Essential Oils as Bioinsecticides Against (Linnaeus, 1767): Evaluating Its Efficacy Under a Practical Framework.

Concerns about the negative effects of traditional insecticides and increasing insecticide resistance have prompted the exploration of botanical alternatives like essential oils (EOs). The registration of biocides is a mandatory procedure, and some regions have established a special status for compounds that meet specific low-risk criteria, which includes certain EOs. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the efficacy of sixteen EOs, both registered as low-risk biocides and/or standard biocides, against the German cockroach, .

Disparities of women's authorship in Colombia: A cross-sectional analysis.

Accepted manuscripts published in medical journals play a crucial role within the scientific community. Over the past few decades, there has been a gradual increase in the number of women entering the medical field. However, women remain underrepresented as first and last authors in medical journals.

Reliability of remote video ratings of the scale for assessment and rating of ataxia.

Introduction: The Scale for Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) is a widely used clinical rating scale in ataxia. Remote video assessments of SARA examinations are increasingly used to reduce variability through centralized ratings. Remote video assessments have a high agreement with in-person ratings, but the intra- and inter-rater reliability of remote video ratings has not been examined.

Time to Recovery of Radial Nerve Palsy After Surgically Treated Humeral Shaft Fractures.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report a timeframe for neurologic recovery of complete radial nerve palsies in patients with humeral shaft fractures treated with internal fixation.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the data of patients who underwent surgical treatment of a humeral shaft fracture between 2016 and 2021 at a level I trauma center. Patients with complete sensory and motor radial nerve palsy were identified.

Real-world tafamidis experience in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with peripheral neuropathy in Brazil.

Background:  Tafamidis is a kinetic stabilizer that binds to the transthyretin (TTR) gene, inhibiting its dissociation. It is the only disease-modifying treatment for hereditary TTR amyloidosis with peripheral neuropathy (ATTRv-PN) available in the National Therapeutic Form (Formulário Terapêutico Nacional, FTN, in Portuguese) of the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS, in Portuguese).

Objective:  To assess if the efficacy and safety of tafamidis in the Brazilian real-world experience are comparable to the results of clinical trials.