Candida albicans and Gardnerella vaginalis are two common infectious organisms of the female urogenital tract. Single agent boric acid (BA) topical preparations have been a treatment for resistant gynecologic Candida and...
Persisters are a special group of quiescent and phenotypically unique cells in a given microbial population that survive antimicrobial insults or stresses but retain properties of the original population. Persisters have been...
Objectives: Arch branching has never been shown to influence recoarctation after extended end-to-end anastomosis via thoracotomy, yet in each study bovine arch identification is grossly underreported. This study aims to: 1)...
Brexanolone (ZULRESSO ™) is a novel approach to treat postpartum depression in adult women as a neuroactive steroid similar in chemical composition to the hormone allopregnanolone. It was approved for use in adult women...
Osteoporosis, a disease of low bone mass, places individuals at enhanced risk for fracture, disability, and death. In the USA, hospitalizations for osteoporotic fractures exceed those for heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer...
This project created the first website capable of searching published biomedical knowledge and returning a rank ordered list of actions most effective at improving health. These actions have font scaled based on the odds ratios...
Odds ratios are one of the methods in statistics to quantify how strongly the presence or absence of a property correlates with the presence or absence of another property in a given population. In the biomedical sciences they...
Burnout: A psychological syndrome from emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decreased personal accomplishment. Can also include cynicism (Stehman, et al., 2019).
Submitted as part of the BMS-515 Public Health and US...
Acute cardiac injury is a common cardiovascular complication of Covid19 and little is currently known about the long term implications of the complications and manifestations. Vascular complications show a hypercoagulable state...
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread mRNA vaccinations against SARS-CoV2. Side effects include fatigue, headache, myalgia,
fever, nausea, and lymphadenopathy, frequently experienced in younger recipients (16-55 years)...
Introduction: The Catholic medical ethic is supported by a rich intellectual tradition and remains foundational to the practice of medicine, especially within Catholic hospitals. In the US, the United States Conference of...
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) is one of the most common cancers in the world, and even in developed countries like the United States, the five-year survival is only 65%. This already low survival rate drops...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique situation for medical education worldwide as traditional medical training is not compatible with social distancing guidelines. Curriculums, content delivery, and procedures across...
Troglitazone (TRO), a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonist, was a drug used as an anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic agent. We had previously investigated a PPAR agonist that induced apoptosis in dose...
Hypoxia is a critical stress that can affect the normal development of a mammal embryo. Normally, Hypoxia is buffered by the Utero-placental apparatus in human infants; however, prematurely delivered infants may encounter...
Under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), hospitals with high readmission rates are penalized by reductions in Medicare reimbursements. In particular, Parkview Noble hospital has experienced high readmission...
Gardnerella vaginalis (GV) is associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV), a dysbiosis that predisposes to preterm labor and increased susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections. The potential role of cytokines elaborated...
Background
Access to healthcare is a multidimensional concept influenced by many factors:
- Individuals of lower socioeconomic status tend to have a more difficult time accessing care leading to poorer health (McMaughan et...