Mar 05, 2020

Despite significant research progress on the pathogenesis, molecular biology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer its morbidity and mortality is still high around the world. The emerging re...

Mar 05, 2020

Social media data are being increasingly used for population-level health research because it provides near real-time access to large volumes of consumer-generated data. Recently, a number of studies ...

Mar 05, 2020

Commissural inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord of aquatic vertebrates coordinate left-right body alternation during swimming. Their developmental origin, however, has been elusive. We investigate t...

Mar 05, 2020

Patterns of opioid overprescribing following arthroplasty likely developed given that poor pain control can diminish patient satisfaction, delay disposition, and lead to complications. Recently, inter...

Mar 05, 2020

Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) is a life-threatening complication of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We hypothesized that pretransplant genetic suscepti...

Mar 05, 2020

Bone regeneration is a complex biological process, where the molecular mechanisms are only partially understood. In an ageing population, where the prevalence of chronic diseases with an impact on bon...

Mar 05, 2020

Glutathione (GSH) mediates a wide variety of biological events and human diseases. Although it has been the subject of intense study in recent years, a further understanding of its molecular mechanism...

Mar 05, 2020

This study aims to examine the effects of nursing interventions based on the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB) regarding self-efficacy for exercise (SEE), physical activity (PA), physical fun...

Mar 02, 2020

Background Urinary ethyl glucuronide (EtG) has emerged as the biomarker of choice for alcohol abstinence monitoring in forensic toxicology and is now used in the listing decision process for liver tra...

Mar 02, 2020

Post-operative bradycardia can complicate orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). Previous studies suggested donor age, surgical technique as possible risk factors. However, risk factors in the era of...

Mar 02, 2020

It has been suggested that bridging therapy with intensive chemotherapy and/or hypomethylating agents followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be valuable in the treatment of pat...

Mar 02, 2020

Benign biliary strictures arise mostly from iatrogenic injuries during surgical procedures and various inflammatory causes. Endoscopic placement of multiple plastic stents (MPS) is often regarded as t...

Mar 02, 2020

Nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) affects many Canadians. Although morbidity and mortality are rare, the burden to patients and the health-care system is significant. This study aims to evaluate current ...

Mar 02, 2020

There is a lack of large-scale data that examine complications in plastic surgery. A description of baseline rates and patient outcomes allows better understanding of ways to improve patient care and ...

Mar 02, 2020

Three-dimensional Surface Imaging (3DSI) is a well-established method to objectively monitor morphological changes in the female breast in the field of plastic surgery. In contrast, in radiation oncol...

Mar 02, 2020

Machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, is a set of models and methods that can automatically detect patterns in vast amounts of data, extract information and use it to perform various ...

Mar 02, 2020

Tendon attaches to bone across a robust fibrocartilaginous tissue termed the bone-tendon interface (BTI), commonly injured in the field of sports medicine and orthopedics with poor prognosis. So far, ...

Mar 02, 2020

The first microfluidic microphysiological systems (MPS) entered the academic scene more than 15 years ago and were considered an enabling technology to human (patho)biology in vitro and, therefore, pr...

Mar 02, 2020

We launched a patient engagement strategy to facilitate research involvement of the retinoblastoma (childhood eye cancer) community in Canada. To inform our strategy, we aimed to uncover the experienc...

Mar 02, 2020

Anesthetic induction and other procedures performed by anesthetists are potentially stressful for children. Pediatric anesthetists use communication to rapidly establish rapport and engagement with ch...