anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
More than 2100 pregnant women per annum deliver their babies at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the lone publicly-funded hospital providing secondary and tertiary-level obstetric care in Barbados. Routinely recorded data do not capture whether patients are overweight or obese. Thus, the prevalence of obesity is not known amongst this population. Additionally, these women are not routinely referred for dietician services, and thus the impact of dietician intervention is not known. The aim of this research is to determine whether a dietitian-led intervention could lead to decreased gestational weight gain and less incidence of foetal macrosomia in a sample of Barbadian women, with class II obesity, attending a public antenatal clinic. Prior studies examining gestational weight gain, found no statistically significance between groups when a BMI of 30 was used. It is hoped that by using a group with higher obesity a larger difference will be seen with the intervention. Participants with body mass index greater than 35kg/m\^2 who meet the eligibility criteria will be selected from one of five antenatal clinics at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the island of Barbados. They will be randomised to either receive didactic dietary sessions or a standard education tool. Mean weight change will be compared amongst the two groups after delivery to determine if there was a decrease in gestational weight gain amongst the intervention group.
PURPOSE: The association between perioperative and post-adjuvant carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels and recurrence and prognosis remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate whether perioperative CEA levels are an integral component of the assessment of recurrence and prognosis of patients with stage III colon cancer (CC).
METHODS: This retrospective study was conducted at the Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research from 2005 to 2013. We enrolled patients with stage III CC who underwent complete resection of a primary tumor and received adjuvant chemotherapy. We analyzed the association between perioperative and post-adjuvant CEA levels and recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS).
RESULTS: A total of 564 consecutive patients were included in the analysis. The RFS and OS of patients with high postoperative CEA levels were significantly worse than those of patients with normal postoperative CEA levels. In the multivariate analysis, high postoperative CEA levels were associated with shorter RFS and OS. The number of risk factors, postoperative CEA levels, and T/N-stage all had a cumulative effect on RFS and OS.
CONCLUSIONS: High postoperative CEA levels and the number of risk factors are associated with recurrence and worse prognosis for patients with stage III CC.
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a hair grower raw material which has an excellent hair- growing effect, does not give an undesirable irritation to scalp, and is safe, by compounding wedelolactone. SOLUTION: This hair grower raw material comprises wedelolactone of the formula. The wedelolactone originated from a natural product can be obtained, for example, from a plant such as Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk. A solvent extract of the Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk can efficiently be purified by a method comprising reextracting the solvent extract of the Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk with an alkaline solution, neutralizing or acidifying the aqueous layer, treating the obtained precipitates with an organic solvent, and then purifying the organic solvent-soluble fraction by chromatography. A hair grower composition includes cosmetics, medicines and quasi medicines which contain the hair grower raw material. The wedelolactone is contained in the composition in an amount of preferably 0.0001 to 10 wt.%, more preferably 0.001 to 5 wt.%.
Penicillamine is absorbed rapidly but incompletely (40-70%) from the gastrointestinal tract, with wide inter-individual variations. Food, antacids, and iron reduce absorption of the drug. The peak plasma concentration of penicillamine occurs 1 to 3 hours after ingestion; it is approximately 1 to 2 mg/L after an oral dose of 250 mg. The drug appears in the plasma as free penicillamine, penicillamine disulfide, and cysteine-penicillamine disulfide. When prolonged treatment is stopped, there is a slow elimination phase lasting 4 to 6 days.

More than 80% of plasma penicillamine is bound to proteins, especially albumin and ceruloplasmin. The drug also binds to erythrocytes and macrophages. A small fraction of the dose is metabolized in the liver to S-methyl-D-penicillamine. Excretion is mainly renal, mainly as disulfides.
