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Background: Women with previous caesarean deliveries (CD) contribute to rising CD rates globally, yet limited evidence exists from rural South African district hospitals. The social value of this study lay in understand...

Abstract Parasitic diseases such as malaria, leishmaniasis, and schistosomiasis remain difficult to treat due to the pathogens’ complex life cycles, intracellular niches, and resistance to conventional therapies. Tradi...

Background. Viral infections remain a major global health threat despite advances in vaccines and antiviral drugs due to the rapid emergence of resistance and new viral pathogens. Antiviral peptides (AVPs) are promising ...

Abstract Background HIV/AIDS continues to pose a significant public health challenge globally and in India, despite the availability of free antiretroviral therapy (ART) through government healthcare services. People liv...

An Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) is an automated vehicle used to support the delivery of food and beverages in restaurant service systems, where manual methods still carry risks of delays and spillage. This study design...

Invasive fungal infections remain a major cause of global morbidity and mortality, with resistance to conventional antifungal agents posing an increasing challenge. Ethosomal nanocarriers have gained attention as effecti...

ObjectiveIn the present study, we established a rat model of optic nerve injury to evaluate whether direct local delivery of neurotrophic agents following traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) enhances retinal ganglion cells ...

Abstract Background Instrumental delivery is a dying art, that needs proper training and practice to revive it and help decrease cesarean delivery rates. This study aimed to declare the obstetricians’ attitude towards ...

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Improving the quality of care is essential for enhancing utilization and compliance with interventions, ultimately reducing preventable mortality and morbidity among women and newborns during...

Introduction: In recent years, the prevalence of atopic diseases among children has increased. Increasing evidence suggests that early gut microbiota development, shaped in part by the mode of delivery, feeding practices...

ABSTRACT Background and Aim Health management, leadership, and governance (HMLG) are considered essential for achieving universal health coverage (UHC), and various efforts have been made to strengthen the management, le...

Background: In South Africa, the term ‘service delivery’ has become ubiquitous in public discourse, encompassing a wide array of issues from water outages to damaged roads. However, this generalisation often masks t...

OBJECTIVE: Automated insulin delivery (AID) systems represent the most advanced technology for managing insulin-dependent diabetes. This review compares three AID systems currently available in Poland. MATERIALS AND METH...

Abstract Background While antenatal corticosteroids (ACSs) are standard for early preterm birth, their benefit‒risk profile for the late preterm period is controversial, and the effect of the ACS-to-delivery interval o...

BackgroundThe growing global population of older adults presents significant challenges for health and social care systems, requiring effective quality improvement (QI) interventions to enhance care delivery and outcomes...

BackgroundTransforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) contributes to more severe pulmonary disease in people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF). Our preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated that losartan could reverse...

Abstract Background Tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge in Somalia, where a fragile health system and reliance on private providers complicate care. Although Public-Private Partnerships are globally reco...

Abstract BackgroundAnimated messages designed to promote preventive health behaviors (health animations) are a prevalent form of digital health communication globally and are used across a variety of health b...

Abstract Purpose This study examined the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses among pregnant women who delivered in hospitals in the United States between 2016 and 2020, and explored associations...

Tuberculosis (TB) disease during pregnancy, particularly in persons living with HIV (PLHIV), is associated with poor maternal and neonatal outcomes. There are barriers to TB screening and care for PLHIV in the pregnant a...

Abstract Background Bacterial cancer therapies have regained attention as a strategy to remodel the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Engineered bacteria equipped with tumor-targeting moieties can enhance i...

ObjectiveTo explore the pro-inflammation resolution and protective effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive liposomes modified with a cardiac-targeted peptide and loaded with resolvin D1 (RvD1, C-LP-RvD1) on m...

BackgroundOptimal uterine closure at cesarean delivery remains unsettled, as most comparative trials emphasize the number of layers rather than surgical biomechanics. We tested whether a layered precision (LP) suturing t...

Miao Yuan,1,* Yang Wu,1,* Jing Zheng,1,* Chaoran Wang,1 Jiarong Wang,1 Yifan Zheng,1 Yunqi Wang,1 Baiqi Wang1,2 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tianj...