Antenatal balanced energy-protein (BEP) dietary supplementation is a WHO recommendation in undernourished settings, but ...

Adolescent Depression Disorder (ADD) is a disease with a high rate of disability and death worldwide, and its incidence is increasing, seriously influencing the physical and mental health of ...

Successful completion of chemotherapy is critical to improve breast cancer outcomes. Relative dose intensity (RDI), defined as the ratio of chemotherapy delivered to prescribed, is a measure of ...

There is still a large demand for effective treatments to delay disease deterioration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Typical symptoms of ALS are considered “flaccidity syndrome” in ...

Objectives (1) Identify the healthcare settings in which goal attainment scaling (GAS) has been used as an outcome measure in randomised controlled trials. (2) Describe how GAS has been implemented by ...

Correspondence to Dr Eli Puterman, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; eli.puterman{at}ubc.ca Background The number of adults across the globe with significant ...

Introduction Patients with rib fractures commonly experience significant acute pain and are at risk of hypoxia, retained secretions, respiratory failure and death. Effective analgesia improves these ...

Correspondence to Dr Lissy de Ridder, Pediatric Gastroenterology Department, Erasmus MC Sophia Children Hospital, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands; l.deridder{at}erasmusmc.nl Objective In newly ...

Between Nov 24, 2011, and June 19, 2014, we recruited and obtained consent from 4096 patients from 97 UK centres, of whom 1361 were assigned to the 40 Gy schedule, 1367 to the 27 Gy schedule, and 1368 ...

The ethical practice of research requires researchers to give reasons and justifications for their actions, both to the other members of their research team as well as to external audiences. We ...

Currently, one closed-loop system, the Medtronic MiniMed 670G, is in commercial use in the United States, but randomized trials are needed to assess its efficacy and safety. 8 Such a system, which ...