Dec 23, 2024

The study aimed to identify and describe disease activity trajectories over 10 years in patients with recent-onset axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and determine their impact on long-term outcomes.This...

Dec 23, 2024

Climate change and pollution are a major existential threat. Healthcare contributes a noteworthy 4-6% to the total carbon footprint and 5-7% of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Environmental ...

Dec 09, 2024

The opioid crisis in Boston necessitated multifaceted prevention strategies. This qualitative descriptive study engaged stakeholders' perspectives to explore the role of community empowerment and educ...

Nov 04, 2024

Cluster headache (CH) is an excruciating and debilitating primary headache disorder. The prevalence is up to 1.3%, and the typical onset is around age 30. Often misdiagnosed as migraine, particularly ...

Oct 28, 2024

In life history analysis of data from cohort studies, it is important to address the process by which participants are identified and selected. Many health studies select or enrol individuals based on...

Oct 07, 2024

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory musculoskeletal disorder affecting 30% of psoriatic patients. Effective treatment, especially with biologics like IL-17 and TNF inhibitors, is vita...

Sep 30, 2024

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the second most common fatal genetic disease in infancy. It is caused by deletion or intragenic pathogenic variants of the causative gene SMN1, which degenerates anter...

Sep 30, 2024

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic, autoimmune form of arthritis that is associated with a substantial humanistic and economic burden. Potential differences in patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and...

Sep 23, 2024

To assess patients' perceptions of their abdominal wall following extensile anterolateral approaches to the thoracolumbar spine for adult spinal deformity (ASD) using validated questionnaires.Adults w...

Sep 02, 2024

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by persistent inflammation leading to progressively worse disability. Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors and tumor necrosis...

Aug 05, 2024

This study aims to explore how cyclic loading influences creep response in the lumbar spine under combined flexion-compression loading.Ten porcine functional spinal units (FSUs) were mechanically test...

Aug 05, 2024

Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylserine (PS), along with phosphatidylcholine (PC), are key phospholipids (PL) in cell membranes and lipoproteins, prone to oxidative modifications. Their o...

Jul 29, 2024

Retrospective cohort study.Patients with IBD are at an increased risk for postoperative complications following surgery. The goal of this study is to investigate if inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is...

Jul 29, 2024

Numerous studies have linked the inflammatory pathway in psoriasis and metabolic disease, while no specific marker defined it. It is worth exploring the association of β2-microglobulin (β2M) in psor...

Jun 10, 2024

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are central to the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPG axis) and include the rhodopsin-like GPCR family members, neurokinin 3 receptor, kapp...

May 13, 2024

Nutritional assessment tools are used to predict outcomes in cancer. However, their utility in patients undergoing spinal surgery is unclear. This review examined if prognostic nutritional index (PNI)...

May 06, 2024

Our previous studies have shown the therapeutic efficacy of brucine dissolving-microneedles (Bru-DMNs) in treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Bru delivered via the DMNs can bypass some of the issues r...

Apr 29, 2024

Youngia japonica (L.) DC. is a polymorphic annual herb of the Asteraceae family. Although this plant originated in Asia, it is now world-widely distributed. In China, Y. japonica is used for edible or...

Mar 11, 2024

In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), there is an unmet need for more precise patient characterization through quantitative, ideally operator-independent, assessments of disease extent and severity....

Mar 11, 2024

Pain science education (PSE) provides people with an understanding of "how pain works" grounded in the biopsychosocial model of pain; it has been demonstrated to improve outcomes in musculoskeletal pa...