The historic academic affiliation program between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and academic medical centers recently marked its 75th anniversary. The partnership has dramatically influenced medical education, research, and clinical care in the United States. In commemorating the anniversary, this article highlights areas in medicine that the partnership has influenced. The authors provide examples from their own experiences of particularly effective collaborations and describe some of the limitations they have encountered. Looking toward the future, they highlight other areas in which collaboration may be particularly effective.
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Rheumatology (Oxford)
January 2025
Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and Neurosciences, Research Center of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases and Behçet's Disease Clinic, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
Objectives: To assess the lung involvement in patients with Still's disease, an inflammatory disease assessing both children and adults. To exploit possible associated factors for parenchymal lung involvement in these patients.
Methods: A multicentre observational study was arranged assessing consecutive patients with Still's disease characterized by the lung involvement among those included in the AIDA (AutoInflammatory Disease Alliance) Network Still's Disease Registry.
Cent Eur J Public Health
December 2024
Department of Public Health and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Kosice, Slovak Republic.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to confirm the relevance of knowledge a dentist has regarding obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), considering the fact that based on specific risk factors a dentist may be the first clinician to identify patients who are at risk of being affected by this serious condition.
Methods: The cohort consisted of 53 subjects who underwent a routine dental examination. Anthropometric data and data on tongue size (Mallampati classification), tonsil size (Friedman classification), daytime sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale) and systemic risk factors were recorded in a record sheet.
Med Biol Eng Comput
January 2025
School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China.
Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) has become crucial in medical image analysis, enabling the adaptation of source models across diverse datasets without labeled target domain images. Self-training, a popular SFDA approach, iteratively refines self-generated pseudo-labels using unlabeled target domain data to adapt a pre-trained model from the source domain. However, it often faces model instability due to incorrect pseudo-label accumulation and foreground-background class imbalance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe American Heart Association's (AHA) Life's Essential 8 (LE8) metrics provide a framework for assessing cardiovascular health (CVH). This study evaluates the relationship between CVH levels from LE8 and mortality risk, considering biological aging's role. Using data from the NHANES non-CVD adult population, CVH scores were categorized as low (< 50), moderate (50-79), and high (≥ 80) per AHA guidelines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMinerva Urol Nephrol
December 2024
European Association of Urology (EAU), Young Academic Urologists (YAU) Renal Cancer Working Group, Arnhem, the Netherlands.
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