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Porcine Health Manag
January 2025
Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Üllő, Hungary.
Background: Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is a major swine pathogen and a significant zoonotic agent, causing substantial economic losses in the swine sector and having considerable public health importance. The control and management of S.
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December 2024
New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States. Electronic address:
Bone Health ECHO (Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a growing family of online educational programs. Its mission is to enhance delivery of best practice skeletal healthcare worldwide. Each program typically consists of a didactic lecture and discussion of clinical cases with diagnostic and treatment dilemmas.
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January 2025
Department of Medicine (HPE), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Objectives: Diagnostic error is a global emergency. Context specificity is likely a source of the alarming rate of error and refers to the vexing phenomenon whereby a physician can see two patients with the same presenting complaint, identical history and examination findings, but due to the presence of contextual factors, decides on two different diagnoses. Studies have not empirically addressed the potential role of context specificity in management reasoning and errors with a diagnosis may not consistently translate to actual patient care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ambulatory surgeon deals daily with patients who come for various pigmented skin lesions. A number of patients come on the recommendation of a dermatologist, but for the majority of patients, the primary visit is directly to the surgical clinic. The reason for removing a pigmented lesion may be an unsatisfactory cosmetic appearance or frequent irritation due to inappropriate location of the lesion, but also the fear of the development of malignancy.
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December 2024
Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal.
When companies are uncertain about the potential of a new formulation to be bioequivalent to a Reference product, it is common practice to carry out downsized pilot studies as a gatekeeping in vivo strategy to decide whether to move forward or not with a full-size pivotal study. However, due to the small study size, these studies are inarguably more sensitive to variability. To address and mitigate the uncertainty of the conclusions of pilot studies concerning the maximum observed concentration (C), the factor was proposed as an alternative approach to the average bioequivalence statistical methodology.
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