Prim Care Companion CNS Disord
December 2024
The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
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October 2024
The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss the diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNumerous Deep Learning (DL) classification models have been developed for a large spectrum of medical image analysis applications, which promises to reshape various facets of medical practice. Despite early advances in DL model validation and implementation, which encourage healthcare institutions to adopt them, a fundamental questions remain: how can these models effectively handle domain shift? This question is crucial to limit DL models performance degradation. Medical data are dynamic and prone to domain shift, due to multiple factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMotility allows microbes to explore and maximize success in their environment; however, many laboratory bacterial strains have a reduced or altered capacity for motility. Swimming motility in depends on peritrichous flagella and is carried out individually as cells move by biased random walks toward attractants. Previously, we adapted strain 3610 to the laboratory for 300 generations in lysogeny broth (LB) batch culture and isolated lab-adapted strains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomed Pharmacother
September 2024
Aims: Azacitidine, a drug that epigenetically modifies DNA, is widely used to treat haematological malignancies. However, at low doses, it demethylates DNA, and as a result, can alter gene expression. In our previous publication, we showed that low doses of azacitidine induce telomere length elongation in breast cancer cells.
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July 2024
The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Patient experience narratives (narratives) are an increasingly important element of both measurement approaches and improvement efforts in healthcare. Prior studies show that narratives are considered by both clinicians and staff to be an appealing, meaningful, and credible form of evidence on performance. They also suggest that making concrete use of narratives within organizational settings to improve care can be complex and challenging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough the order Rodentia does not present a high risk of extinction compared to mammals as a whole, several families demonstrate high levels of threat and/or data deficiency, therefore highlighting the need for targeted research and the application of ecological and reproductive data to the development of conservation actions. The order Rodentia, the largest among mammals, includes 9 families, and the family Cricetidae is the most diverse of the Brazilian rodents. In Brazil, 12 of the 16 genera of Oecomys are found.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss the diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLead-free layered double perovskite nanocrystals (NCs), i.e., CsM(II)M(III)Cl, have recently attracted increasing attention for potential optoelectronic applications due to their low toxicity, direct bandgap nature, and high structural stability.
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May 2024
The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReduced kidney AMPK activity is associated with nutrient stress-induced chronic kidney disease (CKD) in male mice. In contrast, female mice resist nutrient stress-induced CKD. The role of kidney AMPK in sex-related organ protection against nutrient stress and metabolite changes was evaluated in diabetic kidney tubule-specific AMPKγ2KO (KTAMPKγ2ΚΟ) male and female mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: The extent to which changes in health sector finances impact economic outcomes among health care workers, especially lower-income workers, is not well known.
Objective: To assess the association between state adoption of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion-which led to substantial improvements in health care organization finances-and health care workers' annual incomes and benefits, and whether these associations varied across low- and high-wage occupations.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Difference-in-differences analysis to assess differential changes in health care workers' economic outcomes before and after Medicaid expansion among workers in 30 states that expanded Medicaid relative to workers in 16 states that did not, by examining US individuals aged 18 through 65 years employed in the health care industry surveyed in the 2010-2019 American Community Surveys.
Prim Care Companion CNS Disord
February 2024
The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in India and to achieve the goal of TB elimination, it is important to assess the trend of TB cases and the impact of lockdowns and other restrictions imposed for control of COVID-19 in India on the National TB Elimination Programme. Hence, the present study aims to study the temporal trend of TB cases and assess the impact of lockdown on TB detection. A retrospective record-based study was conducted in a tertiary care institute of India.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: (Ela g, oil palm) pollen is one of the most predominant species of inhalant allergens in the tropical Southeast Asia region; however, its association with the manifestation of allergic diseases remains largely unexplored. This study aimed to determine the sensitization pattern of oil palm pollen and associate this with the risk and severity of allergic diseases.
Methods: Participants were recruited as a part of the Singapore and Malaysia cross-sectional genetic and epidemiological study (SMCSGES).
To define cellular immunity to the intracellular pathogen , we performed a genome-wide CRISPR loss-of-function screen to identify genes important for (interferon gamma) IFN-γ-dependent growth restriction. We revealed a role for the tumor suppressor for maximum induction of Interferon Stimulated Genes (ISG), which are positively regulated by the transcription factor IRF-1. We then performed an ISG-targeted CRISPR screen that identified the host E3 ubiquitin ligase as necessary for IFN-γ-mediated control of in multiple human cell types.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSilver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been widely utilized in various biomedical and antimicrobial technologies, displaying broad-spectrum activities against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria including multidrug-resistant strains. However, the emergence of resistance to AgNPs upon repeated exposure and the survival of bacteria after initial exposure to antimicrobial agents pose a threat, as they may lead to the development of new resistant populations. To combat the early stages of antibacterial resistance, systematic analysis is essential to understand the immediate response of bacteria to antimicrobial agents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInorganic CsPbX (X = Cl, Br, I) perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) possess many advantageous optoelectronic properties, making them an attractive candidate for light emitting diodes, lasers, or photodetector applications. Such perovskite NCs can form extended assemblies that further modify their bandgap and emission wavelength. In this article, a facile direct synthesis of CsPbX NC assemblies that are 1 μm in size and are composed of 10 nm-sized NC building blocks is reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2023
Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning framework that allows remote clients to collaboratively learn a global model while keeping their training data localized. It has emerged as an effective tool to solve the problem of data privacy protection. In particular, in the medical field, it is gaining relevance for achieving collaborative learning while protecting sensitive data.
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November 2023
Background: Enthusiasm has grown about using patients' narratives-stories about care experiences in patients' own words-to advance organizations' learning about the care that they deliver and how to improve it, but studies confirming association have not been published.
Purpose: We assessed whether primary care clinics that frequently share patients' narratives with their staff have higher patient experience survey scores.
Approach: We conducted a 1-year study of 5,545 adult patients and 276 staff affiliated with nine clinics in one health system.
Optimizing energy use in the kidney is critical for normal kidney function. Here, we investigate the effect of hyperglycemia and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibition on urinary amino acid excretion in individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The open-label ATIRMA trial assessed the impact of 8 weeks of 25 mg empagliflozin orally once per day in 40 normotensive normoalbuminuric young adults with T1D.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcross the globe, approximately one in 10 babies are born preterm, that is, before 37 weeks of a typical 40 weeks of gestation. Up to 50% of preterm born infants develop brain injury, encephalopathy of prematurity (EoP), that substantially increases their risk for developing lifelong defects in motor skills and domains of learning, memory, emotional regulation, and cognition. We are still severely limited in our abilities to prevent or predict preterm birth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBilateral hyperglycemic nonketotic chorea is a rare complication of hyperglycemia. In most cases, the literature illustrates patients presenting with unilateral chorea with image findings significant for hyperintense lesions in the basal ganglia on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or hyperdensities on computerized tomography (CT). Here, we present a case of an 83-year-old patient who was admitted to the hospital due to acute onset of orofacial and bilateral upper extremity chorea.
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