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The integration of multidisciplinary tumor boards (MTBs) is fundamental in delivering state-of-the-art cancer treatment, facilitating collaborative diagnosis and management by a diverse team of specialists. Despite the clear benefits in personalized patient care and improved outcomes, the increasing burden on MTBs due to rising cancer incidence and financial constraints necessitates innovative solutions. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical field offers a promising avenue to support clinical decision-making.

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Objective: The medical literature has demonstrated disparities and variability in physician salaries and, specifically, emergency physician (EP) salaries. We sought to investigate individual physician characteristics, including sex and educational background, together with individual preferences of graduating EPs, and their association with the salary of their first job.

Methods: The American College of Emergency Physicians and the George Washington University Mullan Institute surveyed 2019 graduating EPs.

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Small-breed dogs live significantly longer lives than large-breed dogs, while having higher mass-specific metabolic rates and faster growth rates. Underlying this observed physiological difference across domestic dogs, there must also be differences at other levels of organization that could lead to elucidating what accounts for the disparity in aging rates and life span within this species. At the cellular level, a clear mechanism underlying whole animal traits has not been fully elucidated.

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  • Internalizing disorders like depression and anxiety are common in adolescents with substance use disorders, making it crucial to address both issues simultaneously in treatment.
  • The study aims to develop and assess a new treatment protocol called Fam-AID, which integrates family support and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques without significantly changing existing substance use treatment practices.
  • The research consists of two phases: an initial pilot phase for protocol development with input from stakeholders, followed by a comparison between standard care and the enhanced Fam-AID treatment in diverse adolescent cases to evaluate its effectiveness and acceptability.
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Anxiety disorders represent one of the most common and debilitating illnesses worldwide. However, the development of novel therapeutics for anxiety disorders has lagged compared to other mental illnesses. A growing body of research suggests the gut microbiota plays a role in the etiopathology of anxiety disorders and may, therefore, serve as a novel target for their treatment through the use of probiotics.

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For more than 30 years, clinical practice guidelines for the perioperative support of patients who undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery have recommended a formal psychological evaluation before surgery. However, the predictive utility of the evaluation in determining future outcomes has been mixed, leading to controversy regarding whether such evaluations should be required for all potential patients. This empirically based commentary will review the utility and value of the psychological evaluation in addition to the limitations in the extant literature that reduce predictive validity and provide recommendations on how to improve quality of the empirical literature and refinements to increase the utility of preoperative evaluations.

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Background: Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infects one third of the world's population with significant illness, mainly among immunocompromised individuals and pregnant women. Treatment options for toxoplasmosis are limited which signifies the need for novel, potent, and safe therapeutic options.

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The many forms of cannabis use: Prevalence and correlates of routes of administration among nationally representative samples of U.S. adult and adolescent cannabis users.

Addict Behav

December 2024

Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University, 816 17th St, Huntsville, TX 77340, United States of America. Electronic address:

Background: Cannabis legalization has made cannabis accessible via dispensaries which sell a wide variety of cannabis products. Importantly, the various routes of administration are associated with differing consequences. As such, it's crucial to understand the prevalence and correlates of different cannabis products.

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Frequently mentioned anecdotally, hangovers are under-investigated within the scientific study of alcohol, as is the role of physical activity (PA) on hangovers. The well-established positive association between PA and AC (AC) suggests that PA may buffer negative physiological consequences of AC, including hangovers. The present study was therefore conducted in order to determine whether PA influences hangovers.

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is associated with respiratory disease in wild and domestic Caprinae globally, with wide variation in disease outcomes within and between host species. To gain insight into phylogenetic structure and mechanisms of pathogenicity for this bacterial species, we compared genomes for 99 samples from 6 countries (Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, China, France and USA) and 4 host species (domestic sheep, domestic goats, bighorn sheep and caribou). Core genome sequences of assemblies from domestic sheep and goats fell into two well-supported phylogenetic clades that are divergent enough to be considered different bacterial species, consistent with each of these two clades having an evolutionary origin in separate host species.

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  • The study analyzed psychological symptom changes in 1,906 adolescents receiving mental health services over time using both youth and caregiver reports.
  • The Symptoms and Functioning Severity Scale (SFSS) was effective in tracking youth-reported treatment change, while caregiver reports were less reliable.
  • The findings suggest that the youth-reported SFSS is a promising tool for clinical use, but further research is needed to find better measures for caregivers.
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  • 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is an effective chemotherapy drug but can cause liver damage, necessitating research into protective agents like thymol, a compound found in thyme.
  • Administration of thymol alongside 5-FU in rats showed it could reduce liver injury by boosting antioxidant levels and improving apoptotic markers.
  • The study demonstrated, for the first time, thymol's ability to protect the liver by potentially modulating key signaling pathways involved in oxidative stress and apoptosis.
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Background: Daily clinical practice requires repeated and prolonged venous access for delivering chemotherapy, antibiotics, antivirals, parenteral nutrition, or blood transfusions. This study aimed to investigate the performance and the safety of totally implantable vascular access devices (TIVADs) over a 5-year follow-up period through a standardized well-trained surgical technique and patient management under local anesthesia.

