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This review synthesizes phase 2 and 3 trial data demonstrating that the pentavalent MenABCWY vaccine is immunologically non-inferior and well tolerated compared with MenB-fHbp and MenACWY-CRM vaccines, offering a simplified, effective vacci
This study examines the relationship between children’s and parents’ screen use and language development in children aged 5 to 7 years, finding parental smartphone use may slow vocabulary growth, while device ownership correlate
Few US adults with alcohol or opioid use disorder reported addiction pharmacotherapy use in 2022-2023. Pharmacotherapy receipt was linked to increased healthcare utilization, underscoring the need for early outpatient intervention strategie
This article explores how health system factors like spending, workforce density, and radiotherapy availability influence lung cancer mortality worldwide, highlighting actionable targets for improving outcomes globally.
This study analyzes the ACA Medicaid expansion’s effect on severe maternal morbidity during delivery hospitalizations, finding increased Medicaid coverage but no significant change in severe maternal morbidity rates, underscoring the
This study links higher neighborhood deprivation with increased 90-day mortality following major hepatectomy, highlighting social determinants as vital preoperative risk factors.
Long-term intensive BP control led by trained nonphysician community providers significantly lowers cardiovascular risk over 7 years, with benefits persisting 3 years post-intervention in rural China.
This cluster-randomized trial in rural China demonstrates that a coordinated community- and family-based intervention effectively lowers systolic blood pressure at the population level, highlighting the importance of sustained community eng
Adults with type 1 diabetes face substantial financial toxicity and cost-related nonadherence, especially younger adults, underscoring the need for targeted interventions beyond traditional social determinants of health.
Following the 2018 MISSION Act expansion, VA specialty referrals and community care outsourcing increased substantially without reducing outpatient specialty wait times, signaling the need for alternative access-improvement strategies.
Technology-guided diet counseling training using the Nutri platform improves resident physicians’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and intention to discuss diet, facilitating shared decision making in routine primary care.
This study explores how economic, educational, healthcare, neighborhood, and social factors link to multiple frailty dimensions in Chinese older adults, highlighting cognition as a key intermediary.
This review examines informed consent patterns and predictors in an international ICU trial on stress ulcer prophylaxis, highlighting the shift to deferred consent, pandemic influences, and implications for critical care research ethics.
This bibliometric study reveals persistent gender disparities in authorship of critical care publications, with women better represented in low- and middle-income countries and a modest increase in female authorship from 2018 to 2022 global
Young survivors of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage face a lifelong risk of developing new aneurysms, with female sex, smoking, and family history as key risk factors. Smoking cessation reduces this risk, supporting need for lifelong surv
Randomized Quality Improvement (RQI) trials offer robust evidence for healthcare interventions but raise ethical and regulatory challenges. A proposed framework provides streamlined oversight enabling safer, evidence-based care improvements
High exposure to ambient NO2 and O3 air pollutants is associated with approximately one year earlier natural menopause, highlighting environmental risks to women’s reproductive aging.
Islet autoantibody positivity varies significantly among racial and ethnic groups and is influenced by socioeconomic deprivation, implicating tailored screening and prevention strategies for equitable diabetes care.
This study highlights significant gaps in global surgery education among medical students in Australia and New Zealand, revealing limited curricular exposure despite strong student interest and support for inclusion in medical training.
This study reveals that trauma significantly increases social risks such as food insecurity and housing instability, especially in younger adults, highlighting the need for targeted interventions to mitigate socioeconomic consequences post-
