Trends in HPV‐associated cancer incidence in Texas medically underserved regions by Thao N. Hoang, Abbey B. Berenson, Yong Shan, Fangjian Guo, Victor Adekanmbi, Christine Hsu, Xiaoying Yu, Yong‐Fang Kuo

“…This indicates that targeted prevention efforts towards these regions, especially in low socioeconomic status communities, may benefit future generations.…”
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Prevalence, coverage and effective coverage of refractive error in all age groups in Theni District, India by Ganesh-Babu Balu Subburaman, Sachin Gupta, Ashok Vardhan S, Dipankar Datta, Balagiri Sundar, Thulasiraj Ravilla

“…Overall, REC_N was alarmingly low at 15.9%, improving to 24% in those >70 years, with higher coverage in males and urban populations (p < 0.001). eREC_N was 9.6%, with a quality gap of 39.8%. …”
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Med-DGTN: Dynamic Graph Transformer with Adaptive Wavelet Fusion for multi-label medical image classification by Guanyu Zhang, Yan Li, Tingting Wang, Guokun Shi, Li Jin, Zongyun Gu, Zongyun Gu

“…To address these challenges, we propose Med-DGTN, a dynamically integrated framework designed to advance multi-label classification performance in clinical imaging analytics.MethodsThe proposed Med-DGTN (Dynamic Graph Transformer Network with Adaptive Wavelet Fusion) introduces three key innovations: (1) A cross-modal alignment mechanism integrating convolutional visual patterns with graph-based semantic dependencies through conditionally reweighted adjacency matrices; (2) Wavelet-transform-enhanced dense blocks (WTDense) employing multi-frequency decomposition to amplify low-frequency pathological biomarkers; (3) An adaptive fusion architecture optimizing multi-scale feature hierarchies across spatial and spectral domains.ResultsValidated on two public medical imaging benchmarks, Med-DGTN demonstrates superior performance across modalities: (1) Achieving a mean average precision (mAP) of 70.65% on the retinal imaging dataset (MuReD2022), surpassing previous state-of-the-art methods by 2.68 percentage points. (2) On the chest X-ray dataset (ChestXray14), Med-DGTN achieves an average Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.841. …”
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CT-Free Attenuation Correction in Paediatric Long Axial Field-of-View Positron Emission Tomography Using Synthetic CT from Emission Data by Maria Elkjær Montgomery, Flemming Littrup Andersen, René Mathiasen, Lise Borgwardt, Kim Francis Andersen, Claes Nøhr Ladefoged

“…The model also performed robustly in low-count settings, maintaining performance with reduced acquisition times. …”
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Job satisfaction among people with disabilities in Ethiopia: A cross-sectional survey by Tsega H. Mirach, Rosemary M. Lysaght, Molalign B. Adugna, Abebe A. Alemu, Meseret H. Ayele, Sewbesew Y. Tilahun, Tewelde G. Adhanom

“…Job dissatisfaction was influenced by factors such as low salary, gender, service years and lack of personal assistance. …”
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Clinical characteristics and knowledge of diabetic retinopathy patients at a tertiary hospital in Aceh, Indonesia by Lia M. Zaini, Arief S. Kartasasmita, Tjahjono D. Gondhowiardjo, Maimun Syukri, Putri N. Mulya

“…However, patients’ knowledge of their disease was very low. Contribution: This study crucial data to the Department of Health Authority for policy decision-making.…”
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Validation and Comparison of Pediatric Appendicitis Scores and Management Strategies (Project SPASMS): Protocol for a Prospective Multicenter Observational Study by Wei Hao Lee, Sharon O'Brien, Elizabeth J Mckinnon, Simon Craig, Stuart Dalziel, Michael Collin, Natalie Phillips, Franz E Babl, Sarah Julia Davidson, Shane George, Shefali Jani, Doris Tham, Viet Tran, Meredith L Borland

“…CPSs will be calculated by the study team from clinician-recorded data and clinician gestalt recorded on a visual analog scale. Accuracy of CPSs will be assessed by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and proportions correctly identified as either low-risk or high-risk based on the CPSs published cutoffs. …”
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Predictors of pain reduction following manual therapy in patients with temporomandibular disorders: a protocol for a prospective observational study by Alison B Rushton, Nicola R Heneghan, Deborah Falla, Giacomo Asquini, Andrea Edoardo Bianchi, Giulia Borromeo, Matteo Locatelli

“…Definition of good outcome is a clinically significant reduction of pain intensity over the last week (≥30% reduction Visual Analogue Scale) immediately following the four week intervention. …”
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Effect of Live Environmental Music Therapy and Prerecorded Music on State Anxiety, Stress, Pain, and Well-Being Levels of Patients and Caregivers in the Emergency Department Waitin... by Angélica Hernández, Ana María Díaz, Ornella Fiorillo Moreno, Raúl Suárez, Moshé Amarillo, Ana María Moreno, Bryan Alonso Ríos Suarez, Lina Marcela Gómez González, Guiselle Alexandra Cristancho Olaya, Mark Ettenberger

“…Music has been used in waiting rooms to reduce stress and anxiety, but existing studies on music therapy in emergency unit waiting areas are scarce and have limitations such as low statistical power and limited music selection. …”
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The cultural adaptation of the Friendship Bench Intervention to address perinatal psychological distress in Sierra Leone: an application of the ADAPT-ITT framework and the Ecologic... by Abdulai Jawo Bah, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Mohamed Samai, Rebecca Horn, Alastair Ager

