anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
Current standard post-operative care for expander-implant breast reconstruction surgery consists of conventional pain medications including narcotics (like morphine, etc.) and sedatives (like valium). Patients will receive through an injection into the chest 10 ml (about 2 teaspoons) of 0.5% bupivacaine during surgery. Injections will be done intramuscularly to the main chest muscle (pectoralis major) by the surgeon.
The overall goal of the proposed health services research project is to improve the outcome of medical care for injection drug users (IDUs) with Hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection. This will be done by testing an intervention designed to improve the rate of HCV treatment completion and sustained virologic response (SVR) in IDUs. This intervention will increase access by integrating HCV medical care into a substance abuse treatment program. HCV infection is endemic among IDUs, and is associated with significant medical morbidity. While antiviral treatments are improving rapidly, providing HCV medical care for IDUs remains problematic for a number of reasons. IDUs often do not have adequate access to HCV diagnosis and treatment services, and they may have co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses that affect the ability to withstand the demands of HCV treatment. Therefore, this study will also examine psychiatric disorders and psychiatric symptoms in IDUs who are infected with Hepatitis C virus.

The proposed project is a five-year program consisting of a controlled clinical trial, studying 220 patients with HCV infection enrolled in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). The HCV Medical Care Study is a randomized trial to test the efficacy of On-site HCV Medical Care provided at the MMT program versus Off-site care at the Gastroenterology (GI) Clinic. HCV antibody positive MMT patients (N=220) will be randomly assigned to receive HCV medical services either through an integrated delivery model located on-site in the MMT clinic, or through usual off-site referral to the GI Clinic. The main outcomes will be the rates of attaining SVR and completion of HCV treatment, as well as other measures of HCV-related health outcomes and quality of life. Participants will be evaluated for Axis I psychiatric diagnoses and will complete psychiatric measures at monthly intervals throughout the study. Psychiatric diagnosis will be made using the Structured Psychiatric Interview for the DSM-IV (SCID) and psychiatric symptom severity will be assessed for depression, mania, anxiety, and psychosis. Drug use measures, and quality of life measures will also be obtained. These data are expected to yield new knowledge about the efficacy of providing on-site HVC medical care in substance abuse treatment programs. They will provide a comparison of psychiatric diagnoses and psychiatric symptom presentation in HCV positive IDUs who choose to receive HCV treatment and those who do not choose to follow through with HCV treatment and will describe changes in psychiatric symptoms before, during, and after HCV medical care. Finally, the studies will also provide information about the influence of psychiatric symptoms and drug and alcohol use on HCV medical outcomes such as treatment completion and SVR.
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a cellular organelle that is physiologically responsible for protein folding, calcium homeostasis, and lipid biosynthesis. Pathological stimuli such as oxidative stress, ischemia, disruptions in calcium homeostasis, and increased production of normal and/or folding-defective proteins all contribute to the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the ER, causing ER stress. The adaptive response to ER stress is the activation of unfolded protein response (UPR), which affect a wide variety of cellular functions to maintain ER homeostasis or lead to apoptosis. Three different ER transmembrane sensors, including PKR-like ER kinase (PERK), activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6), and inositol-requiring enzyme-1 (IRE1), are responsible for initiating UPR. The UPR involves a variety of signal transduction pathways that reduce unfolded protein accumulation by boosting ER-resident chaperones, limiting protein translation, and accelerating unfolded protein degradation. ER is now acknowledged as a critical organelle in sensing dangers and determining cell life and death. On the other hand, UPR plays a critical role in the development and progression of several diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), metabolic disorders, chronic kidney diseases, neurological disorders, and cancer. Here, we critically analyze the most current knowledge of the master regulatory roles of ER stress particularly the PERK pathway as a conditional danger receptor, an organelle crosstalk regulator, and a regulator of protein translation. We highlighted that PERK is not only ER stress regulator by sensing UPR and ER stress but also a frontier sensor and direct senses for gut microbiota-generated metabolites. Our work also further highlighted the function of PERK as a central hub that leads to metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic modification which further enhanced inflammatory response and promoted trained immunity. Moreover, we highlighted the contribution of ER stress and PERK in the pathogenesis of several diseases such as cancer, CVD, kidney diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders. Finally, we discuss the therapeutic target of ER stress and PERK for cancer treatment and the potential novel therapeutic targets for CVD, metabolic disorders, and neurodegenerative disorders. Inhibition of ER stress, by the development of small molecules that target the PERK and UPR, represents a promising therapeutic strategy.
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a severe gastrointestinal inflammatory disease with increasing mortality and morbidity. Glycyrrhiza glabra, commonly known as Liquorice, is a widely used plant containing bioactive compounds like Glycyrrhizin, which possesses diverse medicinal properties such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, and anticancer activities. The objective of this study is to investigate the active components, relevant targets, and underlying mechanisms of the traditional Chinese medicine Glycyrrhiza glabra in the treatment of AP. Utilizing various computational biology methods, we explored the potential targets and molecular mechanisms through Glycyrrhizin supplementation. Computational results indicated that Glycyrrhizin shows promising pharmacological potential, particularly with mitogen-activated protein kinase 3 (MAPK3) protein (degree: 70), forming stable complexes with Glycyrrhizin through ionic and hydrogen bonding interactions, with a binding free energy (ΔGbind) of -33.01 ± 0.08 kcal/mol. Through in vitro experiments, we validated that Glycyrrhizin improves primary pancreatic acinar cell injury by inhibiting the MAPK/STAT3/AKT signaling pathway. Overall, MAPK3 emerges as a reliable target for Glycyrrhizin's therapeutic effects in AP treatment. This study provides novel insights into the active components and potential targets and molecular mechanisms of natural products.
UNLABELLED: Healthcare-associated infections caused by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREFM) pose a significant threat to healthcare. Confirming the relatedness of the bacterial isolates from different patients is challenging. We aimed to assess the efficacy of IR-Biotyper, multilocus sequencing typing (MLST), and core-genome MLST (cgMLST) in comparison with whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for outbreak confirmation in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Twenty VREFM isolates from four neonates and ten control isolates from unrelated patients were analyzed. Genomic DNA extraction, MLST, cgMLST, and WGS were performed. An IR-Biotyper was used with colonies obtained after 24 h of incubation on tryptic soy agar supplemented with 5% sheep blood. The optimal clustering cutoff for the IR-Biotyper was determined by comparing the results with WGS. Clustering concordance was assessed using the adjusted Rand and Wallace indices. MLST and cgMLST identified sequence types (ST) and complex types (CT), revealing suspected outbreak isolates with a predominance of ST17 and CT6553, were confirmed by WGS. For the IR-Biotyper, the proposed optimal clustering cut-off range was 0.106-0.111. Despite lower within-run precision, of the IR-Biotyper, the clustering concordance with WGS was favorable, meeting the criteria for real-time screening. This study confirmed a nosocomial outbreak of VREFM in the NICU using an IR-Biotyper, showing promising results compared to MLST. Although within-run precision requires improvement, the IR-Biotyper demonstrated high discriminatory power and clustering concordance with WGS. These findings suggest its potential as a real-time screening tool for the detection of VREFM-related nosocomial outbreaks.
IMPORTANCE: In this study, we evaluated the performance of the IR-Biotyper in detecting nosocomial outbreaks caused by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, comparing it with MLST, cgMLST, and WGS. We proposed a cutoff that showed the highest concordance compared to WGS and assessed the within-run precision of the IR-Biotyper by evaluating the consistency in genetically identical strain when repeated in the same run.
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition containing clopidogrel which inhibits aggregation of platelets and exists as free base or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and sulfoalkyl ether cyclodextrin (SAE-CD).SOLUTION: The present invention provides liquid, suspension or a solid composition of a SAE-CD-containing composition of clopidogrel which can be adapted for oral, internal or parenteral administration. SAE-CD is useful for helping dissolution and stabilization of clopidogrel in aqueous medium. Furthermore, stability to hydrolysis, thermal decomposition, and photolysis is also improved. SAE-CD provides an improved result comparing to other cyclodextrin derivatives. The liquid composition is optionally usable as transparent solution. The composition can be orally or parenterally administered, and provides substantial pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamical and/or therapeutic advantage comparing to a tablet composition which is orally administered and does not contain SAE-CD.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8
The safety and effectiveness of oral olanzapine in the treatment of schizophrenia and manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder were established in short-term studies in adolescents (ages 13 to 17 years). Use of olanzapine in adolescents is supported by evidence from adequate and well-controlled studies of olanzapine in which 268 adolescents received olanzapine in a range of 2.5 to 20 mg/day [see Clinical Studies (14.1, 14.2)]. Recommended starting dose for adolescents is lower than that for adults [see Dosage and Administration (2.1, 2.2)]. Compared to patients from adult clinical trials, adolescents were likely to gain more weight, experience increased sedation, and have greater increases in total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, prolactin and hepatic aminotransferase levels [see Warnings and Precautions (5.5, 5.15, 5.17) and Adverse Reactions (6.1)]. When deciding among the alternative treatments available for adolescents, clinicians should consider the increased potential (in adolescents as compared with adults) for weight gain and dyslipidemia. Clinicians should consider the potential long-term risks when prescribing to adolescents, and in many cases this may lead them to consider prescribing other drugs first in adolescents [see Indications and Usage (1.1, 1.2) ]. 

