Medical research shapes public health actions, emphasising the need for greater investments in health. Despite a surge in scientific publications, disparities exist in authorship from low-income countries and among female researchers. Addressing these gaps is vital for studying real-world health outcomes and promoting universal healthcare delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Surgical removal of lower third molar is one of the most common surgical procedures and is quite stressful for many patients. In this study, two different routes of administration of dexamethasone 8 mg (intravenous [IV] vs. submucosally infiltrated) were used to evaluate the role of dexamethasone in reducing the post-operative inflammatory sequelae following lower third molar removal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pain with gynaecological clinic-based procedures is common and undertreated. Prior research has focused on interventions for reducing pain and anxiety with analgesics, yet there remain gaps in understanding the myriad of facilitators and barriers to a person's positive experience. We aimed to start to address these gaps by exploring factors that influence a person's experience during gynaecological procedures beyond quantitative measures of pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFX-ray scattering experiments using Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) are a powerful tool to determine the molecular structure and function of unknown samples (such as COVID-19 viral proteins). XFEL experiments are a challenge to computing in two ways: i) due to the high cost of running XFELs, a fast turnaround time from data acquisition to data analysis is essential to make informed decisions on experimental protocols; ii) data-collection rates are growing exponentially, requiring new scalable algorithms. Here we report our experiences analyzing data from two experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) during September 2020.
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