Nurse-led dysphagia screening in the intensive care unit - An implementation study.

Background: Postextubation is common in the intensive care unit, and bedside screening by nurses is important to detect the condition and avoid aspiration to the airways.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the implementation of nurse-led, systematic dysphagia screening in the intensive care unit and to identify barriers and facilitators for dysphagia screening.

Methods: Design: pragmatic implementation study.

A novel, multi-active emollient for the prevention of acute radiation dermatitis in breast cancer patients: a randomized clinical trial.

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy of a novel, multi-active emollient in preventing and managing acute radiation dermatitis (ARD) in breast cancer patients undergoing moderate hypofractionated (HF) radiotherapy (RT) compared to standard of care.

Methodsa: A monocentric, open-label, randomized clinical trial (RCT) with breast cancer patients receiving moderate HF (dose: 40.05-55.

Bitter melon extract suppresses metastatic breast cancer cells (MCF-7 cells) growth possibly by hindering glucose uptake.

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among women, however the complete cure for metastatic breast cancer is lacking due to poor prognosis. There has been an increasing trend of dietary modifications including consumption of natural food for the prevention of cancer. One of the popular natural foods is bitter melon.

Porechop_ABI: discovering unknown adapters in Oxford Nanopore Technology sequencing reads for downstream trimming.

Motivation: Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing has become very popular over the past few years and offers a cost-effective solution for many genomic and transcriptomic projects. One distinctive feature of the technology is that the protocol includes the ligation of adapters to both ends of each fragment. Those adapters should then be removed before downstream analyses, either during the basecalling step or by explicit trimming.