Methods: In a retrospective, observational, and monocentric study, 70 patients receiving POLYSITE TIVADs for chemotherapy were included.

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Research has documented that domestic violence increased worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies have also suggested that alcohol use, which also increased during COVID-19, is a risk factor for domestic violence victimization. However, research has yet to examine whether alcohol consumption mediated the relationship between pandemic-related stressful events and domestic violence.

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  • The study looked at how levels of testosterone and cortisol hormones connect to traits of psychopathy in university students.
  • Researchers found that higher levels of cortisol in the morning were linked to lower psychopathy scores, but this connection didn't show up in the afternoon.
  • The researchers did not find any significant effects based on the participants' sex or interactions between the hormone levels themselves.
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  • The study investigates how forensic evaluators differ in their opinions and decision-making during sexually violent predator (SVP) evaluations, suggesting that evaluator characteristics influence their assessments more than the individuals being evaluated.
  • Although the study was exploratory, it anticipated finding bias among evaluators, where some would consistently assign higher risk scores and more SVP-relevant diagnoses, reflecting a tendency to identify behavioral abnormalities.
  • Results showed that evaluator differences accounted for significant variance in behavioral opinions and diagnoses, indicating that evaluators rely on different factors rather than a simple pattern of bias in their final conclusions.
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Identification of synthetic cathinone positional isomers using electron activated dissociation mass spectrometry.

Anal Chim Acta

August 2024

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences (AIMMS), Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Center for Analytical Sciences Amsterdam (CASA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center (CLHC), Amsterdam Center for Forensic Science and Medicine, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address:

Background: Synthetic cathinones (SCs) are a large category of new psychoactive substances (NPS), which pose a serious threat to public health due to limited information about their toxicology and pharmacology. Many SCs are closely related in their chemical structures, with some substances being positional isomers. In this study, we propose a new workflow for the identification of SC isomers using liquid chromatography-high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) combined with electron activated dissociation (EAD) and chemometrics.

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Research suggests that religious activity and spiritual experiences are associated with well-being among emerging adults. This research is primarily evaluated on the between-person level, leaving within-person effects largely unexplored. We examined relations between religious activity and spiritual experiences and their relation to life satisfaction and alcohol use among 383 college students at a moderately large university in the southwest USA.

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  • The review highlights the recent approval of resmetirom for treating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a liver disease related to obesity, emphasizing its potential impact on global health and the need for a multidisciplinary management approach.* -
  • Resmetirom is effective in treating MASH and has received FDA approval, but its safety, potential adverse events, and effectiveness across different populations require further study to optimize patient outcomes.* -
  • A comprehensive treatment strategy is recommended, combining resmetirom with lifestyle changes and metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS), to enhance liver and overall health for individuals suffering from MASH.*
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Granular cell tumour-A case of recurrent pneumonia due to an endobronchial lesion.

Respirol Case Rep

August 2024

Pulmonary and Sleep Physicians of Houston Webster Texas USA.

Granular cell tumours are rare, mostly benign masses that arise from Schwann cells. Their pathophysiology is poorly understood, but the lesions are often seen in the breast, tongue, and skin. In this case report, we discuss a 34-year-old patient with recurrent pneumonia.

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Primary Cell Culture as a Model System for Evolutionary Molecular Physiology.

Int J Mol Sci

July 2024

Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University, 1900 Avenue I, Huntsville, TX 77341, USA.

Primary cell culture is a powerful model system to address fundamental questions about organismal physiology at the cellular level, especially for species that are difficult, or impossible, to study under natural or semi-natural conditions. Due to their ease of use, primary fibroblast cultures are the dominant model system, but studies using both somatic and germ cells are also common. Using these models, genome evolution and phylogenetic relationships, the molecular and biochemical basis of differential longevities among species, and the physiological consequences of life history evolution have been studied in depth.

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The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) is a concept map developed to consolidate research on psychopathy. Recently, the CAPP - Self Report form (CAPP-SR) was developed, but its psychometric properties have not been extensively or independently investigated. The current study evaluated the internal consistency, factorial structure, and construct validity of the CAPP-SR in a large sample of undergraduate and community participants.

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Over the millennia, patterns of food consumption have changed; however, foods were always whole foods. Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have been a very recent development and have become the primary food source for many people. The purpose of this review is to propose the hypothesis that, forsaking the evolutionary dietary environment, and its complex milieu of compounds resulting in an extensive metabolome, contributes to chronic disease in modern humans.

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The quartification model is an SU(3)4 extension with a bi-fundamental fermion sector of the well-known SU(3)3 bi-fundamentalfication model. An alternative "flipped" version of the quartification model is obtained by rearrangement of the particle assignments. The flipped model has two standard (bi-fundamentalfication) families and one flipped quartification family.

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