Surgery

Global deserts occupy one-third of the Earth’s surface and contribute significantly to organic carbon storage, a process at risk in dryland ecosystems that are highly [...]

Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration (IVDD), primarily caused by nucleus pulposus (NP) dehydration, leads to low back pain. While current treatments focus on symptom ma [...]

Importance: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) disproportionately affects Black women. Immunotherapy improves outcomes in early-stage TNBC (esTNBC) and metastatic TN [...]

Harold Schuknecht was born in 1917 in South Dakota (Figure 1). An otologic surgeon, otopathologist, and research director, his extensive otologic research career spanned [...]

More than a year after the Biological License Application (BLA) approval for CellTrans, cadaveric islet transplantation remains in demise in the United States (U.S.). Whi [...]

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Objective: To determine which ear environment risk factors impact ossiculoplasty hearing outcomes and to generate a statistically-valid grading system for ossiculoplas [...]

Background and objective: The role of focal therapy in the treatment of localized prostate cancer is evolving. However, despite accumulating evidence, current guidelin [...]

Background: American Thyroid Association guidelines support active surveillance (AS) for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). We developed a calculator to aid pati [...]

Introduction: Despite increasing evidence that Environmental Health Monitoring (EHM) is an effective method to perform rodent colony health surveillance, promotes the [...]

Acoustic tweezers can trap and manipulate a target along a desired path without physical contact. Potential applications of this technology may require the propagation of [...]

Background: Disparities in breast cancer mortality persist despite improvements in screening and therapeutic options. Understanding the impact of social determinants o [...]

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Background: The escalating negative impact of climate change on our environment has the potential to result in significant morbidity of rhinologic diseases.

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Purpose: To assess household air pollution levels in urban Chicago households and examine how socioeconomic factors influence these levels. Methods: We deployed wireless [...]

Objective: To analyse the management and outcomes of individuals diagnosed with prostate cancer either before or after organ transplantation, as the impact of organ tr [...]

The endothelial glycocalyx (eGC) is a carbohydrate-rich layer on the vascular endothelium, and its damage can lead to endothelial and organ dysfunction. Heparanase (HPSE) [...]

Importance: Prior reports demonstrated that patients with cancer experienced worse outcomes from pandemic-related stressors and COVID-19 infection. Patients with certa [...]

Importance: Socioeconomically disadvantaged subpopulations are more vulnerable to fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) exposure. However, as prior studies focuse [...]

Background and objective: In the last two decades, the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) benefits from the introduction of robot-assisted laparoscopy surgery in [...]

Opioids are commonly used to reduce pain after surgery; however, there are severe side effects and complications associated with opioid use, with addiction being of parti [...]

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Background: Obesity, Western diet (WD) consumption, and the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are co-occurring and modifiable factors associated with [...]