PURPOSE:The titled product useful as a drug or a food, etc. effective for psychosomatic diseases, etc., promoting adrenocortial hormone production, controlling normally its metabolism rhythm within day, comprising ginsenoside Rb1, ginsenoside Rg1, etc. as essential components. CONSTITUTION:Panax schinseng Nees, etc. is not defatted, or defatted with a common fat-soluble organic solvent, its effective component isextracted with water and/or a lower fatty alcohol, and the extracted solution is evaporated and concentrated to give an extracted essence. It is dissolved in n-butanol, insoluble substances are removed, and the n-butanol layer is evaporated to dryness. Further, it is treated with a nonionic absorption resin, subjected to liquid chromatography, ginsenoside Rb1 shown by the formula I and ginsenoside Rg1 shown by the formula II are separated, and they are prepared as essential components, to give the aimed drug, etc.
NASH is the most common cause of chronic liver disease, and it is estimated that 40-50% of patients with obesity and T2DM have NASH. NASH can lead to HCC with the risk increasing 2-3 fold in patient with poor glycemic control. Unless caught early, HCC has a poor prognosis with no effective therapies. A unique feature of HCC in NASH is that it often arises at a pre-cirrhotic stage, and the prognosis is often dismal. There are no current surveillance strategies for these pre-cirrhotic patients. Based on our animal models and pilot patient studies, we developed a novel paradigm that linked liver matrix changes to a more aggressive HCC phenotype. Our goal is to develop an imaging-based surveillance tool that will identify early matrix changes that may predispose to HCC.
Iron overload and cellular senescence have been implicated in liver fibrosis, but their possible mechanistic connection has not been explored. To address this, we have delved into the role of iron and senescence in an experimental model of chronic liver injury, analyzing whether an iron chelator would prevent liver fibrosis by decreasing hepatocyte senescence. The model of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in mice was used as an experimental model of liver fibrosis. Results demonstrated that during the progression of liver fibrosis, accumulation of iron occurs, concomitant with the appearance of fibrotic areas and cells undergoing senescence. Isolated parenchymal hepatocytes from CCl4-treated mice present a gene transcriptomic signature compatible with iron accumulation and senescence, which correlates with induction of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)-related genes, activation of the Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF-β) pathway and inhibition of oxidative metabolism. Analysis of the iron-related gene signature in a published single-cell RNA-seq dataset from CCl4-treated livers showed iron accumulation correlating with senescence in other non-parenchymal liver cells. Treatment with deferiprone, an iron chelator, attenuated iron accumulation, fibrosis and senescence, concomitant with relevant changes in the senescent-associated secretome (SASP), which switched toward a more anti-inflammatory profile of cytokines. In vitro experiments in human hepatocyte HH4 cells demonstrated that iron accumulates in response to a senescence-inducing reagent, doxorubicin, being deferiprone able to prevent senescence and SASP, attenuating growth arrest and cell death. However, deferiprone did not significantly affect senescence induced by two different agents (doxorubicin and deoxycholic acid) or activation markers in human hepatic stellate LX-2 cells. Transcriptomic data from patients with different etiologies demonstrated the relevance of iron accumulation in the progression of liver chronic damage and fibrosis, correlating with a SASP-related gene signature and pivotal hallmarks of fibrotic changes. Altogether, our study establishes iron accumulation as a clinically exploitable driver to attenuate pathological senescence in hepatocytes.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a common chronic respiratory disease with high prevalence, high mortality rate, high disability rate and heavy disease burden, seriously endangering people\'s health. The prevalence of COPD among people aged 40 and above in China is 13.7%, with nearly 100 million patients. The situation of high prevalence, high mortality, and high disability is not matched by the low awareness rate, low lung function test rate, and low treatment rate, which is a serious situation for prevention and control. 2021 edition of 'Global Initiative on Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)' puts forward the concept of pre-COPD, which indicates that the concept of prevention and treatment of COPD has begun to change to prevention and early intervention, and is also related to the concept of intermediate medicine. The concept of pre-COPD has been proposed in the 2021 edition of GOLD, indicating that the concept of prevention and treatment of COPD has begun to shift towards prevention and early intervention, which is also in line with the idea of 'treating the disease before it is diagnosed' in TCM. Chinese medicine has certain advantages in the prevention and treatment of COPD. Currently, there is a lack of TCM diagnostic and treatment protocols for the early stage of COPD, and TCM diagnostic and treatment protocols for the stable stage of COPD need to be optimised. Therefore, based on the Chinese COPD registry management system, this study took the pre-CPD population and stable stage patients as the research object, and used the standardised use of Chinese medicine diagnostic and treatment protocols as the exposure factor to carry out a multicentre prospective cohort study, with a follow-up of 2 years, using the morbidity rate, the rate of decline in lung function FEV1, etc., to evaluate the efficacy of Chinese medicine diagnostic and treatment protocols for pre-COPD, and using the rate of occurrence of acute exacerbation, The efficacy of TCM treatment protocols for patients with stable COPD was further evaluated using the incidence of acute exacerbation and quality of survival. This will provide high-quality evidence-based medical evidence for the prevention and treatment of COPD by TCM.
