Identifying Medical Concepts and Semantic Types in Lay Vocabularies of Health Consumers Who are Concerned with Diabetes on Social Media Using the UMLS and NLP.

This study suggests a way to utilize the existing medical ontology and natural language processing techniques to extract major medical concepts from lay vocabularies of health consumers on social media and group them based on the defined semantic types in the ontology. Diabetes-related discussions on Tumblr was used to test the efficiency of SpaCy and the Markov-Viterbi algorithm to map lay medical terms to the defined medical concepts in the UMLS. The system discussed in this paper can better analyze free texts, take care of word ambiguity and extract the lifestyle indicators from the daily life discussions of diabetic people on Tumblr.

Tracing sources-oriented ecological risks of metal(loid)s in sediments of anthropogenically-affected coastal ecosystem from northeast bay of Bengal.

The current study focused on thirty-nine locations in the four islands (i.e., St.

Androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism might be a possible cause of familial constitutional delay of growth and puberty.

Background: Induction of puberty in boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) through a short course of low-dose testosterone therapy indicates the critical interaction between testosterone and the androgen receptor (AR) during the activation and maturation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis at puberty onset. Previous studies have shown an inverse relationship between the CAG repeat length and the transactivation function or expression level of the AR gene.

Objective: We aimed to investigate whether the AR CAG repeat polymorphism has any implications on pubertal delay.

Impact of anthropogenic activities and the associated heavy metal pollution in Sundarbans waterways: threats to commercial fish and human health.

The exposure of fish to heavy metals is a significant concern for human health and natural ecosystems. Despite being a critical issue, the extent of contamination in tropical fish from developing countries like Bangladesh remains somewhat unexplored. In this study, ten economically vital fish species (Osteogeneiosus militaris, Arius gagora, Harpadon nehereus, Mugil ephalus, Pseudapocryptes elongates, Apocryptes bato, Labeo bata, Tenualosa toil, Notopterus notopterus, and Pampus chinensis) from the Pasur River, Bangladesh, were analyzed by atomic absorption spectrometer for the concentrations of four concerned heavy metals, viz.

Normative Values for Thyroid Volume and Tracheal Index in Healthy Turkish Newborns in an Iodine Sufficient Region.

Objective: The study aims to determine the normal values of thyroid volume and tracheal index in healthy term newborns born in an iodine-sufficient population. Additionally, we investigated the usability of a handheld device for assessing the tracheal index.

Methods: Thyroid imaging was performed at 0-2 days and 15-30 days using handheld and portable ultrasound devices.