Josephine Hessert, DO, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician based in Southern California. Blood pressure readings at a medical office may be inaccurate or misleading due to measurement ...

aDepartment of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China bDepartment of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, ...

Objective: to identify validated instruments that can be used for the functional assessment of elderly persons in Palliative Care. Method: an integrative review focused on identifying instruments for ...

Lynne Eldrige, MD, is a lung cancer physician, patient advocate, and award-winning author of "Avoiding Cancer One Day at a Time." Performance status tells how well someone with cancer can do daily ...

For this narrative review, peer-reviewed articles were searched on PubMed, clinical trials records were searched on clinicaltrials.gov, and records of digital measures submitted for regulatory ...

HIV remains an epidemic of major public health importance in Cameroon but a decline in HIV prevalence has been observed according to population-based surveys conducted in 2004, 2011 and 2018. We ...

Transmitter-receiver (T-R) probes are widely used in the eddy-current testing of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP). However, T-R probes have the disadvantage of being highly sensitive to ...

Background Frailty is associated with advancing age and increases the risk of adverse outcomes and death. Routine assessment of frailty is becoming more common in a number of healthcare settings, but ...

Data of patients with early-stage NSCLC who received CT-guided L-SABT (radioactive I-125 seeds implantation) at eight different centers from December 2010 to August 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.