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Feb 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2998-4211.jalr-23-4813
Esther del Carmen Teruel HernándezCorresponding author
This study systematically reviews the literature on non-pharmacological interventions for disrupted sleep-in people meeting established criteria for moderate-severe dementia, and to analyze the methodological quality of the included studies. The PubMed, PEDro, Cochrane, Virtual Health Library, APA P…
Feb 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-23-4879
Shih-Ping LinCorresponding author
Background Cancer and diabetes are risk factors for COVID-19 mortality rates. Remdesivir, dexamethasone, and vaccines are used to improve clinical outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the factors associated with COVID-19 mortality rates. Methods This retrospective study enrolled moderate to critical COVID…
Jan 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2574-4496.jtc-23-4835
Abbas Hussein Saleh HusseinCorresponding author
The prevalence of thyroid cancer is rapidly increasing worldwide, majorly due to overdiagnosis and overtreatment methods of differentiated thyroid cancer. The emergent and potent preclinical models, high-throughput molecular techniques, and genetic expression microarrays have delivered deeper insigh…
Sep 2023 DOI 10.14302/issn.2574-4496.jtc-23-4722
Patrick J. ConwayCorresponding author
Background Patients with distant metastatic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC) have an estimated 40% ten-year survival rate. Gain of function mutations in the REarranged during Transfection or RET gene in MTC can result in an aggressive phenotype resistant to traditional therapy. In this case report,…
Sep 2023 DOI 10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-22-4255
Alex G. MeelaCorresponding author
Nutrition during pregnancy is of utmost important to ensure positive pregnancy outcomes after delivery. This study examined the utilization of nutrition services provided at health facilities to pregnant women. A cross sectional study design, involving 105 pregnant women and 5 RCH providers from 2 h…
Jun 2023
S. Prakasha Gowda A.Corresponding author
Insulin is a frequent peptide hormone addition in serum-free mammalian cell culture media. It contributes in a variety of biological functions, including as promoting cell proliferation, cell cycle progression, and glucose uptake. However, it is unknown how stable insulin is under in vitro cell cult…
Mar 2023 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-3585.jpmc-23-4442
Basil N OkeahialamCorresponding author
Objective Women have continued to bear a heavy burden of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality with hypertension as the flagship. This is partly because as the modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors are falling in rate, gender specific risk factors have persisted. One of them is age…
Oct 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-22-4333
Emery HezagiraCorresponding author
The motivations and barriers experienced by community health workers (CHWs) during the delivery of maternal and child health (MCH) services are less documented in Rwanda. This study aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators of implementing MCH care as perceived by CHWs. A descriptive qualitativ…
Jun 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-22-4197
Timothy A. AttahCorresponding author
Aim and Objective Despite the growing concerns about the relationship between exposure to radiofrequency radiation (RFR) and detrimental health effects due to the changes in biological processes of experimental animals, there is still ongoing debate on the significance of these findings in causing s…
Jun 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2575-1212.jvhc-22-4054
Sufian Abdo JiloCorresponding author
A cross-sectional study was conducted on bovine hydatidosis from May 2018 to November 2020 with the aims of finding its incidence and economic losses in bovine slaughtered for human consumption in Dalomana municipality abattoir. Usual ante mortem and post-mortem inspection was carried out on overall…
Mar 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2575-1212.jvhc-22-4105
Sadik Zakir AbaduraCorresponding author
Aflatoxins are toxigenic metabolites that are definitely occurring by lethal strains of Aspergillus parasiticus and Aspergillus flavus that commonly dwell and colonize in feed components and various nutritive foodstuffs particularly milk and milk based products. This Review has three main objectives…
Mar 2022
Gudisa BeredaCorresponding author
Dolutegravir suppresses this integration enzyme, so human immune virus can’t create every greater copies of itself, thus ‘’integrase inhibitor.’’ Dolutegravir is hastily absorbed pursuing oral administration. The median maximum plasma concentration is reached 1.5–2.5 hours after oral uptake with a m…
Mar 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-22-4117
Jianqing WuCorresponding author
Several mRNA vaccines are used on the population in the U.S. I started predicting the dangers of mRNA vaccines before March 2021 and update my findings periodically. My prior model study enabled me to identify many flaws in clinical trials, side-effect evaluation methods and mechanism studies, and I…
Feb 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-21-4053
Jianqing WuCorresponding author
Drug industry, controlling medical publishers and large media promote flawed medicine for their revenues by systematically laundering medical knowledge in decades. They maintain and promote flawed research models and suppress disruptive discoveries, thereby precluding reform of medicine. In this stu…
Feb 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2329-9487.jhc-22-4067
O AmaewhuleCorresponding author
Department of Paediatrics, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. Nigeria.
Introduction Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) are structural abnormalities of the heart and intra-thoracic great vessels that are present at birth and may be of functional significance. They are the most frequently occurring congenital anomalies and babies born with severe forms of these defects are…
Feb 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2379-8572.joa-22-4072
Pier Mario BiavaCorresponding author
This translational paper discusses differentiation‑stage factors from zebrafish embryos as epigenetic regulators with potential to reverse neurosensory hearing loss. It outlines experimental evidence, delivery concepts, and research gaps.
Dec 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-21-4025
Allen M. QuiritCorresponding author
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect a large swath of the global population. The Philippine records four hundred seventy-four thousand sixty-four (474, 064) confirmed COVID 19 cases since December 31 2020. The COVID 19 pandemic recently highlighted the role of systemic hyperferrite…
Jul 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2577-2279.ijha-21-3869
Juli JainCorresponding author
Rotenone is well known environmental neurotoxin used to induce Parkinson’s disease (PD) model. Numerous studies are investigated its toxicity on the brain but few studies are available that examined its toxicity on the liver and kidney. Therefore, the main aim of the present work was to explore the…
May 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-21-3820
Erigene RutayisireCorresponding author
In Rwanda the prevalence of mother-to-child HIV transmission is 1.5%, the prevalence was found to be higher in rural area. The purpose of this study was to determine the Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV Infection among Children born from HIV Positive Women in Musanze District. The study findings h…
May 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-21-3824
Steven MunharoCorresponding author
Zimbabwe like many other sub-Saharan African states has been struggling to provide a quality health service delivery system. Nations with rampant corruption and ineffective bureaucracy made worse, the response towards the fight against COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019. Despite the Zimbabwean gover…