Academic Articles & Research Papers

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

Essential health care requires essential health technology, a technology which people can understand and which the non-expert can apply. The identification or generation of such technology forms part of the revolution in community health an...

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...

Mapping the acute trajectory of sport-related concussion outcomes across symptoms, cognition, and blood biomarkers

Sport-related concussion (SRC) and its potential neurological sequela represent an emerging global health concern, requiring improved recovery management and strategies for return-to-play (RTP) to enhance brain health in athletes. Given the...

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...

Altered Red Blood Cell Fatty Acid and Serum Adipokine Profiles in Subjects with Obesity

Background: Adipokines, as well as the fatty acid profile of red blood cell (RBC) membranes, are known to play important roles in the development and progression of metabolic complications induced by obesity. Thus, the objective of this stu...

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...

Health technology assessment

The aim of this paper was to describe exhaustively, but concisely, the matter of the health technology assessment. It is a method of evaluating health technologies based on principles and tools of Evidence Based Medicine. We started from et...

Understanding rice preferences and awareness of brown rice among persons with diabetes: A mixed methods study from South India

Polished white rice (WR), high in refined carbohydrates, the main staple in South India is associated with enhanced risk of diabetes. Brown Rice (BR), with lower glycemic load, high fibre content and micronutrients, is a healthier choice. T...

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...

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...

Editorial: Macrophage Metabolism and Immune Responses

Is SARS-CoV-2 a concern in the largest wastewater treatment plant in middle east?

The surveillance of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) as the end point of SARS-CoV-2 shed from infected people arise a speculation on transmission of this virus of concern from WWTP in epidemic period. To this end, the present study was dev...

Development of technology of plant species for complex mastopathy therapy

Introduction. At present, the range of medicines for the treatment of mastopathy is represented, for the most part, by foreign manufacturers, which are currently not economically available to the general population of Ukraine. Structure of ...

Time dynamics of symptom progression in patients with acute pancreatitis: a Dynamic Time Warping analysis

BackgroundAcute pancreatitis (AP) morbidity has been increasing in recent years. Patients with AP exhibit highly variable symptom patterns over time, posting challenges to traditional analytical methods. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) effective...

Depressive phenotype shapes behavioral, neuroendocrine and molecular responses to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in preclinical models of depression

IntroductionRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is an established non-invasive treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), yet its neurobiological mechanisms remain only partially understood. We investigated whether ...

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...

Health Technology Assessment

A challenge of health technology assessment is integrating the information from different disciplines. This talk focuses on the evidence-based medicine perspective and challenges 3 assumptions of health technology assessment: assumptions ab...

Metacognitive therapy versus cognitive–behavioral therapy in adults with generalized anxiety disorder: A 9‐year follow‐up study

Abstract Objective Metacognitive therapy (MCT) and cognitive–behavior therapy (CBT) are effective treatments for generalized anxiety disorder. In this study, we followed‐up patients who had previously participated in a randomized controlled...

Technology and innovation in global health leadership education: A new model

Correction: Aging, the microbiota–gut–brain axis, and late-life epilepsy: a hypothesis-driven review