A photodynamic composition and a method for in vivo photonic treatments that is minimally invasive, versatile and precise are described. The invention allows for photonic treatments with only minimal insertions into the area of treatment, often a single one. The invention may be used with a standard insertion component making the system inexpensive and easy for doctors to use. The invention has applications in several areas of treatment. In vivo treatment of aesthetic skin blemishes such as varicose veins can be performed with minimal external effects. A predetermined amount of a photodynamic composition, as a foam, is injected into the vein or structure of concern. The composition is a sclerosis foam including a photosensitizer. By external compression, where applicable, the photodynamic composition is forced to remain in the vein or structure. After a predetermined time, radiation of appropriate wavelength from a light source is delivered directly to the vascular structure. Among the key benefits of the present invention are the elimination of targeted varicose veins, without need for anesthesia along the length of the vein; no edema; no skin reaction; and tactile appreciation.
In clinical trials, dyspnea was reported by 3%, 1%, and < 1% of the treated CIC, OIC, and IBS-C populations receiving lubiprostone, respectively, compared to 0%, 1%, and < 1% of placebo-treated patients. There have been postmarketing reports of dyspnea when using lubiprostone 24 mcg twice daily. Some patients have discontinued treatment because of dyspnea. These events have usually been described as a sensation of chest tightness and difficulty taking in a breath, and generally have an acute onset within 30 to 60 minutes after taking the first dose. They generally resolve within a few hours after taking the dose, but recurrence has been frequently reported with subsequent doses. Instruct patients to contact their healthcare provider if dyspnea occurs.
All patients received doxorubicin 60 mg/m2 and cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2 (AC) both administered intravenously day 1 every 3 weeks for four cycles, followed by paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 intravenously day 1 every 3 weeks for four cycles or 80 mg/m2 for twelve weeks (physician discretion), combined with sorafenib 400 mg orally twice daily. Sorafenib was held during radiation therapy where indicated and resumed once completed. Sorafenib was continued for a total of 12 months and in combination with adjuvant hormonal therapy where indicated.
This is a multicenter, open-label (all people know the identity of the intervention), 2-group, single dose study. Within each group of participants for Parts 1 and 2, at least 1/3 of the participants will be female, at least 1/3 of the participants will be male, at least 1/3 of the participants will be below the age of 8 years, and at least 1/3 of the participants will be above the age of 10 years. Participants will be assigned to 1 group only. Each group of participants will receive a single oral dose of ULTRAM ER on 1 occasion. Group 1 will receive a dose of ULTRAM ER that is closest to 2 mg/kg, based on the participant's body weight and adjusting the dose in 25 mg increments. Following completion of all evaluations of Group 1, the pharmacokinetic data will be evaluated to target a dose for Group 2 that will achieve a level of exposure similar to that seen with a single 200 mg ULTRAM ER dose in adults. The maximum dose of ULTRAM ER should not exceed 6 mg/kg or 300 mg. When the study physician, the investigators, and the medical monitors agree that the PK of the drug is well-characterized and that the drug is well tolerated, enrollment will begin for Group 2 of the study. The sponsor's responsible Medical Officer will evaluate the safety of the calculated dose in Group 2 participants by evaluation of adverse drug events paying particular attention to events suggestive of either opioid toxicity or serotonin toxicity.
