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J Pediatr Urol
February 2025
Department of Pediatric Urology, Riley Hospital for Children, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN, United States.
Introduction: The American Urological Association (AUA) recommends urology referral and surgery for undescended testicle (UDT) before 18 months of age, but it has been shown that many referrals occur later, influenced by social factors.
Objective: This study aims to identify key social factors that impact UDT referral timing and appropriateness.
Study Design: Pediatric patients referred to our institution for UDT management from 2018 to 2023 were analyzed.
Disabil Health J
March 2025
School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia.
Background: The importance of health literacy in personal health management is widely recognised in the general population, yet remains poorly understood in some patient groups, including people with spinal cord injury or disorder (SCI/D).
Objectives: The systematic review had two objectives: (1) to determine the health literacy levels of individuals with SCI/D, and (2) to identify facilitators and barriers to developing health literacy in this group.
Methods: Seven databases (CINAHL, Embase, Emcare, ProQuest, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science) were searched from inception, with an updated search completed on January 21, 2025.
Med Educ Online
December 2025
Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Resitting, being offered a 'second chance' at an exam following failure to achieve a passing grade, is both common and stressful in medical school. There is a significant gap in the medical education literature around evidence-based support for resitting medical students. The study explores medical student experiences of resits through a peer-assisted learning programme (PAL) delivered to early years resitting medical students at Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) in 2021 and 2022.
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March 2025
Department of Rheumatism and Immunology, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050000, China.
Chronic pain is a significant public health concern that diminishes patients' quality of life and imposes considerable socioeconomic costs. Effective pharmacological treatments for ongoing pain are limited. Recent studies have indicated that various models of chronic pain-such as neuropathic pain, inflammatory pain, and pain associated with cancer-have abnormal levels of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs).
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March 2025
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: Using menstrual products is a part of managing menstrual bleeding. Products use may represent individual, social, and economic influences. A few studies on menstrual product use from specific regions in the United States (US) reported differences in use across demographic factors like age and race and ethnicity.
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