Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Role of Health Technology and Informatics in a Global Public Health Emergency: Practices and Implications From the COVID-19 Pandemic

At present, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading around the world. It is a critical and important task to take thorough efforts to prevent and control the pandemic. Compared with severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East ...

Innovative polymer-based electrochemical platform for detecting ESAT-6 in human blood for pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), necessitates early diagnosis for effective patient care. Despite advancements in TB diagnostics, there remains an urgent need to discover innovative non-sputum-based m...

Establishment of two human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from familial long QT syndrome type 1 patients carrying KCNQ1 mutation

Long QT syndrome type 1 (LQT1) is a rare heart disorder caused by a loss-of-function mutation in the KCNQ1 gene that causes loss of Kv7.1 channel function, which can lead to Palpitations, Syncope, and Sudden cardiac arrest. We derived induc...

Effects on Dopaminergic Neurons Are Secondary in COX-Deficient Locomotor Dysfunction in Drosophila

Summary: Dopaminergic (DA) neurons have been implicated as key targets in neurological disorders, notably those involving locomotor impairment, and are considered to be highly vulnerable to mitochondrial dysfunction, a common feature of suc...

Mobile Health Technologies in Cardiopulmonary Disease

Serum amyloid beta 42 levels correlated with metabolic syndrome and its components

IntroductionBeta-amyloid accumulation in the brain appears to be a key initiating event in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and factors associated with increased deposition of beta-amyloid are of great interest. Enhanced deposition of amyloid-β pe...

Tecnologia educacional como estratégia de empoderamento de pessoas com enfermidades crônicas [Educational technology as a strategy for the empowerment of people with chronic illnesses]

Os objetivos deste estudo foram: desenvolver o trabalho em grupo a fim de conhecer o cotidiano e o processo saúde/adoecimento/cuidado das pessoas com enfermidades crônicas; e analisar se o trabalho de grupo potencializou o empoderamento e q...

Conserved lipid-facing basic residues promote the insertion of the porin OmpC into the E. coli outer membrane

ABSTRACT Almost all integral membrane proteins that reside in the outer membrane (OM) of gram-negative bacteria contain a closed amphipathic β sheet (“β barrel”) that serves as a membrane anchor. The membrane integration of β barrel structu...

Green synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles through the Piper cubeba ethanolic extract and their enzyme inhibitory activities

Introduction: The area of “Green Synthesis of Nano-medicine,” as compared to its synthetic counterparts, is a relatively safer research technology for various biomedical applications, including identification, therapeutic application, and p...

Change in lifestyle with health technology

To preserve excellent health and prevent chronic diseases, one must adopt a healthy lifestyle. Yet, altering one's way of life can be difficult, particularly without the necessary resources and assistance. Luckily, new opportunities to enco...

Innovative Health Technologies and the Social: Redefining Health, Medicine and the Body

This paper explores the growth and social implications of what are regarded as highly innovative technologies in health. Conventional medical sociology and the sociology of health have had a very uneven engagement with technology, apart fro...

Inequities in Health Care Services Caused by the Adoption of Digital Health Technologies: Scoping Review

BACKGROUND: Digital health technologies (ie, the integration of digital technology and health information) aim to increase the efficiency of health care delivery; they are rapidly adapting to health care contexts to provide improved medical...

Health Technology Assessment in Osteoporosis

We review the various aspects of health technology assessment in osteoporosis, including epidemiology and burden of disease, and assessment of the cost-effectiveness of recent advances in the treatment of osteoporosis and the prevention of ...

Fine mapping of QYrsv.swust-1BL for resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat Svevo

Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a serious disease that affects wheat worldwide. There is a great need to develop cultivars with combinations of all-stage resistance (ASR) and adult-plant resistance (APR)...

Identification of Specific IgE Antibodies and Asthma Control Interaction and Association Using Cluster Analysis in a Bulgarian Asthmatic Children Cohort

(1) Background: Asthma is a complex heterogeneous disease that likely comprises several distinct disease phenotypes, where the clustering approach has been used to classify the heterogeneous asthma population into distinct phenotypes; (2) M...

MUT-7 Provides Molecular Insight into the Werner Syndrome Exonuclease

Werner syndrome (WS) is a rare recessive genetic disease characterized by premature aging. Individuals with this disorder develop normally during childhood, but their physiological conditions exacerbate the aging process in late adolescence...

The effectiveness of M-health technologies for improving health and health services: a systematic review protocol

BACKGROUND: The application of mobile computing and communication technology is rapidly expanding in the fields of health care and public health. This systematic review will summarise the evidence for the effectiveness of mobile technology ...

Health technology transfer

Global health relies on biomedical scientists and public health workers to solve infectious disease and other health problems at a local level. Yet investigators in developing countries face tremendous obstacles; scientific isolation, insuf...

Health technology: challenge to public health.

Health technology includes drugs, procedures, techniques, and equipment used by health professionals to provide health care, and the organizational and supporting systems within which the care is delivered. Such new technology may comprehen...

MBOAT7-TMC4 rs641738 Is Not Associated With the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma or Persistent Hepatitis B Infection

ObjectiveA hot genetic variant, rs641738 within the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain containing 7(MBOAT7) and transmembrane channel-like 4 (TMC4), was recently reported to be associated with several liver diseases. However, the resul...