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Acute cardiovascular responses to slow and deep breathing in normotensive non-pregnant and pregnant women

Acute cardiovascular responses to slow and deep breathing in normotensive non-pregnant and pregnant women

Malika Felton, Stephanie Grigsby, Vanora A. Hundley

High blood pressure during pregnancy can threaten both mother and baby, yet medication is not always welcome. This study asks whether changing the pace of breathing can briefly bring the pregnant heart’s responses closer to those seen outside pregnancy.

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Explaining adherence to tuberculosis treatment through the information-motivation-behavioral skills model: a PLS - SEM study in Indonesia

Explaining adherence to tuberculosis treatment through the information-motivation-behavioral skills model: a PLS - SEM study in Indonesia

Nixson Manurung

Taking tuberculosis medicine regularly is not just a knowledge problem. In this Indonesian study, more information was linked with fewer treatment-related skills, while motivation was linked with better skills, the opposite directions make the story surprisingly complicated.

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The Curse of Black Sigatoka: A Backward Bifurcation Perspective

The Curse of Black Sigatoka: A Backward Bifurcation Perspective

Bernard Asamoah Afful, Luis F. Gordillo

A disease can keep spreading even after its estimated spread rate falls below one. That unsettling possibility may help explain why Black Sigatoka remains so difficult to eliminate from banana plantations.

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Case Report: Lymphodepletion followed by CAR-T cell therapy with Idecabtagen vicleucel in a patient with severe renal impairment

Case Report: Lymphodepletion followed by CAR-T cell therapy with Idecabtagen vicleucel in a patient with severe renal impairment

Franziska Elisabeth Marquard, Claudia Langebrake, Dietlinde Janson, Maida Mahmud, Adrin Dadkhah, Nicolaus Martin Kröger, Francis Ayuketang Ayuk

CAR-T treatment can be difficult when the kidneys cannot clear one of its preparation drugs. Yet in this case, a patient with severe kidney impairment received the treatment, and her cancer stayed in complete remission beyond a year.

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A hybrid register and questionnaire study of Covid-19 and post-acute sick leave in Denmark

A hybrid register and questionnaire study of Covid-19 and post-acute sick leave in Denmark

Elisabeth O’Regan, Ingrid Bech Svalgaard, Anna Irene Vedel Sørensen, Lampros Spiliopoulos, Peter Bager, Nete Munk Nielsen, Jørgen Vinsløv Hansen, Anders Koch, Steen Ethelberg, Anders Peter Hviid

Covid can end as an emergency and still leave a mark on ordinary working life. In Denmark, people who had the infection were more likely to spend a substantial stretch of time away from work afterward.

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Wearable derived cardiovascular responses to stressors in free-living conditions

Wearable derived cardiovascular responses to stressors in free-living conditions

David M. Presby, Summer R. Jasinski, Emily R. Capodilupo

Stress does not necessarily end when the stressful moment ends. A wearable may be able to see the body remain changed long after a hard run or a tense period of work.

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Modelling the historical distribution of schistosomiasis-transmitting snails in South Africa using ecological niche models

Modelling the historical distribution of schistosomiasis-transmitting snails in South Africa using ecological niche models

Nisa Ayob, Roelof Petrus Burger, Monray D. Belelie, Ncobile Nkosi, Henno Havenga, Lizaan de Necker, Dirk Cilliers

A disease carried by freshwater snails can move when the weather moves. By tracing where the snails could live, researchers mapped places in South Africa where infection may already be hiding, and where it could spread next.

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A protocol for annotation of total body photography for machine learning to analyze skin phenotype and lesion classification

A protocol for annotation of total body photography for machine learning to analyze skin phenotype and lesion classification

Clare Primiero, Brigid Betz‐Stablein, Nathan Ascott, Brian D’Alessandro, Séraphin Gaborit, Paul Fricker, Abigail Goldsteen, Sandra González-Villà, Katie L. Lee, Sana Nazari, Hang Thanh Nguyen, Valsamis Ntouskos, Frederik Pahde, Balázs Pataki, Josep Quintana, Susana Puig, Gisele Gargantini Rezze, Rafael García, H. Peter Soyer, Josep Malvehy

A skin-scanning system can be good at judging one spot, yet still miss the person around it. This paper asks whether the whole body, medical history, and change over time can make that judgment safer.

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The impact of bleeding event frequency on health-related quality of life and work productivity outcomes in a European cohort of adults with haemophilia A: insights from the CHESS II study

The impact of bleeding event frequency on health-related quality of life and work productivity outcomes in a European cohort of adults with haemophilia A: insights from the CHESS II study

Lisa J. Young, Yong Chen, Jose M. Alvir, Tom Burke, Enrico Ferri Grazzi, Ian C. Winburn

A bleeding event is not only a medical problem. In adults with haemophilia A, more bleeding was linked with poorer daily life and a much larger loss of work productivity.

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A comprehensive UHPLC-MS/MS and extraction method reveals flavonoid profile and concentration are diverse in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)

Michael P. Dzakovich, Elaine A Le, Alvin L Tak, Shaji K. Chacko

Spinach is not chemically simple: its leaves contain a surprisingly varied collection of protective compounds, and the amount can differ greatly from one variety to another. That matters for nutrition research because you cannot study what you cannot reliably measure.

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Reporting delays of chikungunya cases during the 2017 outbreak in Lazio region, Italy

Reporting delays of chikungunya cases during the 2017 outbreak in Lazio region, Italy

Mattia Manica, Giovanni Marini, Angelo Giuseppe Solimini, Giorgio Guzzetta, Piero Poletti, Paola Scognamiglio, Chiara Virgillito, Alessandra della Torre, Stefano Merler, Roberto Rosà, Francesco Vairo, Beniamino Caputo

During the 2017 chikungunya outbreak in Italy, people often became ill long before health officials knew an outbreak was happening. Even after detection, the typical delay was still long enough for transmission to continue.

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Virtual simulation in healthcare education: a multi-professional, pan-Canadian evaluation

Virtual simulation in healthcare education: a multi-professional, pan-Canadian evaluation

Margaret Anne Verkuyl, Efrem Mauro Violato, Nicole Harder, Theresa Southam, Mélanie Lavoie‐Tremblay, Sandra Goldsworthy, Wendy D. Ellis, Suzanne Campbell, Lynda Atack

Healthcare students need real clinical experience, but hospitals cannot always provide enough placements. This study asks whether a screen-based patient encounter can help prepare them, and finds that simply adding one is not enough.

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