It’s important to note that the table primarily focuses on elevated and high blood pressure; while low blood pressure (hypotension) is less common, it can also be a medical emergency in certain cases. Fortunately, the body often provides warning signs before dangerously low blood pressure become...
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique, meaning it can measure the metabolic activity of cells with an unprecedented sensitivity. Established applications are the diagnosis and staging of cancer, neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, and cardiac diseases [1]. Due ...
Clinical coding is the task of transforming medical information in a patient’s health records into structured codes so that they can be used for statistical analysis. This is a cognitive and time-consuming task that follows a standard process in order to achieve a high level of consistency. Cl...
Ketosis is a metabolic state in which the liver produces small organic molecules called ketone bodies at “sufficient” levels.
Margo Tonnelier1*, Damien Delforge1, Regina Below1, Juan Armando Torres Munguía2, Claude Saegerman3, Valentin Wathelet1, Joris A. F. van Loenhout1,4 and Niko Speybroeck1 Abstract Background Reporting on and monitoring epidemics is a ...
Like the current definition, the proposed 2023 European draft definition, as amended by the EP, is all-encompassing for any genetic intervention and is agnostic to the mechanism of action, duration of action, and specific location of action of the therapeutic intervention; it would include a wide...
Reasonable care is definedas “the degree of caution and concern for the safety of the self and others an ordinarily prudent and rational person would use in the same circumstances.” This means that to avoid a claim of professional negligence, you must adhere to the same standard of care th...
USA; 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA The inclusion of sex as a biological variable in research is absolutely essential for improving our understanding of disease mechanisms contributing to risk and resilience...
Autism, or autism spectrum disorders, is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by limitations in social interaction, communication skills, and repetitive behaviors. Although motor disorders were previously considered marginal in autism, recent res
Dietary modification is one tool in the multidisciplinary and multi-faceted management of malignant bowel obstruction (MBO). However, the evidence for this has not been systematically explored and no guidelines currently exist. The purpose of this review was to identify the type and breadth of publi...