Effectiveness of women-led community interventions in improving tuberculosis preventive treatment in children: results from a comparative, before–after study in Ethiopia by Jacob Creswell, Degu Jerene, Ahmed Bedru, Dawit Assefa, Kalkidan Tesfaye, Samuel Bayu, Samuel Seid, Fikirte Aberra, Amera Khan

“…Objectives Our objective was to evaluate the impact of a service delivery model led by membership-based associations called Iddirs formed by women on tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) initiation and completion rates among children.Design Comparative, before-and-after study design.Setting Three intervention and two control districts in Ethiopia.Participants Children who had a history of close contact with adults with infectious forms of tuberculosis (TB). …”
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Oral Findings, Salivary Copper, Magnesium, and Leptin in Type II Diabetic Patients in Relation to Oral Candida Species by Mohammed Jasim Mohammed, Abbas S. Al-mizraqchi, Salah M. Ibrahim

“…Forty-five type II diabetic patients in the study included participants between 40 and 60 years old, with a minimum duration of one year, as well as 45 healthy control subjects who were matched in terms of age and sex, and had no underlying systemic diseases. …”
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Stemness-related gene signatures as a predictive tool for breast cancer radiosensitivity by Jinzhi Lai, Rongfu Huang, Jingshan Huang

“…This study developed a stemness-based signature to identify BRCA patients who are likely to benefit from radiotherapy.MethodsGene expression data for BRCA patients were obtained from the TCGA and METABRIC databases, including 920 TCGA-BRCA and 1980 METABRIC-BRCA patients. …”
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Exploring the Role of Radiosurgery for Atypical Meningiomas: Addressing Suboptimal Local Control in High-Risk Patients by Sanjeev Sreenivasan, MD, MCh, Salem Najjar, BA, Daniel Ma, MD, Sabrina L. Begley, BS, Yen-Ruh Wuu, MD, Zaker Rana, MD, Emile Gogineni, DO, Michael Schulder, MD, Anuj Goenka, MD

“…However, available data are limited. We aimed to conduct a comprehensive review of a consecutive cohort of patients diagnosed with high-risk atypical meningioma who underwent SRS, either as a single-fraction SRS or in the hypofractionated SRS (hf-SRS), and evaluate the LC rates (LCR) with a specific emphasis on patterns of treatment failure. …”
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Association between breastfeeding duration and educational attainment in rural Southwest Uganda: a population-based cohort study by Shamsudeen Mohammed, Clara Calvert, Joseph O Mugisha, Makanga Ronald, Gershim Asiki, Judith R Glynn, Laura L Oakley, Milly Marston

“…Objective This study investigated the association between breastfeeding duration and children’s educational attainment in rural Southwest Uganda. Methods We analysed longitudinal data on 3018 children who had information on breastfeeding and were followed for at least 5 years, with at least one primary school grade recorded by 2005. …”
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Prospective cohort study of voice outcomes following secondary tracheoesophageal puncture in gastric pull-up reconstruction after total laryngopharyngoesophagectomy by Emily C. Deane, Harman Parhar, Linda Rammage, Amanda Hu, Donald W. Anderson

“…These patients had abnormal median fundamental frequency of 250 (interquartile range (IQR) 214–265) Hz and a limited median vocal intensity of 65.8 (IQR 64.1–68.3) dB. Perceptual analysis (GRBAS) revealed a median ‘moderate’ degree of impairment [grade 2 (IQR 2–3), roughness 2 (IQR 2–3), breathiness 3 (IQR 2–3), asthenia 2 (IQR 1–2), strain 2 (IQR 1–2)] as did median intelligibility scores [median 5 (IQR 4–7)]. …”
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The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder and its correlation with health beliefs among medical students by Mohammad Amiri, Zahra Mehmannavaz Mikal, Elham Sadeghi, Ahmad Khosravi

“…Furthermore, people with moderate to high anxiety levels due to COVID-19 had a considerably higher average PTSD score, roughly 13.3 higher, than those who experienced lower stress levels. Conclusion: The findings indicate a negative correlation between the total score of health behaviors and the average score of PTSD. …”
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Patterns and Determinants of Change in Cortisol Levels and Thyroid Function as a Function of Cardiac Risk in Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery by Khouloud Abdulrahman Al-Sofyani, Mohammed Shahab Uddin, Ebtehal Ahmed Qulisy, Osman Osama Al-Radi

“…The study involved 46 children aged 14 years or younger who underwent elective cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. …”
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Impact of immigration-specific stress on safety attitudes: a national cross-sectional study on overseas qualified nurses in Japan by Xinyi Chang, Xiuzhu Gu

“…Notably, ‘Occupation’ disadvantages perceived by OQNs significantly affected all the safety attitude dimensions, such as ‘Teamwork climate’ (B=−5.69, [−7.78, –3.60], p<0.001), ‘Job satisfaction’ (B=−9.38, [−12.32, –6.44], p<0.001) and ‘Stress recognition’ (B=5.86, [3.17, 8.54], p<0.001).Conclusions The findings underscore the significance of implementing effective strategies such as enhancing the sense of belonging, providing better career advancement prospects and opportunities and addressing workplace discrimination to improve safety attitudes among OQNs. …”
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Assessing the readability, quality and reliability of responses produced by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity regarding most frequently asked keywords about low back pain by Erkan Ozduran, Volkan Hancı, Yüksel Erkin, İlhan Celil Özbek, Vugar Abdulkerimov

