Asbestos exposure remains a critical public health concern in the United States due to its well-established link with mesothelioma. Understanding how risk is estimated and how modern advancements are ...

Background The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) defines sepsis as a life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection.

Objectives National selection for higher surgical specialty training (HST) in the UK is a high-stakes gatekeeping assessment. If barriers, such as differential attainment, exist at HST selection for ...

1 Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine in Neurological Rehabilitation, Cangzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western of Hebei Province, ...

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are known to be the gold standard for medical research, and this study design is preferred for investigating the efficacy of new interventions. Many authors and ...

Purpose The childhood hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) sequelae cohort study (HNHFMDCS) is an ambispective cohort study of patients with HFMD based in Henan Province, China, consisting of patients ...

Objective: To investigate the factors associated with the recurrence of colorectal polyps. Methods: Data on polyp recurrence and related factors, including gender, age, BMI, family history, smoking ...

cOncology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain dDepartment of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ...

Objectives Patients with haematological malignancies (HM) experience high-intensity medical care near the end of life (EOL), have low rates of hospice and palliative care (PC) use and are more likely ...

Objective To examine trends in diagnosis of gender dysphoria and related conditions in children and young people attending primary care practices in England. Design Longitudinal analysis of electronic ...