High-Resolution Free-Breathing Chemical-Shift-Encoded MRI for Characterizing Lymph Nodes in the Upper Abdomen.

Objectives: Accurate lymph node (LN) staging is crucial for managing upper abdominal cancers. Ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging effectively distinguishes healthy and metastatic LNs through fat/water and -weighted imaging. However, respiratory motion artifacts complicate detection of abdominal LNs.

The Carbon Footprint of Hospital Services and Care Pathways: A State-of-the-Science Review.

Background: Climate change is the 21st century's biggest global health threat, endangering health care systems worldwide. Health care systems, and hospital care in particular, are also major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.

Objectives: This study used a systematic search and screening process to review the carbon footprint of hospital services and care pathways, exploring key contributing factors and outlining the rationale for chosen services and care pathways in the studies.

Improved costs and turnaround time for Treponema pallidum detection utilising a real-time PCR assay developed for the Hologic Panther Fusion system.

The aims of this study were to evaluate the performance and workflow characteristics of a laboratory-developed test to detect Treponema pallidum on the Hologic Panther Fusion system compared with an existing commercial assay. A Hologic Panther Fusion-based real-time polymerase chain reaction assay was optimised for T. pallidum (TP RT-PCR) using previously published primer and probe sequences and validated with a simplified preprocessing protocol.

Body Weight Gain Associated With Alectinib in Patients With ALK+ Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Pooled Analysis of Individual Patient Data From Four Prospective Clinical Trials.

Purpose: Weight gain is a known adverse event (AE) of alectinib. This study evaluates the progression of actual weight gain over time and explores its association with baseline characteristics.

Methods: A pooled analysis of individual patient data from four clinical trials (ALEX, J-ALEX, ALUR, and ML29453) was conducted.

Social perceptions going online: Exploring the impact of social media food content exposure on perceptions of food norms.

Social media is becoming an increasingly important environment for food-related content, however, the question of whether the food content encountered on social media contributes to the perception of food-related social norms is relatively unexplored. In the present study, we addressed this question by testing whether exposure to unhealthy food content on YouTube is related to how people perceive social norms regarding (un)healthy food consumption. Furthermore, we investigated the boundary conditions for the hypothetical link between the exposure and the norm perceptions, focusing on the type of content (i.