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Curr Pharm Teach Learn
December 2024
Mercer University College of Pharmacy, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta, GA 30341, United States of America. Electronic address:
Background And Purpose: Harm reduction is a paradigm that promotes safer drug consumption to maximize individuals' overall wellbeing. Equipping pharmacy faculty and students to engage in harm reduction can play a key role in addressing substance use disorders and facilitating meaningful educational experiences.
Educational Activity And Setting: Within the context of a 5-week ambulatory care advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE), an APPE faculty preceptor and students engaged a harm reduction coalition with two primary objectives: street outreach initiatives and packaging of safer drug using kits.
Healthc Technol Lett
December 2024
ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa Portugal.
A thorough understanding of surgical anatomy is essential for preparing and training medical students to become competent and skilled surgeons. While Virtual Reality (VR) has shown to be a suitable interaction paradigm for surgical training, traditional anatomical VR models often rely on simple labels and arrows pointing to relevant landmarks. Yet, studies have indicated that such visual settings could benefit from knowledge maps as such representations explicitly illustrate the conceptual connections between anatomical landmarks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003, China has invested substantial efforts in promoting scientific and technological advances for medical countermeasures against high-threat pathogens. The examination of China's landscape identifies progress and gaps in research and development (R&D) and also highlights management and regulatory issues that should be of concern to other countries. Our study examined the current state of R&D of medical countermeasures in China during 1990-2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGait Posture
December 2024
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Division of Orthopedic Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Back muscles simultaneously drive spinal movements and stabilize the trunk. Paraspinal muscle activity is presumed to be symmetric and gender-insensitive, and more activated with aging to protect the spine during functional tasks.
Research Question: Does over-activated and asymmetric behaviors exist in the pain-free elderly population which is affected by their physical activity levels?
Methods: Forty healthy participants (aged 64.
Transfusion
December 2024
Transfusion Medicine Division, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
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