Other Medical Disciplines

Lower levels of IGF-1 were an independent risk factor for further decompensation, acute-on-chronic liver failure and liver-related mortality, highlighting the clinical significance of low IGF-1 in liver cirrhosis.

This study investigated the occurrence of radial artery thrombosis following the transradial route of coronary angiography and related risk factors for its occurrence.

Bilateral TTNS, integrated with traditional physical therapy with diaphragmatic and abdominal exercises, improved constipation symptoms and quality of life in postpartum women.

The Department of Health and National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System of the Australian Government reported a rise in the prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in Australia.

The Japanese National Institute of Infectious Diseases reports a rise in the number of patients with toxic shock syndrome in Japan.

On December 8th, 2023, the World Health Organization announced that Zambia had reported its largest anthrax outbreak for a decade.

The accumulation of nanoparticles in the female reproductive organs impairs the development of oocytes and can compromise fertility. In addition, cancer treatment with nanomedicines appears to be influenced by the specific biodistribution of nanoparticles in the female reproductive system.

A short time after systemic inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide, microglia were activated, followed by a reduced number of hippocampal γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic synapses and long-lasting cognitive impairment.

In some patients with colorectal cancer, the intratumoral microbiota possesses the ability to deplete 5-FU, thereby reducing the efficacy of chemotherapeutic agent within the colonized microniches.

Bat coronavirus TyRo-CoV-162275 has a putative furin protease cleavage site in its spike protein, and similar to MERS-CoV, likely utilizes human dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (hDPP4) as a receptor for cell entry.

AHA presidental advisory provides the definition of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome syndrome and guides how to better detect, prevent, and manage it.

This review article discusses the new perspective of glaucoma as a tau-associated disorder, and analyzes the recent findings on the link between tau protein dysregulation and glaucomatous neurodegeneration.

The patients with inflammatory bowel disease had an increased long-term risk of developing cardiac arrhythmias, with the exception of bradyarrhythmias

This study revealed a gender-specific association between depressive symptoms and specific forms of childhood trauma in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In women, the severity of depressive symptoms was associated with childhood sexual abuse, which was three times as often as in men.

This study showed that AEF0117 reduced the positive subjective effects of cannabis and self-administration of cannabis in individuals with cannabis use disorder in comparison to placebo. It seems that AEF0117 decreases the abuse-related effects of cannabis not affecting normal behavior or activities.

The use of ADHD medications was associated with a reduced risk of attempted or completed suicide. On the contrary, the use of benzodiazepines was associated with a marked increase in suicide risk.

This study reports the third case of HIV-1 cure after allogeneic CCR5Δ32/Δ32 hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and provides detailed information about the virological and immunological signature before and after analytical treatment interruption.