Breast Implant Illness May Be Rooted in Mast Cell Activation: A Case-Controlled Retrospective Analysis by Èva S. Nagy, BMedSci(Hons), MBBS, PhD, FRACS, Grad Cert (Breast Surgery), Mark Westaway, MBBS, DCH, Grad Dip Allergy, Suzanne Danieletto, BSc, MBBS (Hons), FRCPA, MIAC, Lawrence B. Afrin, MD

“…Given that neoantigenic/xenobiotic exposures commonly trigger dysfunctional MCs in MCAS to heighten aberrant mediator expression driving inflammatory and other issues, further investigation of whether BII represents an implant-driven escalation of preexisting MCAS and whether an MCAS diagnosis flags risk for BII seems warranted.…”
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Identifying Fraudulent Responses in a Study Exploring Delivery Options for Pregnancies Impacted by Gestational Diabetes: Lessons Learned From a Web-Based Survey by Emma Ruby, Serine Ramlawi, Alexa Clare Bowie, Stephanie Boyd, Alysha Dingwall-Harvey, Ruth Rennicks White, Darine El-Chaâr, Mark Walker

“…Systematic filtering flagged numerous fraudulent responses. We identified fraudulent responses based on criteria including, but not limited to, identical timestamps and responses, responses with slight variations in wording and similar timestamps, and fraudulent email addresses. …”
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Are female athlete specific health considerations being assessed and addressed in preparticipation examinations? A scoping review and proposed framework by Jenna M. Schulz, Lois Pohlod, Samantha Myers, Jason Chung, Jane S. Thornton

“…A lack of female athlete specific health questions could result in missed red flags and subsequent injury or illness. As such, the objectives of this scoping review were to (a) determine what female athlete specific health questions currently exist in PPEs in the scientific literature to prevent injury and illness, and (b) map the results against the health domains outlined in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement supplement on the female athlete. …”
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Evaluation of the Management of Patients with Detectable Viral Load after the Implementation of Routine Viral Load Monitoring in an Urban HIV Clinic in Uganda by Nsumba Steven Mark, Musomba Rachel, Arvind Kaimal, Mubiru Frank, Tibakabikoba Harriet, Lwanga Isaac, Mohammed Lamorde, Castelnuovo Barbara

“…As per internal clinic guidelines, VL results >1,000 copies/ml are flagged by a quality assurance officer and sent to the requesting clinician. …”
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A role for qualitative methods in researching Twitter data on a popular science article's communication by Travis Noakes, Corrie Susanna Uys, Patricia Ann Harpur, Izak van Zyl

“…Meta-inferences were then drawn by integrating the findings from the two methods. These flagged the significance of contextualizing the sharing of a health science article in relation to tweeters' professional identities and their stances on health-related issues. …”
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Continuous overnight monitoring of body temperature during embryo transfer cycles as a proxy for establishing progesterone fluctuations by comparison with P4 blood progesterone res... by T.G. Knowles, J.A. García-Velasco, M. Toribio, N. Garrido, A.I. Barrio Pedraza, C. Colomé Rakosnik, A. Salazar Vera, R. Milnes

“…Further graphical analyses showed an apparent lower luteal level of P4 for cycles flagged as atypical by OvuSense, and for negative outcomes, except on embryo transfer day. …”
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Enhancing Clinical Confidence: Effects of Medical Screening and Differential Diagnosis Training for Low Back Pain by Shavit R, Kushnir T, Nudelman Y, Springer S

“…The intervention included 40-hours of training on medical screening and differential diagnosis, focusing on red flags, clinical reasoning and referral pathways, while the control group received no intervention. …”
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First evidence of transovarial transmission of Kyasanur Forest disease virus in Haemaphysalis and Rhipicephalus ticks in the wild by Sarah J. Burthe, Bhimanagoud Kumbar, Stefanie M. Schäfer, Bethan V. Purse, Abi T. Vanak, Natrajan Balakrishnan, Richard Hassall, Subhash L. Hoti, Darshan Narayanaswamy, Santoshkumar Potadar, Mujeeb Rahman, Mohammed Mudassar Chanda

“…Methods Ticks were sampled by dragging and flagging across a broad range of habitats within the agro-forest matrix at 49 sites in two districts: Shivamogga, Karnataka and Wayanad, Kerala (September 2018-March 2019), and larvae were tested for KFDV by PCR. …”
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Termination of Repeat Testing in Chemical Laboratories Based on Practice Guidelines: Examining the Effect of Rule-Based Repeat Testing in a Transplantation Center by Neda Soleimani, Amir Azadi, Mohammad Javad Esmaeili, Fatemeh Ghodsi, Reza Ghahramani, Azadeh Hafezi, Tayebeh Hosseyni, Arezoo Arabzadeh, Samira khajeh, Mahsa Farhadi, Sahand Mohammadzadeh

“…All causes of repeat testing, including linearity flags, delta checks, clinically significant values, and critical values, were also documented. …”
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