Corneal trophic ulcer one week after topical diclofenac use by Piotr Lasota

“…A 65-year-old woman operated on for cataract was discharged from hospital with a routine prescription including diclofenac. One week later she was diagnosed with corneal trophic ulcer in the operated eye. …”
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Thrombophilia screening in women with recurrent first trimester miscarriage: is it time to stop testing? – a cohort study and systematic review of the literature by Hassan Shehata, Ranjit Akolekar, Amanda Ali, Mariane Silva-Edge, Shahla Haroon, Abdullatif Elfituri, Radhika Viswanatha, Haider Jan

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Partner conflict during their index pregnancy and its correlates among a cohort of six weeks postpartum women in Ethiopia by Solomon Abrha Damtew, Niguse Tadele Atnafu, Mahari Yihdego Gidey, Tesfamichael Awoke Sisay, Metages Yohannes

“…This study aimed at determining the prevalence of the IPV during the index pregnancy as measured at six weeks postpartum among women in their extended six weeks postpartum period and identify its correlates. …”
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Uptake and 4-week outcomes of an ‘opt-out’ smoking cessation referral strategy in a London-based lung cancer screening setting by Anthony Edey, Neal Navani, Kitty Chan, Graham Robinson, Janine Zylstra, Paul Robinson, Laura Green, Anand Devaraj, Jane Rowlands, Allan Hackshaw, Carolyn Horst, Arjun Nair, Sam M Janes, Kate Davies, Jeannie Eng, Mamta Ruparel, Samantha L Quaife, Jennifer L Dickson, Magali Taylor, Angshu Bhowmik, Hasti Robbie, Joseph Jacob, Laura Farrelly, Sophie Tisi, Tanya Patrick, Andrew Creamer, Helen Hall, Samanjit Hare, Jon Teague, Samuel M Janes, Esther Arthur-Darkwa, Thea Buchan, Stephen Ellis, Thomas Callender, Rachael Sarpong, John McCabe, Zaheer Mangera, Ethaar El-Emir, Terry O'Shaughnessy, Geoff Bellingan, Nick Screaton, Priyam Verghese, William M Ricketts, Vicky Bowyer, Kylie Gyertson, Fanta Bojang, Claire Levermore, Tania Anastasiadis, Ruth Prendecki, Amyn Bhamani, Malavika Suresh, Judy Airebamen, Alice Cotton, Kaylene Phua, Elodie Murali, Simranjit Mehta, Karen Parry-Billings, Columbus Ife, April Neville, Zahra Hanif, Helen Kiconco, Ricardo McEwen, Dominique Arancon, Nicholas Beech, Derya Ovayolu, Christine Hosein, Sylvia Patricia Enes, Qin April Neville, Aashna Samson, Urja Patel, Fahmida Hoque, Hina Pervez, Sofia Nnorom, Moksud Miah, Julian McKee, Mark Clark, Anant Patel, Sara Lock, Rajesh Banka, Ugo Ekeowa, Charlotte Cash, Tunku Aziz, Alberto Villanueva, Elena Stefan, Charlie Sayer, Navinah Nundlall, Andrew Crossingham, Tanita Limani, Kate Gowers, Andrew Perugia, James Rusius, Anne-Marie Hacker, Monica L Mullin, Evangelos Katsampouris, Chuen R Khaw, Chuen Khaw, Sheetal Karavadra, Alan Shaw, Chris Valerio, Ali Mohammed, Lynsey Gallagher, Mehran Azimbagirad, Burcu Ozaltin, Maureen Browne, Eleanor Hellier, Catherine Nestor

“…An appointment with the service was accepted by 47.3% (n=351/742) of individuals, following which 65.5% (n=230/351) set a quit date. The 4-week quit rate among those setting a quit date and all individuals referred was 57.4% (n=132/230) and 17.8% (n=132/742), respectively.Conclusion A proactive, ‘opt-out’ smoking cessation referral strategy for individuals currently smoking tobacco who interact with an LCS programme may be beneficial.…”
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Strength training for osteoporosis prevention during early menopause (STOP-EM): a pilot study protocol for a single centre randomised waitlisted control trial in Canada by Leigh Gabel, Lauren A Burt, Christina J Alexander, Leah Kaluta, Patrick W Whitman, Emma O Billington