Preoperative anemia is the most common haematological abnormalities in cardiac surgery affecting 20 to 40% of patients and is becoming increasingly prevalent due to an ageing population with more chronic diseases.Preoperative anemia is independently associated with increased risk of adverse outcome following cardiac surgery but also implies blood transfusions which, associated with anemia, increase significantly perioperative cardiac morbidity and mortality. Therefore, strategies of blood conservation to optimize anemia and to minimize transfusion have been developped in the concept of the Blood Patient Management (BPM). To correct anemia, intravenous iron has been shown to be an effective treatment with increase hemoglobin (Hb) level in the perioperative period. It is now established that intravenous iron, as ferric carboxymaltose (Ferinject) is better tolerated compared to oral supplementation with better stimulation of erythropoiesis and,consequently, higher Hb levels. Based on promising results in the orthopedic surgery patients, the use of recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) has also been proposed in cardiac surgery. Secondly, because even one red blood cells products (RBC) compromises postoperative outcome, guidelines suggest to adopt restrictive threshold of Hb levels to decide RBC transfusion. However, beyond the fact that RBC transfusion correct Hb level, the final goal of blood transfusion is to improve oxygen delivery to hypoxemic tissue. In this respect, the relevance of the use of a Hb threshold to guide transfusion have been questioned. Venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) and ScvO2 (central oxygen venous saturation), global parameters of tissue oxygenation, in stable hemodynamic and respiratory conditions, may be an relevant marker of anemia tolerance. Recently, the investigators demonstrated the lack of benefit in terms of ScvO2 increase during erythrocyte transfusion if ScvO2 was \> 65%.

In order to reduce exposure to transfusion, the management of anemia with EPO and perioperative intravenous FCM associated with the use of ScvO2 could be interesting to both improve Hb levels and reduce RBC transfusion.
Recommended starting dosage is 25 mcg daily. Daily dosage then may be increased by up to 25 mcg every 1 or 2 weeks. Usual maintenance dose is 25 to 75 mcg daily.

The rapid onset and dissipation of action of liothyronine sodium (T3), as compared with levothyroxine sodium (T4), has led some clinicians to prefer its use in patients who might be more susceptible to the untoward effects of thyroid medication. However, the wide swings in serum T3 levels that follow its administration and the possibility of more pronounced cardiovascular side effects tend to counterbalance the stated advantages.

Liothyronine Sodium Tablets, USP may be used in preference to levothyroxine (T4) during radioisotope scanning procedures, since induction of hypothyroidism in those cases is more abrupt and can be of shorter duration. It may also be preferred when impairment of peripheral conversion of T4 to T3 is suspected.
