A qualitative study exploring the acceptability of the TEXTPAD telehealth and virtual supervised exercise intervention and trial for patients with peripheral arterial disease livin... by Maddey Patterson, MPH, Letitia Sermin-Reed, MSc, James Prentis, MBBS, Arathi Radhakrishnan, MBBS, Eileen Kaner, PhD, Sandip Nandhra, MBBS, Maisie Rowland, BSc, Gabriel Cucato, PhD, Mackenzie Fong, PhD

“…Remote, virtual support may overcome some barriers to attending facilities in person experienced by PAD patients, such as poor mobility and financial cost. …”
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Titin gene mutations enhance radiotherapy efficacy via modulation of tumour immune microenvironment in rectum adenocarcinoma by Hengchang Liu, Jialiang Liu, Xu Guan, Zhixun Zhao, Pu Cheng, Haipeng Chen, Zheng Jiang, Xishan Wang

“…Abstract Objective This study investigates the impact of Titin (TTN) gene mutations on radiotherapy sensitivity in rectum adenocarcinoma (READ) by examining changes in the tumour immune microenvironment. …”
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Preliminary effectiveness of social prescription and virtual patient information in increasing tertiary prevention among cancer patients (ESPRIT): protocol for a single-centre, ran... by Karen Steindorf, Michael Koller, Michael Leitzmann, Wolfgang Herr, Daniel Heudobler, Lisa Boyer, Anne Herrmann, Tobias Pukrop, Christine Bernardi, Sabine Einhell

“…The analysis of secondary endpoints will include appropriate statistical methods such as the χ2 test of independence or linear regression models, which will be used to analyse secondary endpoints and to investigate factors influencing preliminary effectiveness.Ethics and dissemination This trial has been approved by the ethics committee of the University of Regensburg (reference: 23-3317-101). …”
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Narratives of swiss football players about talent - and positive youth development: The role of social agents and agency. by Philipp Koch, Bryan Charbonnet, Noora Ronkainen

“…Methods This study builds on a longitudinal quantitative investigation that tracked 109 Swiss elite youth football players born in 1999 throughout their developmental journeys. …”
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The history of childbirth: Women and doctors in the lying-in hospital of Göttingen University, eighteenth – nineteenth century by Jürgen Schlumbohm

“…Because of the much greater number of medical students, however, the opportunities for practical training per person were clearly fewer for medical students than for midwife apprentices. …”
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Longitudinal assessment of diffusion-weighted imaging during magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy in head and neck cancer by Simon Boeke, Jonas Habrich, Sarah Kübler, Jessica Boldt, Fritz Schick, Konstantin Nikolaou, Jens Kübler, Cihan Gani, Maximilian Niyazi, Daniel Zips, Daniela Thorwarth

“…Moreover, it offers the potential to acquire functional information through diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) with the potential to personalize treatment. The aim of this study was to acquire repetitive DWI during the course of online adaptive radiotherapy on an 1.5 T MR-linear accelerator (MR-Linac) for HNC patients and to investigate temporal changes of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of the tumor and subvolume levels. …”
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Molecular testing stratifies the risk of structural recurrence in high risk differentiated thyroid cancer: a retrospective cohort study by Jie Liu, Wensi Gao, Xiong Zheng, Shuping Wu, Yi Shi, Feng Wang, Yu Wu

“…Molecular testing offers a precise approach to recurrence risk stratification in high-risk cases, enabling personalized follow-up and treatment strategies tailored to the specific prognostic profile.…”
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Call for Papers - Advancing Astropharmacy and Sports Pharmacy by Ashley Anderson, Ahmer Raza, Shireen Aziz, Misbah Noreen

“…She is actively working on addressing the challenges of medication stability in space and investigating the physiological effects of the space environment on drug metabolism and action. …”
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Alcohol abuse in gastroenterological patients by M. V. Mayevskaya, I. G. Bakulin, A. A. Chirkov, Ye. O. Lyusina, V. D. Lun’Kov

