Examining the Peer-Reviewed Literature on Tobacco-Related Social Media Data: Scoping Review.

Introduction: Tobacco researchers have used social media data to examine tobacco industry marketing practices (eg, influencers), and to document user experience with tobacco products. This study summarized the literature that analyzed tobacco-related social media data, including domain, social media platform, tobacco product type, and themes of findings, among other variables.

Aims And Methods: PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Communication Source were searched between 2004 and 2022.

Analytical performance of the FDA-cleared Parsortix PC1 system.

Introduction: The Parsortix PC1 system, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared for use in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients, is an epitope-independent microfluidic device for the capture and harvest of circulating tumor cells from whole blood based on cell size and deformability. This report details the analytical characterization of linearity, detection limit, precision, and reproducibility for this device.

Methods: System performance was determined using K-EDTA blood samples collected from self-declared healthy female volunteers (HVs) and MBC patients spiked with prelabeled cultured breast cancer cell lines (SKBR3, MCF7, or Hs578T).

Type II endometrial cancers with minimal, non-invasive residual disease on final pathology: What should we do next?

There are minimal data regarding the management of high risk endometrial cancer histologies lacking invasive disease on the final pathology specimen. This study examines a cohort of these patients and assesses outcomes including time to recurrence and risk of death after management with and without adjuvant therapies. Endometrial cancer patients with minimal or no remaining invasive disease on final pathologic specimen from 1995 to 2010 were included.

Genital injuries acute evaluation and management.

Genital trauma may result in external injuries to the labia, vulva or vagina, urethra and anus and internal injuries to the bony pelvis, bladder, bowels and reproductive organs. Worldwide, the most common cause of genital trauma in reproductive age women is injury sustained during childbirth, but in this chapter we will focus on accidental genital injuries as well as those arising from sexual violence, and female genital mutilation. While genital injuries alone rarely result in death; if not properly managed, chronic discomfort, dyspareunia, infertility, or fistula formation may result.

Dietary supplementation of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera, Dunal) enhances NK cell function in ovarian tumors in the laying hen model of spontaneous ovarian cancer.

Problem: Ovarian cancer (OVCA) disseminates in a distinct pattern through peritoneal metastasis and little is known about the immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment. Our goal was to determine changes in NK cell population during OVCA development and the effects of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera, Dunal) supplementation on NK cell localization in laying hens with OVCA.

Methods: Frequency of NK cells in ovarian tumors at early and late stages in 3- to 4-year-old hens (exploratory study) as well as in hens supplemented with dietary Ashwagandha root powder for 90 days (prospective study) was examined.

A comparison of deployed occupational tasks performed by different types of military battalions and resulting low back pain.

With deployment Soldiers must now wear body armor and additional equipment while performing occupational tasks, representing a large demand that has not been considered when studying military occupations. The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe tasks required by different occupational battalions within a Brigade Combat Team; (2) establish the incidence of low back pain (LBP) in each battalion and; (3) determine which tasks predict LBP within the different battalions. This was a prospective cohort study investigating 805 Soldiers in a Brigade Combat Team deployed to Afghanistan for 1 year.

Loads worn by soldiers predict episodes of low back pain during deployment to Afghanistan.

Study Design: Prospective cohort study.

Objective: To describe low back pain (LBP) sustained by soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and identify demographic, fitness, and occupational risk factors of LBP.

Summary Of Background Data: LBP is the most common injury in deployed soldiers.

Development of a clinical prediction rule for diagnosing hip osteoarthritis in individuals with unilateral hip pain.

Study Design: Prospective cohort/predictive validity study.

Objective: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of common clinical examination items and to construct a preliminary clinical prediction rule for diagnosing hip osteoarthritis (OA) in individuals with unilateral hip pain.

Background: The current gold standard for the diagnosis of hip OA is a standing anteroposterior (AP) radiograph of the pelvis.