Elucidating the relationship between specific intestinal bacteria, dietary intake, and the health of the host remains a primary goal for gut microbiome research. Prebiotics, substrates that are selectively used by microorganisms to promote the health of the host, present an appealing therapeutic option. We performed correlation analysis to identify relationships between health parameters and populations of gut bacteria in participants from a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial testing the effects of a prebiotic digestion resistant potato starch (DRS; MSPrebiotic®). This study focused on the abundance of Parasutterella (phylum Proteobacteria), which tended to increase in the gut microbiome of individuals consuming DRS. Increases in Parasutterella were correlated with reductions in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels in participants consuming DRS but not placebo. Segregating DRS-consuming individuals based on whether LDL levels decreased revealed that DRS-consuming individuals who displayed improved LDL levels had significantly higher baseline levels of Parasutterella. Taken together, our analyses suggest that DRS may help improve LDL levels depending on the initial ecological composition of an individual's gut microbiome.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has proven effective therapy for individuals with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) or globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD, or Krabbe disease). However, for patients with advanced or rapidly progressive disease, the morbidity and mortality with transplantation is unacceptably high. Unfortunately, there are no viable alternative therapeutic options for these patients; if transplantation is not performed the patients are sent home to die. Our group at Minnesota has developed a new protocol incorporating transplantation using a reduced intensity conditioning regimen designed to decrease toxicity associated with the transplant procedure. This regimen will make use of the drug clofarabine, which has lympholytic and immune suppressive properties without the neurologic toxicity observed in the related compound, fludarabine, commonly used for transplantation. In addition, several agents providing anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties will be used to assist in the stabilization of the disease processes. This revised transplant protocol will test the following: 1) the ability to achieve engraftment with the reduced intensity protocol, 2) the mortality associated with transplant by day 100, 3) patient outcomes, based on differential neurologic, neuropsychologic, imaging and biologic evaluations prior to transplantation and at designated points after transplantation (day 100, 6 months, 1, 2 and 5 years). Additional biologic studies will include pharmacokinetics of clofarabine and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), develop experience in kinetics of N-acetylcysteine, and evaluate biologic markers of oxidative status during transplantation. In addition, for patients undergoing lumbar puncture studies, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) will be requested for determinations of biologic parameters.
Participants will receive oral doses of two Acetaminophen/Naproxen Sodium Fixed Combination tablets taken with water. Multiple doses will be administered over a 48-hour period.
Subject's glucose and insulin data will be transferred to the DreaMed Advisor Pro system. Optimization of insulin treatment plan will be done using the DreaMed Advisor Pro Decision Support System-MDI algorithm. During the feasibility segment an approval of the study physician (may override the suggestions for safety reasons) will be required prior to sending the recomendations to participants. During the Proof of Concept segment, the recomendations will be sent directly to participants. Participants will be asked to follow the tretment plan for the following 2.5 weeks.
Adjuvant 5-FU based concurrent chemoradiotherapy and chemotherapy is the standard care for locally advanced stage II-III rectal cancer, based on several randomized Phase III clinical trials. With this standard treatment, 5-year local failure rate and distant metastasis rate is 10% and around 35%, respectively. Capecitabine, an analog of 5-fluoruracil (5FU), was demonstrated to have similar treatment results compared to 5-FU, but have much lower toxicities. Oxaliplatin based chemotherapy, also showed a better disease-free survival rate compared with 5-FU based-regimen. So far, some Phase I/II studies have shown the safety and preliminary results of either concurrent chemotherapy of capecitabine or oxaliplatin and capecitabine. The long-term results in comparison of capecitabine concurrent chemoradiotherapy with oxaliplatin/capecitabine concurrent chemoradiotherapy need to be further analyzed.
Participants are women with a diagnosis of early stage breast cancer (ESBC), a BMI ≥25, and insomnia. A total of 30 participants will be randomized to either cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and behavioral weight loss (CBT-I+BWL) or a sleep education program and behavioral weight loss (EDU+BWL). Measures will be collected at baseline, 8 weeks (after the CBT-I or EDU program) and at 3 and 6 months after starting BWL. The primary outcome will be % total weight loss. Additionally, eating behaviors, physical activity, and sleep parameters will be carefully assessed.

The sleep intervention phase of the study includes 6 sessions over 8 weeks (2 in-person, followed by 4 phone or videoconferencing sessions), and the BWL intervention includes 15 sessions over 6 months (1 in-person, 14 by phone or videoconference). Participants will be given physical activity trackers and will use a dietary app to record their food intake. There are 4 in-person assessment visits (baseline/randomization, 8-week follow up, 3-month follow up, 6-month follow up). These assessment visits are coordinated with in-person sleep and weight loss intervention visits. Some of the measures that will be recorded throughout the study include: height, weight, anthropometric measures (waist/hip measurements), sleep diaries, and self-report measures.