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Effects of 12 Weekly Folk Dance Studıes on Some Physıcal Suıtabılıty Parameters of Works of Dıfferent Local Area in Prımary School Age Chıldren by Erdal Tasgin, Metin Özlü, Evrim Çakmakçı

“…Flexibility, Vertical Jumping, Stopping Long Jump, 20 m Sprint test values were evaluated before (pre-test) and end (test) 12 week application. …”
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Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking (YESS) study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of adding a personalised smoking cessation intervention to a lung... by Richard D Neal, David Baldwin, Sarah Lewis, John Britton, Rachael L Murray, Qi Wu, Kate Brain, Samantha L Quaife, Matthew EJ Callister, Philip A J Crosbie, Harriet D Quinn-Scoggins, Grace M McCutchan, Alex Ashurst, Suzanne Rogerson, Rebecca Thorley

“…The Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking study will measure the effectiveness of an SC service integrated within the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST) and will test the efficacy of a personalised SC intervention, incorporating incidental findings detected on the low-dose CT scan performed as part of YLST.Methods and analysis Unless explicitly declined, all smokers enrolled in YLST will see an SC practitioner at baseline and receive SC support over 4 weeks comprising behavioural support, pharmacotherapy and/or a commercially available e-cigarette. …”
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Associations between use of expressed human milk at 2 weeks postpartum and human milk feeding practices to 6 months: a prospective cohort study with vulnerable women in Toronto, Ca... by Cindy-Lee Dennis, Jane Francis, Alex Kiss, Deborah L O'Connor, Erica Di Ruggiero, Alison Mildon, Stacia Stewart, Bronwyn Underhill, Yi Man Ng, Christina Rousseau, Daniel W Sellen

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Impact of atrial fibrillation on productivity in working-age patients: an analysis of Swiss-AF prospective cohort study data by Helena Aebersold, Fabienne Foster-Witassek, Sina Amberg, Miquel Serra-Burriel, Giorgio Moschovitis, Raffaele Zannoni, Stefanie Aeschbacher, Giulio Conte, Jürg H. Beer, Eva Blozik, Leo H. Bonati, David Conen, Stefan Felder, Moa L. Haller, Philipp Krisai, Michael Kühne, Rebecca E. Paladini, Tobias Reichlin, Nicolas Rodondi, Christian Sticherling, Thomas Szucs, Yuki Tomonaga, Stefan Osswald, Matthias Schwenkglenks

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Influence of Medication on Flare Up and Infection After Elective Orthopedic Surgery in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient – A Narrative Review by Yaldi Rosadi, Yustin Marinta, Muthiah Nur Afifah

“…One retrospective study that the incidence of flares tends to be higher among the group of patients who received MTX therapy and stopped more than one week before surgery than the group who did not stop. …”
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Pyrethroid as a Substance of Abuse by Pravesh Sharma, Stephen Manning, Regina Baronia, Saira Mushtaq

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Reactive agility training to prevent frailty in older adults – a randomized controlled trial. by Eric Lichtenstein, Martin Keller, Ralf Roth, Sebastian Ludyga, Oliver Faude

“…The AT program, conducted over a period of 16 weeks (twice per week), involved tasks that progressed in complexity and placed high demands on cognitive skills, strength, balance by applying reactive light systems. …”
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Oral dydrogesterone versus oral micronized progesterone in threatened miscarriage: protocol paper for a randomized controlled trial by Alka Kriplani, Gouri Shankar Kamilya, T Ramani Devi, Ashima Taneja, Amol Pawar, Gayathri Karthik Nagesh, Tapan Pattanaik, Tanusree Gupta, Mahima Jain, Monjori Mitra

