Therapeutic Effect of Glucose-Insulin-Potassium (GIK) Infusion Therapy in the Treatment of Acute Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning: An Institutional Study.

Background: Acute aluminum phosphide (ALP) poisoning presents a significant global medical challenge, particularly in regions where it is commonly used as a pesticide. Despite medical advancements, mortality rates from ALP poisoning remain high. Glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) infusion therapy has emerged as a potential treatment for ALP poisoning due to its ability to counteract its toxic effects on metabolism and heart function.

Deep learning based multimodal urban air quality prediction and traffic analytics.

Urban activities, particularly vehicle traffic, are contributing significantly to environmental pollution with detrimental effects on public health. The ability to anticipate air quality in advance is critical for public authorities and the general public to plan and manage these activities, which ultimately help in minimizing the adverse impact on the environment and public health effectively. Thanks to recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence and sensor technology, forecasting air quality is possible through the consideration of various environmental factors.

Vertical Integration and Reinforcement of Basic Science Concepts in an Engaging Clinically Oriented Physiology Pharmacology Session (COPPS).

Medical educators are finding it challenging to ensure strong basic sciences knowledge is built in the allocated time assigned in the innovative medical school curriculum. In this article, we introduce a novel method to vertically integrate basic sciences knowledge during clinical training.

Visual Sentiment Analysis from Disaster Images in Social Media.

The increasing popularity of social networks and users' tendency towards sharing their feelings, expressions, and opinions in text, visual, and audio content have opened new opportunities and challenges in sentiment analysis. While sentiment analysis of text streams has been widely explored in the literature, sentiment analysis from images and videos is relatively new. This article focuses on visual sentiment analysis in a societally important domain, namely disaster analysis in social media.

Global User-Level Perception of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications: Data-Driven Approach Using Natural Language Processing.

Background: Contact tracing has been globally adopted in the fight to control the infection rate of COVID-19. To this aim, several mobile apps have been developed. However, there are ever-growing concerns over the working mechanism and performance of these applications.

Metastatic melanoma in the Mid-West of Ireland: a retrospective review.

Background: Melanoma is the fifth most common invasive cancer in Ireland, and incidence is increasing. Metastatic melanoma has been associated with poor overall survival historically. New systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) options for advanced melanoma have emerged in the last decade, and outcomes are improving.

Medical Engineering Education: Designing a Product Innovation and Technology Session for First-Year Medical Students.

The Carle Illinois College of Medicine created an innovative model for medical education that integrates engineering principles into an active learning curriculum. First-year students were introduced to a medical device in an engaging product innovation and technology session. The goals were to discuss the physiology of oxygen saturation and demonstrate the ability to use observation and research to develop a new product idea.

Medial stabilised total knee arthroplasty achieves comparable clinical outcomes when compared to other TKA designs: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the current literature.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare clinical and patient-reported outcome measures of medially stabilised (MS) TKA when compared to other TKA designs.

Methods: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses algorithm was used. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and EMCARE databases were searched to June 2020.

How COVID-19 Transformed Problem-Based Learning at Carle Illinois College of Medicine.

The Carle Illinois College of Medicine is creating an innovative model for medical education that integrates engineering principles into an active learning curriculum. At the Carle Illinois due to the state order of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, students were mandated to terminate in-person instruction. The goal of this work is to show the pros and cons of online versus in person Problem Based Learning (PBL) sessions.

Practical experience of secukinumab in the treatment of psoriasis: experience from a single centre.

Secukinumab is a novel anti-interleukin-17A agent that has achieved a 75% decrease from baseline in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI 75) in 77-81% of patients treated in clinical trials Langley et al. (N Engl J Med 371:326-338, 2014). There is limited data on the use of secukinumab outside of clinical trials.

Introducing First-Year Medical Students to Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Medical education is changing and evolving, and it is evident there is a need for emerging technologies that will improve patient outcomes and healthcare (Brazile et al. Med Teach. 40(12):1264-74, 2018).

An Evolutionary Bootstrapping Development Approach for a Mental Health Conversational Agent.

Conversational agents are being used to help in the screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of common mental health disorders. In this paper, we propose a bootstrapping approach for the development of a digital mental health conversational agent (i.e.

Presence of Diverse Sugarcane Bacilliform Viruses Infecting Sugarcane in China Revealed by Pairwise Sequence Comparisons and Phylogenetic Analysis.

Sugarcane bacilliform viruses (SCBV), which belong to the genus , family , are an important DNA virus complex that infects sugarcane. To explore the genetic diversity of the sugarcane-infecting badnavirus complex in China, we tested 392 sugarcane leaf samples collected from Fujian, Yunnan, and Hainan provinces for the occurrence of SCBV by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays using published primers SCBV-F and SCBV-R that target the reverse transcriptase/ribonuclease H (RT/RNase H) regions of the viral genome. A total of 111 PCR-amplified fragments (726 bp) from 63 SCBV-positive samples were cloned and sequenced.

Development of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Assays for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Two Species in Sugarcane.

Sugarcane-infecting badnaviruses (sugarcane bacilliform viruses, SCBVs) represent a genetically heterogeneous species complex, posing a serious threat to the yield and quality of sugarcane in all major producing regions. SCBVs are commonly transmitted across regions by the exchange of sugarcane germplasm. In this study, we develop two quick, sensitive, and reliable protocols for real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) of (SCBMOV) and (SCBIMV) using two sets of TaqMan probes and primers targeting the reverse transcriptase/ribonuclease H (RT/RNase H) region.