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Digital technology for health shows disparities in cancer prevention between digital health technology users and the general population in Romania 3:28

Digital technology for health shows disparities in cancer prevention between digital health technology users and the general population in Romania

Bogdan Cristian Pana, Nicolae Ciufu, Carmen Ciufu, Florentina Furtunescu, Adina Turcu-Ştiolică, Laura Mazilu

A health app can make cancer prevention easier, but this study suggests the people using it may already be the people best equipped to use it. That creates a troubling gap hidden inside a helpful tool.

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Incidence of prostate cancer in transgender women in the US: a large database analysis 4:07

Incidence of prostate cancer in transgender women in the US: a large database analysis

Matthew Loria, DAVID R. GILBERT, Tomasz Tabernacki, Mart Andrew Maravillas, Megan Ann McNamara, Shubham Gupta, Kirtishri Mishra

For transgender women, gender-affirming surgery does not remove the prostate. This study finds prostate cancer is less common than in cisgender men, but still common enough that it cannot simply be ignored.

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IoT platforms assessment methodology for COVID-19 vaccine logistics and transportation: a multi-methods decision making model 3:58

IoT platforms assessment methodology for COVID-19 vaccine logistics and transportation: a multi-methods decision making model

Yasir Khalif Ali, Habib Ullah Khan

A vaccine can be perfectly made and still fail before reaching a patient. Its safety may depend on an invisible journey: keeping it cold, watched, and accounted for every step of the way.

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From Top-Right to User-Right: Perceptual Prioritization of Point-Feature Label Positions 3:28

From Top-Right to User-Right: Perceptual Prioritization of Point-Feature Label Positions

Petr Bobák, Ladislav Čmolík, Martin Čadík

When a map places a label beside a location, the choice may feel obvious: put it above and to the right. But users in this study preferred something different, putting the label directly above.

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Socio-economic impacts of the recent bio-invasion of Callinectus sapidus on small-scale artisanal fishing in southern Italy and Portugal 3:52

Socio-economic impacts of the recent bio-invasion of Callinectus sapidus on small-scale artisanal fishing in southern Italy and Portugal

Ludovica Nardelli, Vincenzo Fucilli, Hugo Pinto, Jennifer Nicole Elston, Annalisa Carignani, Alessandro Petrontino, Francesco Bozzo, Michel Frem

A crab invasion can turn a familiar day at sea into damaged nets, longer hours, injuries, and less money. But the same animal creates a very different crisis in two nearby European fishing regions.

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Impact of neurofibromatosis type 1 with plexiform neurofibromas on the health-related quality of life and work productivity of adult patients and caregivers in the UK: a cross-sectional survey 2:58

Impact of neurofibromatosis type 1 with plexiform neurofibromas on the health-related quality of life and work productivity of adult patients and caregivers in the UK: a cross-sectional survey

Hyun Kyoo Yoo, Alex Porteous, Alvin Wei Tian Ng, Keval Haria, Annabel Griffiths, Andrew J. Lloyd, Xiaoqin Yang, Gbenga Kazeem, Volkan Barut

A condition affecting nerves can reshape daily life for both the person who has it and the family member who helps care for them. This survey found the burden reaches far beyond the tumour itself.

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Can heat conditions affect the heart rate responses, perception of effort, and technical performance of young male football players during small-sided games? a comparative study 3:04

Can heat conditions affect the heart rate responses, perception of effort, and technical performance of young male football players during small-sided games? a comparative study

ZhiHui Kang, Z. Chen, G. B. Liu

A hot football session can make young players’ hearts race and effort feel harder, yet the clearest sign may be quieter: they complete fewer passes. The surprising part is what heat does not change.

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Determinants of quality of life decrease in family caregivers of care-dependent patients: a longitudinal study 3:09

Determinants of quality of life decrease in family caregivers of care-dependent patients: a longitudinal study

Marcus Luciano de Oliveira Tavares, Adriano Marçal Pimenta, Cristina García‐Vivar, Mark Anthony Beinner, Lívia Cozer Montenegro

Caring for a dependent relative can quietly reshape the caregiver’s entire life. This study followed families over time to ask a crucial question: what makes that decline worse, and what helps protect against it?

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Cultural tightrope walkers: a qualitative study of being a young refugee in quest for identity and belonging in Norway 2:44

Cultural tightrope walkers: a qualitative study of being a young refugee in quest for identity and belonging in Norway

Per‐Einar Binder, Hanna Heggen, Elisabeth Buer Vase, Gro Mjeldheim Sandal

Imagine growing up with one set of expectations at home and another outside, and feeling like a stranger in both places. This study finds that painful position can also become a source of unusual strength.

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Understanding the measurement relationship between EQ-5D-5L, PROMIS-29 and PROPr 3:09

Understanding the measurement relationship between EQ-5D-5L, PROMIS-29 and PROPr

Brendan James Mulhern, Tianxin Pan, Richard Norman, An Tran‐Duy, Janel Hanmer, Rosalie C. Viney, Nancy J. Devlin

A health questionnaire can say you have no problems while another detects serious trouble with sleep or tiredness. This study explains why different checklists can produce different pictures of the same person.

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Trends in industry payments and volume and distribution of robot-assisted surgeries 3:39

Trends in industry payments and volume and distribution of robot-assisted surgeries

Katia Noyes, Ajay A. Myneni, Aaron B. Hoffman, Joseph D. Boccardo, Lorin M. Towle-Miller, Taylor Brophy, Steven D. Schwaitzberg

Robotic surgery is becoming more common, but the important question is not only whether it works. It is also who is helping surgeons learn to use it, and what else is being measured.

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Contemporary national outcomes of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in necrotizing soft tissue infections 3:28

Contemporary national outcomes of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in necrotizing soft tissue infections

William Toppen, Nam Yong Cho, Sohail Sareh, Anders Kjellberg, Anthony J. Medak, Peyman Benharash, Peter Lindholm

A fast-moving infection can destroy skin, muscle, and deeper tissue, sometimes costing a person a limb or their life. This study asks whether breathing oxygen under pressure may improve those odds.

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