Download to Heal: Navigating the Pixelated Path of Digital Therapeutics in Psychiatric Care.

Digital therapeutics have evolved rapidly with technological advances in healthcare. Despite their increasing use, gaps remain in understanding their regulatory frameworks, integration, and efficacy for conditions like substance use disorder, insomnia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. This study evaluates FDA-approved digital therapeutics and explores their potential to revolutionize psychiatric treatments amid ongoing technological and regulatory changes.

Changes in glycemic control and body weight over the course of the COVID 19 pandemic in an outpatient setting.

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic altered health outcomes in populations through a host of downstream social, economic, and psychological changes, especially among those with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Some studies reveal worsened glycemic control and weight gain, while others indicate improved glycemic control and weight loss. Thus, evidence demonstrates conflicting results in this context.

Short messaging service (SMS) texting for uncontrolled diabetes among persons experiencing homelessness: Study protocol for a randomized trial.

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is common among persons experiencing homelessness (PEH), often inadequately managed, and carries significant costs. mHealth strategies including short messaging service (SMS) texting have been feasible and acceptable, and improved control of chronic diseases including DM. SMS strategies for DM have not been tested among PEH despite the accessibility of mobile phones.

Where Do We Go from here? Post-pandemic Planning and the Future of Graduate Medical Education.

Background: As the pandemic wanes, there is an opportunity to reevaluate resultant changes in graduate medical education (GME), particularly from the viewpoints of those affected most. We aimed to assess both trainee and faculty perceptions on the educational changes and innovations resulting from the pandemic to inform future educational planning.

Methods: We surveyed trainees and core education faculty at three New York City children's hospitals.

Surgical Treatment of Diverticulitis: Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Resection Is Predominantly Used for Complex Cases and Is Associated With Increased Postoperative Complications and Prolonged Hospitalization.

Introduction Laparoscopic (LAP) colectomy is now the "gold" standard for diverticulitis; the role of hand-assisted LAP (HAL) and Open methods today is unclear. This study assessed the elective use of these methods for diverticulitis. Methods A retrospective review of demographic, comorbidity (Carlson Comorbidity Index [CCI]), resection type, and short-term outcomes was carried out.

Warning about the harms of tobacco use in 22 countries: findings from a cross-sectional household survey.

Background: Knowledge about the harms of tobacco use deters initiation and is associated with cessation. Most studies on this knowledge in the general population have been in high-income countries, but the tobacco use burden is increasing in low-income and middle-income countries. We sought to estimate levels of knowledge about tobacco-related diseases in 22 countries and determine the factors associated with differences in knowledge.

In vivo comparison between cardiac allograft vasculopathy and native atherosclerosis using near-infrared spectroscopy and intravascular ultrasound.

Aims: The aim was to compare cardiac allograft vasculopathy to native atherosclerosis by near-infrared spectroscopy-intravascular ultrasound (NIRS-IVUS).

Methods And Results: Twenty-seven atherosclerotic (non-transplant) patients and 28 heart transplant recipients undergoing routine surveillance coronary angiography underwent NIRS-IVUS imaging of the left anterior descending coronary artery. In each proximal, middle, and distal coronary artery segment, the maxLCBI4mm [4-mm long segment with maximum lipid core burden index (LCBI)] and corresponding IVUS parameters were compared.

Predictors of new-onset distal neuropathic pain in HIV-infected individuals in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy.

Despite modern combination antiretroviral therapy, distal neuropathic pain (DNP) continues to affect many individuals with HIV infection. We evaluated risk factors for new-onset DNP in the CNS Antiretroviral Therapy Effects Research (CHARTER) study, an observational cohort. Standardized, semiannual clinical evaluations were administered at 6 US sites.

A news media analysis of the economic and reputational penalties of the hospital readmissions reduction program.

Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 established the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), an initiative designed to penalize hospitals with excess 30-day readmissions. This study investigates whether readmission penalties under HRRP impose significant reputational effects on hospitals. Data extracted from 2012 to 2013 news stories suggest that the higher the actual penalty, the higher the perceived cost of the penalty, the more likely it is that hospitals will state they have no control over the low-income patients they serve or that they will describe themselves as safety net providers.

A phase II study of laquinimod in Crohn's disease.

Objective: Laquinimod is an oral therapeutic agent under investigation for the treatment of Crohn's disease (CD), Huntington's disease, lupus nephritis and multiple sclerosis. This dose escalation study evaluated the safety and efficacy of laquinimod as induction therapy in patients with active moderate-severe CD.

Design: Multicentre, double-blind, sequential-cohort, randomised controlled trial with laquinimod doses of 0.

The role of relationship biography in advance care planning.

Objective: We examine the ways that romantic relationship biographies are related to whether, how, and with whom individuals complete advance care planning (ACP), preparations for end-of-life medical care.

Method: Data are from an Internet survey of 2,144 adults aged 18 to 64, all of whom were either married to or cohabiting with an opposite-sex partner.

Results: Cohabitors were less likely than married people to complete ACP.