“…Aim of investigation. To estimate the role of alcohol abuse in gastroenterological patients. …”
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Long COVID: Mapping the Condition-Specific C19-YRSm Measure Onto the EQ-5D-5L by Smith AB, Greenwood DC, Williams P, Kwon J, Petrou S, Horton M, Osborne T, Milne R, Sivan M

“…Responsiveness (standardised response mean; SRM) of the mapped utilities was investigated on a subset of participants with repeat assessments.Results: There was a strong level of association between 8 items and one domain on the C19-YRSm with the EQ-5D single-item dimensions. …”
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Sentiments of Individuals with Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome Toward Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium: Infodemiology Study by Yulin Hswen, Qiuyuan Qin, Pressley Smith, Alison Swierczynski, Stuart Bauer, Erika Ladson, Amanda Leigh Garrett, Catherine A Brownstein

“…Words with the highest probability were ranked to categorize each topic, and authors manually investigated and labeled discussions. ResultsThere were 354 forum posts related to PPS. …”
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How do individuals with mental health disorder and spinal cord injury gain access to participate in voluntary sport groups in Switzerland? by Florence Epiney, Siegfried Nagel, Christopher Klenk

“…This study is the first to investigate on the access to VSGs for ISCIs and IMHDs. …”
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Attitudes Toward Psychotherapeutic Treatment and Health Literacy in a Large Sample of the General Population in Germany: Cross-Sectional Study by Rebekka Schröder, Tim Hamer, Ralf Suhr, Lars König

“…Additionally, basic sociodemographic information and information on personal and family experiences with psychotherapy were collected. …”
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Prevalence of dyslipidemia and its influencing factors among adult residents in Hebei province: a cross-sectional survey by Qianyu LI, Yajing CAO, Lijuan TANG, Yuhuan LIU, Xiaoying LU, Qi QI, Shifan WANG, Xiaoli LIU, Ze CUI

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the prevalence of dyslipidemia and its influencing factors among adults in Hebei province, to provide a reference for the prevention and control of dyslipidemia in the population. …”
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Sources of right to freedom of peaceful assembly by М. А. Sambor

“…Based on the above, the purpose of this article is to investigate the sources of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. …”
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Factors affecting the design of the management dashboard framework with an emphasis on the components of human resources productivity by Hassan Barmaki, Farshad Faezy Razi, Ehtesham Rashidi

“…This process helps employees to reflect on their knowledge, performance or success; and to plan their personal and educational development.…”
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Comprehensive analysis of Pan-Immune Inflammation and all-cause mortality in rheumatoid arthritis: a database-driven approach, 1999-2018 by Muradil· Mardan, Huoliang Zheng, Qingyin Xu, Shaokuan Song, Zeyu Lu, Hui Deng, Hao Cai, Qizhu Chen, Bingyi Yang, Kudelaiti· Abuduwufuer, Pengbo Chen, Bo Li, Shengdan Jiang, Leisheng Jiang, Xin-feng Zheng

“…These findings highlight the potential of PIV as a pragmatic biomarker for stratifying mortality risk and informing personalized treatment strategies in RA.…”
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Exploring Medical Students’ Self-Reported Confidence and Willingness Administering Basic Life Support (BLS) Following Peer-Led Training in the Context of COVID-19 by Sarah Allsop

“…Data were analyzed in three groups: 1) pre-COVID (including in-person training), 2) during COVID (virtual-only training), and 3) post-COVID (including in-person training). …”
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Googling Patients by Emily Beer

“…Clinicians simply ask their patients directly for most types of information, especially personal information. When done with sensitivity and patient understanding that the information is relevant to the interaction, collecting personal information does not feel inappropriately invasive (even if the process may be uncomfortable). …”
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Presenting the entrepreneurship development model in the national oil refining industry with the approach of environmental damage prevention by Jalal Abdi, Reza Yousefi Saeedabadi, Maryam Taghvaee Yazdi

“…Abstract The aim of this research is to investigate the development model of entrepreneurship in the national oil refining industry with the approach of preventing environmental damage. …”
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