recognize and avoid HIPAA privacy rule violations as an example of a real-world scenario. Our findings reveal that LLMs show a persistent lack of logical reasoning and systematically fail to follow puzzle rules. …”
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Best practices in the management of thyroid dysfunction induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors by Ichiro Yamauchi, Daisuke Yabe

“…The incidence of overt thyroid irAEs was in the range of 8.9–22.2% in real-world settings, typically triggered by antibodies against PD-1 and PD-L1 and rarely by anti-CTLA-4 antibodies alone. …”
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Nipah Virus: A Zoonotic Threat Re-Emerging in the Wake of Global Public Health Challenges by Francesco Branda, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Marta Giovanetti, Mattia Albanese, Erica Binetti, Massimo Ciccozzi, Fabio Scarpa

“…The re-emergence of the Nipah virus (NiV) in Kerala, India, following the tragic death of a 14-year-old boy, underscores the persistent threat posed by zoonotic pathogens and highlights the growing global public health challenge. …”
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Delphi consensus methodology to gauge expert perspectives on smoking prevention, cessation and harm reduction in Italy by Pasquale Caponnetto, Pasquale Caponnetto, Vincenzo Contursi, Francesco Fedele, Fabio Lugoboni, Salvatore Novo

“…The results emphasized the persistent national health threat posed by tobacco smoking in Italy, with a smoking prevalence of 20–24% between 2007 and 2022. …”
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Towards health justice: Implementing structural competency in women’s healthcare education by Daina Charnelle Fougang, Charles Mpofu, Dianne Wepa

“…Introduction: The World Health Organization advocates for preparing medical students to address health disparities experienced by minority groups. …”
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia in a Young Boy following Mumps Infection: A Case Report by Jayakanthan Saravanan, AP Krithika, M Geetha

“…However, the boy continued to experience persistent high-grade fever even after the parotitis improved. …”
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New Development Bank as Aid Donor to School Education by Rodion Sadykov, Yevgeny Uchaev

“…First, the established division of labor between “old” multilateral development banks (e.g., World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank) and “new” institutions (e.g., NDB, AIIB) has positioned the former to prioritize social sector investments while the latter address deficits in infrastructure financing. …”
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Implementation of an information system for tuberculosis in healthcare facilities in Indonesia: evaluation of its effectiveness and challenges by Rita Dian Pratiwi, Bachti Alisjahbana, Yanri Wijayanti Subronto, Sigit Priyanta, Suharna Suharna

“…Results The evaluation indicated that user convenience and timeliness require improvement, as well as the match between the system and the real world and error prevention, as shown in the heuristic evaluation of the SITB user interface. …”
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Form and functioning: contextualising the start of the Global Financing Facility policy processes in Burkina Faso by Joël Arthur Kiendrébéogo, Orokia Sory, Issa Kaboré, Yamba Kafando, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Asha S. George

“…Background Burkina Faso joined the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) in 2017 to address persistent gaps in funding for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N). …”
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Childhood socioeconomic background and elevated mortality among the young adult second generation in Sweden: a population-based cohort study by Lisa Harber-Aschan, Matthew Wallace, Ben Wilson, Eleonora Mussino, Siddartha Aradhya

“…Introduction The native-born children of migrants represent one of the fastest-growing and most diverse young populations in the world today. A growing body of research highlights an elevated young adult mortality risk in this ‘second generation’ (G2) relative to the majority population at the same ages. …”
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MTIOT: Identifying HPV subtypes from multiple infection data by Qi Zhao, Tianjun Zhou, Lin Li, Guofan Hong, Luonan Chen

“…Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) is a major cause of cervical cancer. …”
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Hook, line, and social media: crowd-sourced images reveal size and species patterns of ocean sunfishes (Tetraodontiformes, Molidae) from California to Alaska by Tor Mowatt-Larssen, Tierney M. Thys, Jackie Hildering, Eric J. Caldera, Ellen E. Biesack, Jan R. McDowell, Marianne Nyegaard, Marianne Nyegaard

“…Taxonomic confusion and limited data have impeded species-level biogeographic analyses of the world’s largest bony fishes, ocean sunfishes (Molidae; ‘molids’), in many ecosystems. …”
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Reorganization of Anatomical Connectome following Electroconvulsive Therapy in Major Depressive Disorder by Jinkun Zeng, Qinghua Luo, Lian Du, Wei Liao, Yongmei Li, Haixia Liu, Dan Liu, Yixiao Fu, Haitang Qiu, Xirong Li, Tian Qiu, Huaqing Meng

“…Our investigation revealed three main findings: (1) the small-worldness was persistent after ECT series; (2) anatomical connections changes were found in limbic structure, temporal and frontal lobes, in which the connection changes between amygdala and parahippocampus correlate with depressive symptom reduction; (3) significant nodal strength changes were found in right paralimbic network. …”
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Does Context Matter? Governance Models in Local Administration by Stefanie Vedder, Benjamin Friedländer, Simon Bogumil-Uçan, Tanja Klenk

“… Purpose: Over the past decades, public administration scholars and practitioners around the world have experimented with various administrative reforms to design governance models suitable to fulfil the tasks of public administration. …”
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