“…The problem-solving therapy was simplified from seven to four steps, and training duration was reduced from nine days to two, using visual aids to enhance comprehension for those with low literacy levels.ConclusionThrough this systematic approach, we successfully culturally adapted the FBI for treating perinatal psychological distress in Sierra Leone. …”
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Aerodynamic performance analysis of a floating wind turbine with coupled blade rotation and surge motion by Kai Wang, Mengshang Zhao, Siqi Chen, Ruosi Zha

“…In terms of the blade pressure distributions and wake characteristics, a higher comprehensive induced velocity, [Formula: see text], is induced to expand the wider high-pressure area and shrink the low-pressure area at the pressure surface. Meanwhile, toroidal vortex ropes were induced by surge motion. …”
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Prevention strategies against academic burnout: the perspective of Romanian health sciences students in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic by Ovidiu Popa-Velea, Ioana Ruxandra Stoian-Bǎlǎşoiu, Ioana Ruxandra Stoian-Bǎlǎşoiu, Alexandra Mihai, Alexandra Ioana Mihǎilescu, Alexandra Ioana Mihǎilescu, Liliana Veronica Diaconescu

“…Participants rated supportive relationships as the most effective in preventing burnout (mean = 3.75; SD = 0.55), followed by relaxation-meditation (mean = 3.32; SD = 0.85), while they also positively valued cognitive-behavioral therapy (those with high burnout scores), and physical activity (those with low burnout scores). Organizational strategies have included re-evaluating the university curriculum (mean = 3.83; SD = 0.48) and increasing access to psychological support programs (mean = 3.72; SD = 0.58) and to programs that increase self-efficacy and resilience (mean = 3.65; SD = 0.61). …”
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Combined systemic immune-inflammatory index and prognostic nutritional index predicts the efficacy and prognosis of ES-SCLC patients receiving PD-L1 inhibitors combined with first-... by Yi Ge, Xiaoyu Liu, Yishi Xu, Yanwei Su, Yixin Li, Liping Wang

“…In addition, we devised a nomogram and scrutinized its accuracy in prediction through receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis and visualized it by calibration plots. Subsequently, a risk classification system was established.ResultsPatients with higher SII-PNI scores exhibited notably poorer survival outcomes compared to their counterpart with low SII-PNI score (p=0.008), as well as poorer short-term curative effects (p=0.004). …”
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TITRATION METHOD OF AB0 ANTIBODIES WITH THE USE OF MODERN GEL TECHNOLOGY IN AB0-INCOMPATIBLE TRANSPLANTATION by A. K. Porunova, V. V. Morozova, I. E. Tsiroulnikova, O. M. Tsiroulnikova, S. V. Gautier

“…It is more obvious as it excludes hardly interpretable results due to the possibility of conducting visual assessment of agglutination reaction in the gel card thick column and requires less time foranalysis. …”
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The impact of malocclusion on the prevalence of pain-related temporomandibular disorders in children and adolescents: a systematic review by Liliana Szyszka-Sommerfeld, Magdalena Sycińska-Dziarnowska, Karolina Gerreth, Gianrico Spagnuolo, Gianrico Spagnuolo, Krzysztof Woźniak, Agata Czajka-Jakubowska

“…The certainty of evidence was assessed as low, according to the GRADE approach. Most of the studies showed that malocclusion may be associated with TMD-pain signs/symptoms in children and adolescents. …”
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Antimicrobial potential of Citrus australasica F. Muell. against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus supported by in silico analysis by Esraa M. Mohamed, Abeer H. Elmaidomy, Sara Mahmoud Farhan, Hesham A. Abou-Zied, Ruqaiah I. Bedaiwi, Faisal Alsenani, Mohamed A. Rabeh, Ghada M. Abbas, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen, Mohamed A. Zarka

“…Among the tested compounds, marmin exhibited a notable docking score of -6.488 kcal/mol and a low RMSD value of 0.956, indicating a strong and stable interaction. …”
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Comparison of tissue damage and inflammation for robotic laparoscopy and conventional laparoscopy in early endometrial cancer by Shengnan Meng, Yanling Cao, Qingwei Shen, Ling Dong, Nan Wang

“…IntroductionThis study was to analyze the dynamics of tissue damage and inflammatory response markers perioperatively and whether these differ between robotic laparoscopy and conventional laparoscopy in early endometrial cancer.MethodsIn a randomized controlled trial conducted at SHANGHAI FIRST MATERNITY and INFANT HOSPITAL, eighty women with early-stage, low-risk endometrial cancer were randomly assigned to receive either robotic or conventional laparoscopy. …”
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Association of early enoxaparin prophylactic anticoagulation with ICU mortality in critically ill patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a machine learning-based retr... by Shan Lin, Jing Zhang, Xin Dang, Qingyuan Zhan

“…This association between enoxaparin use and lower ICU mortality persisted across all subgroups examined. Additionally, a visual analysis of patients with varying Oxford acute severity of illness score (OASIS) indicated that early enoxaparin use was linked to an improved prognosis in critically ill patients with COPD who had higher OASIS than in those without.ConclusionEarly initiation of prophylactic enoxaparin therapy was significantly associated with low ICU mortality in critically ill patients with COPD, especially in high-risk subgroups. …”
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Health literacy demands assessment of web-based COPD inhaler use education video series by Michael Stellefson, Alexa J. Watach, Isabelle Boyd, Sarah Flora, Olivia Campbell, Adam P. Knowlden

“…Health-literacy-aligned patient education materials are critical for people with COPD who often have low health literacy and experience difficulty understanding medication use instructions, even when instructions are delivered using plain language. …”
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Pericapsular Nerve Group Block in Combination with Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve and Sacral Plexus Blocks for Hip Fracture: A Case Series by Liu X, Li L, Liu J, Dong Y

“…Postoperative sufentanil consumption was low (36-83 μg via patient-controlled analgesia [PCA]). …”
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