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Early Antibiotic Use and Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study
Introduction The introduction of antibiotics has played a significant role in reducing mortality in neonatal sepsis, with rates declining in high-income countries over the past few decades.1 However, simultaneously, the concern for a potential delayed diagnosis has led to frequent empirical use of antibiotics.
Racial Differences in Choroidal Vascularity Index in Healthy Patients: Novel Insights
Introduction The choroid is primarily a vascular structure with a surrounding tissue stroma composed of collagen, elastin, melanocytes, nerves, smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, and resident immune cells. It is responsible for supplying the majority of the oxygen and nutritional demands to the outer retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)—regions of the eye with some of the highest metabolic demands within the body.
Metformin Use and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Patients Without Diabetes
Metformin Use and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Patients Without Diabetes Key Points Question Is there an association between the use of metformin and protection against the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) among patients without diabetes? Findings In this case-control study of 231 142 cases with AMD and 232 879 matched controls, none of whom had a diagnosis of diabetes, metformin use was associated with 17% lower odds of AMD development.
PACT-UK (PAncreatic Cancer reporting Template-UK): a cross-specialty multi-institutional consensus panel development of a standardised radiological reporting proforma for pancreatic cancer | BMJ Oncology
The appropriate radiological staging of pancreatic cancer is essential to ensure patients have the opportunity to access all treatment options. In particular, the extent of tumour involvement with adjacent vasculature is imperative when making decisions regarding surgical resection or alternatively adopting a neoadjuvant chemotherapeutic approach.
Metformin’s potential impact on AMD prevention
Take-home points Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, but current therapeutic tools for preventing or slowing progression are limited. Metformin is an oral medication commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes. It’s well-tolerated, broadly available, and has been suggested to have anti-aging properties, which make it an appealing possible candidate in the management of AMD.
Repurposing medications for treatment of age-related macular degeneration: Insights from novel approaches to data mining
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Racial differences in quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography findings between older non-diabetics with co-morbidities
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Abstract This cross-sectional study compared optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) parameters between older Black and White adults with systemic comorbidities in an effort to further understand racial differences in the retinal microvasculature.
SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study
SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3099-2197Sanjay Pandanaboyana1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3161-4713John Moir1, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5140-6225John S Leeds1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7381-7412Kofi Oppong1,3, Aditya Kanwar4, Ahmed Marzouk5, Ajay Belgaumkar6, Ajay Gupta7, Ajith K Siriwardena8, Ali Raza Haque9, Altaf Awan10, Anita Balakrishnan11, Arab Rawashdeh12,...
SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study
SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3099-2197Sanjay Pandanaboyana1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3161-4713John Moir1, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5140-6225John S Leeds1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7381-7412Kofi Oppong1,3, Aditya Kanwar4, Ahmed Marzouk5, Ajay Belgaumkar6, Ajay Gupta7, Ajith K Siriwardena8, Ali Raza Haque9, Altaf Awan10, Anita Balakrishnan11, Arab Rawashdeh12,...
SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study
SARS-CoV-2 infection in acute pancreatitis increases disease severity and 30-day mortality: COVID PAN collaborative study http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3099-2197Sanjay Pandanaboyana1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3161-4713John Moir1, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5140-6225John S Leeds1,2, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7381-7412Kofi Oppong1,3, Aditya Kanwar4, Ahmed Marzouk5, Ajay Belgaumkar6, Ajay Gupta7, Ajith K Siriwardena8, Ali Raza Haque9, Altaf Awan10, Anita Balakrishnan11, Arab Rawashdeh12,...
This Bird Lives Because She Never Quit
On a spring day in 2019, in a small cave tucked into a massive cliff in Zion National Park, a California Condor chick pecked its way free of its enormous egg. In the first days after the young bird emerged, its parents took turns cuddling their baby just as condors have done for tens of thousands of years. But this birth was anything but ordinary. That little bundle of fluff taking its first teetering steps on unsteady legs was the 1,000th chick born to the California Condor Recovery Program.
TFIID Enables RNA Polymerase II Promoter-Proximal Pausing
Highlights • Reconstitution of RNAPII pausing in vitro, with purified factors (no extracts) • Human PIC alone is sufficient to establish RNAPII pausing • TFIID is required for RNAPII promoter-proximal pausing • Rapid TFIID depletion induces RNAPII pause release genome-wide Summary RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription is governed by the pre-initiation complex (PIC), which contains TFIIA, TFIIB, TFIID, TFIIE, TFIIF, TFIIH, RNAPII, and Mediator.
An Economist for Nature Calculates the Need for More Protection
COTO BRUS, Costa Rica —Dawn is breaking over this remote upland region, where neat rows of coffee plants cover many of the hillsides. The rising tropical sun saturates the landscape with color, revealing islandlike remnants of native forest scattered among the coffee plantations. But across this bucolic countryside, trouble is brewing. An invasive African insect known as the coffee berry borer is threatening the area’s crops. Local farmers call the pest “la broca”:the borer.
California Condors May Face Threat From DDT
Photo AT RISK Condors at the Grand Canyon in 2004. Researchers were alarmed by abnormally thin eggshells in the wild. BIG SUR, Calif. — Four years ago, in a musky, leaf-lined cavity halfway up a 200-foot redwood tree here, two California condors made the region’s first known nesting attempt in more than a century.
How Northern Ireland can make it to the top in digital government
“Digital Transformation” has become synonymous with digital strategies throughout the world. It’s disruptive and drives change as a result of technological advancements that impacts customer behaviour patterns. When it comes to government, digital transformation prompts change within the whole service model, from staff structures to processes and procedures. Northern Ireland's move towards a digital government can be traced back to the launch of NI Direct in 2009.
Robotic Process Automation: threat or opportunity?
The robots are coming. But it’s ok. It’s not quite in the shape of a dystopian future that Hollywood would have us believe is around the corner. No need to send Arnie back to save us just yet. Automation of the workplace isn’t new. Society has previously faced the robotics challenge in manufacturing.
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