To compare short-term outcomes of Arabs versus Jewish infants in Israel.

We used the Israel national VLBW infant database to compare adjusted mortality and major morbidities rates of Arabs versus Jewish infants delivered between January 1995 and December 2016. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to study the…[Read more]

Concurrent use of amphetamine-type stimulants among individuals with opioid use disorder can exacerbate social and medical harms, including overdose risk. The study evaluated rates of amphetamine-type stimulant use among patients with untreated opioid use disorder presenting at emergency departments in Baltimore, MD; New York, NY; Cincinnati, OH;…[Read more]

Spinal cord infarction (SCI) occurs rarely and is characterized by abrupt onset of neck or back pain and neurologic deterioration. Fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE) of the spinal cord is a rare but possible cause of acutely progressive spinal cord symptoms. Here, we report the case of an older woman who developed acute paraplegia with SCI on the…[Read more]

Social capital is often cited as shaping impacts of participatory arts, although the concept has not been systematically mapped in arts, health and wellbeing contexts. In wider health inequalities research, complex, differential, and sometimes negative impacts of social capital have been recognised.

This paper maps of social capital…[Read more]

The aim of this study was to characterize determinants of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony (LVMD) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

Medical records and results of myocardial perfusion SPECT/CT studies were evaluated in 326 patients with previously diagnosed CAD. LVMD was assessed with the phase analysis of ECG-gated…[Read more]

rular complement activation occurs. Furthermore, our data indicate a potential novel role of podocytes in the innate immune system.The burden of disease is a major challenge in aquaculture production. The fish gill characterized with a large surface area and short route to the bloodstream is a major environmental interface and a significant portal…[Read more]

Exfoliation of non-layered (structurally) bulk materials at the nanoscale is challenging because of the strong chemical bonds in the lattice, as opposed to the weak van der Waals (vdW) interactions in layered materials. We propose a top-down method to exfoliate ϵ-MnO2 nanosheets in a family of charge-ordered La1-x AEx MnO3 (AE=Ca, Sr, Ba)…[Read more]

Since Canada decriminalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2015, clinicians and organizations have developed policies and protocols to implement assisted dying in clinical practice. Five years on, there is little consensus as to what constitutes high-quality care in MAID.

To describe MAID clinicians’ perspectives on quality of care…[Read more]

Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) is an important molecular chaperone that regulates oncoprotein stability and tumorigenesis. However, attempts to develop anti-chaperone drugs targeting molecules such as Hsp70 have been hampered by toxicity issues. Hsp70 is regulated by a suite of co-chaperone molecules that bring “clients” to the primary chaperone…[Read more]