“…A total of 304 eligible pregnant women aged 20–39 years, diagnosed with threatened miscarriage, will be enrolled during 5–12 weeks of gestation and randomized equally to receive either oral dydrogesterone (40 mg stat, followed by 10 mg three times a day) or oral micronized progesterone (200 mg two times a day) up to one week after stoppage of bleeding or if bleeding does not stop, then treatment will be continued till a maximum of 14 weeks of gestation (unless miscarriage is confirmed earlier or the investigator decides to prolong treatment for better outcome or if bleeding relapses). …”
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Safety and efficacy of telaprevir in treatment of a chronic hepatitis C in patients of the Russian population included in early access program study by D. T. Abrurakhmanov, V. G. Morozov, I. G. Nikitin, P. O. Bogomolov, N. I. Geyvandova, Ye. N. Bessonova, I. G. Bakulin, V. A. Isakov, K. V. Zhdanov, M. V. Mayevskaya, Ye. A. Nurmukhametova, E. Z. Burnevich, Ye. V. Chesnokov, V. D. Pasechnikov, A. Hill, I. Lonjon-Domanec, S. N. Kizhlo

“…Efficacy and safety of this therapeutic mode were evaluated in intermediate analysis on 16-th week of treatment in 153 patients from Russia who have already reached the 16-th week of treatment or potentially can do so.Material and methods. …”
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Discurso sobre las mujeres, a las mujeres y de mujeres en el semanario anarquista El Corsario. A Coruña, 1890-1896 by Gérard Brey

“…El Corsario, a weekly journal published in A Coruña from May 1890, is one of the few spokespaper of the Spanish anarchist movement during the last decade of the 19th century. …”
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Successful pregnancy of an SMA type 3 sitter on Nusinersen therapy - a case report by Miriam Hiebeler, Simone Thiele, Maggie C. Walter

“…The last dose was administered in the third gestational week. After pregnancy was confirmed, therapy was stopped immediately. …”
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When specific exercise is more effective than medication - Sensorimotor training is currently the most promising option to treat and prevent chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropa... by Fiona Streckmann, Maryam Balke, Céline Hammadou, Bianca Schmidli, Oliver Faude, Sarah Koch

“…Methods we performed a prospective multicenter randomized clinical trial (STOP) and followed up patients over 5 years (May 2014 – Nov. 2020) at 4 centers and around Cologne, Germany. …”
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Enhancement of systemic and lung-localized CD4⁺ T-cell immune responses by truncation of NS1 protein of a seasonal live influenza vaccine strain by Polina I. Prokopenko, Ekaterina A. Stepanova, Victoria A. Matyushenko, Alexandra Ya. Rak, Anna K. Chistyakova, Arina D. Kostromitina, Tatyana S. Kotomina, Igor V. Kudryavtsev, Artem A. Rubinstein, Alexey S. Komlev, Larisa G. Rudenko, Irina N. Isakova-Sivak

“…Using reverse genetics technique, two H1N1 LAIV strains with full-length and truncated NS1 protein with three consecutive stop codons added after the 126th amino acid residue were obtained.C57BL/6J mice were immunized intranasally with the vaccine candidates, twice at a three-week interval. …”
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Hepatitis C Virus Clearance after Discontinuation of Pegylated Interferon Alpha-2a Monotherapy in a Child by Takeshi Endo, Koichi Ito, Tokio Sugiura, Kenji Goto

“…The patient began antiviral treatment with pegylated interferon alpha 2a (90 μg/week). At week 9, serum HCV RNA became undetectable, with a sensitivity of 50 copies/mL. …”
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Oral 5-Aminosalicyclic Acid Versus 6-Methylprednisolone in Active Crohn's Disease by Jürgen Schölmerich, Harro Jenss, Franz Hartmann, Hanne Döpfer, The German 5-ASA Study Group

“…Thirty were treated with 500 mg 5-ASA qid and 32 with methylprednisolone (starting dose 48 mg for one week, then reduced weekly to 32, 24, 20, 16 and 12 mg with maintenance at 8 mg/day for the remaining 18 weeks). …”
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