03/06/2025
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John Quattrochi and colleagues report that in communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a comprehensive WASH program did not reduce diarrhea, and did not increase child length-for-age.
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03/25/2025
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Hiroki Shinmura and colleagues investigate whether a lateral position helps in the management of breech presentation in pregnancy.
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03/11/2025
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Sara Ahmadi-Abhari and colleagues examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and years of life lost, with and without disability, in 18 European countries.
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03/04/2025
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Mary Ellen Gilder and colleagues use samples taken from pregnant women during antenatal visits to detect submicroscopic malaria, and examine the results in a case-cohort study.
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03/18/2025
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Juan Carlos Salgado and colleagues assess changes in calories and critical nutrients in packaged foods and non-alcoholic beverages in Mexico associated with the implementation of front-of-pack warning labels in 2020.
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03/21/2025
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By identifying thirteen independent risk factors, Yulong Ma, Siyuan Liu, Faqiang Zhang, Xuhui Cong, Bingcheng Zhao and team construct a prediction model for perioperative stroke in Chinese patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
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02/28/2025
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Meng Zhu, Xia Zhu, Yuting Han and team develop polygenic risk scores for cancer in Chinese populations.
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02/26/2025
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Cameron Razieh and colleagues compare ethnicity data from national health records in England with information provided by individuals in England's 2021 census.
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02/12/2025
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Ally Memedovich and colleagues investigate the extent to which market size and other drug characteristics predict patent challenges within the first year of eligibility among small-molecule drugs.
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02/24/2025
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Brian Critelli, Amier Hassan and team critically assess the reporting quality of ML-based prognostic models in acute pancreatitis.
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James Neal Russell and colleagues explore antibiotic use and mortality prediction in hospitalised neonates and infants with sepsis.
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