“…Background Patients who are informed about the causes, pathophysiology, treatment and prevention of a disease are better able to participate in treatment procedures in the event of illness. …”
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The impact of educational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior on preventive behaviors for gastric cancer in obese and smoking individuals by Siamak Najafi, Fatemeh Mohammadkhah, Saina Alempour Salemi, Amirhossein Kamyab, Ali Khani Jeihooni

“…From six urban health centers, two centers were randomly selected (one as the experimental group and the other as the control group). …”
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Associations of the levels of adipokines and cytokines in individual follicles with in vitro fertilization outcomes in women with different ovarian reserves by Xuelan Li, Chujun Li, Jie Yang, Min Lin, Xianli Zhou, Ziyang Su, Yuting Zhang, Xinning Li, Xin Chen

“…Methods A total of 115 women who underwent IVF were recruited. Patients diagnosed with DOR, defined as a basal antral follicle count < 5 or an anti-Mullerian hormone concentration < 1.1 ng/mL, were assigned to the DOR group, while patients with a normal ovarian reserve (NOR) were assigned to the NOR group. …”
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Monozygotic twins with myocarditis and a novel likely pathogenic desmoplakin gene variant by Antheia Kissopoulou, Eva Fernlund, Christina Holmgren, Eira Isaksson, Jan‐Erik Karlsson, Henrik Green, Jon Jonasson, Rada Ellegård, Hanna Klang Årstrand, Anneli Svensson, Cecilia Gunnarsson

“…The aim of this case presentation is to shed light upon a possible link between myocarditis, a desmoplakin (DSP) gene variant, and ARVC by describing a case of male monozygotic twins who presented with symptoms and signs of myocarditis at 17 and 18 years of age, respectively. …”
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In-hospital costs of diabetic foot infection at a national referral hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia by Fitrianingsih, Rani Sauriasari, Em Yunir, Agusdini Banun Saptaningsih

“…Aims: To determine the in-hospital costs of patients with diabetic foot problems who either require or do not require amputation. …”
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Hydrogeochemical characterization of groundwater using water quality index and multivariate statistical analysis in Binji town and environs, Sokoto basin, Northwestern Nigeria by Ibrahim Mohammed Abdullahi, Lawali Abubakar, Garba Saidu, Hassan Yusuf

“…The anions were dominated by HCO3 in the order HCO3 ˃ Cl ˃ SO4 ˃ CO3. Ca ion exceeded the Nigerian standard for drinking water quality (NSDWQ) and the World Health Organization (WHO) set limits in one sample, Mg in 14 samples while K exceeded in four samples. …”
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Comparison of pathophysiology in subclinical hyperthyroidism with different etiologies by Hanna Deguchi-Horiuchi, Mitsuru Ito, Sawako Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Kousaka, Mako Hisakado, Shuji Fukata, Takumi Kudo, Eijun Nishihara, Mitsushige Nishikawa, Akira Miyauchi, Takashi Akamizu

“…Previous studies have reported the individual pathophysiology of endogenous SHyper patients and athyreotic patients receiving TSH suppression therapy with levothyroxine; however, apparently no studies have compared the two conditions. Five-hundred-forty untreated endogenous SHyper patients and 1,024 patients receiving TSH suppression therapy who underwent total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma were sampled. …”
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Point-Based Grading System: Advantages and Disadvantages by N. N. Мaltseva, V. Е. Рenkov

“…These include: the risk of a biased judgment; fostering individualism when everyone is interested only in his/her personal growth; dominance of the written test over the oral answer; and the use of test tasks, which allows one to determine only the initial conceptual level of the subject without revealing the problematic, conceptual depth of knowledge, without identifying creative minds who can think outside the box. Then, through a mental experiment, various pedagogical situations have been assessed in which a formal use of a point-based grading system leads to biased results. …”
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Using a co-design approach to develop a Preventative Online Mental Health Program for Youth (POMHPY): a quality improvement project by Elnaz Moghimi, Kimberly Belfry, Sarah Farr, Shavon Stafford, Arina Bogdan, Megan Brush, Christopher Canning, Soyeon Kim

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Perioperative Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesic Efficacy of Morphine with Combined Nefopam and Parecoxib versus Parecoxib in Gynecologic Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blind... by Varinee Lekprasert, Lapuskorn Yapanan, Wichai Ittichaikulthol, Rungrawan Buachai, Phimol Soisod, Areepan Sophonsritsuk

“…This randomized double-blinded control trial recruited participants (n = 72) who underwent gynecologic surgeries and divided them into either a nefopam or control group. …”
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Relationship Between Weight Status and Health-Related Quality of Life in School-age Children in China by Mandana Zanganeh, Peymané Adab, Bai Li, Miranda Pallan, Wei J. Liu, Lin Rong, Wei Liu, James Martin, Kar K. Cheng, Emma Frew

“…The risk of obesity is greater in children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and higher in boys compared with girls. **Objective:** The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between weight status and HRQOL in children between 6 and 7 years old in this unique country context. …”
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