Safety and effectiveness of olanzapine in children <13 years of age have not been established [see Patient Counseling Information (17)].

Safety and efficacy of olanzapine and fluoxetine in combination in children and adolescents (10 to 17 years of age) have been established for the acute treatment of depressive episodes associated with bipolar I disorder. 

Safety and effectiveness of olanzapine and fluoxetine in combination in children <10 years of age have not been established.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the world in a devastating way since December 2019. The virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has acquired new characteristics through differences in original profile. The current pandemic and outburst represented a real challenge and a huge threat to global public health The present invention provides novel compositions and methods of preparation of an effective pharmaceutical Antiviral formula for treatment of COVID-19 viral infection. The invention relates to an antiviral formula composed of a combination of vanillin and wheat germ oil that proved highly effective in prevention and treatment of corona virus Covid-19 infection. The patent invention Not only prevents the pathogenicity of viruses, but potentially also alleviates the associated inflammatory and immune reaction named as cytokine storm. The outcome is rapid with no side effects and the patients completely recovered within few days. The rational of the combination and mechanisms underlying the antiviral activity is disclosed. This invention represents a 100% curative antiviral remedy for this pandemic with the advantage of high safety and very low cost. Current situation demonstrates the still lack of a 100% effective anti-COVID-19. The devastating symptoms comprise, the cytokine storm, thrombosis, fever, arthralgia, GIT upsets, respiratory infections and inflammatory process in the lungs, all are currently treated with a plethora of drug combination with a mediocre result. These complications obviously resulted from the absence of an early effective anti-COVID-19 drug.
HCM subjects are patients that are age and BSA-matched with the athletes who then have an established clinical diagnosis of HCM without left ventricular (LV) outflow tract obstruction. There can be no anticipated changes to baseline exercise program (if any) over the study period. HCM subjects must be able to exercise on an upright bicycle ergometer and be between the ages of 18-50.
A therapeutic agent delivery pump includes a bottle having a pressurant chamber containing a pressurant and a therapeutic agent volume, the volume terminating in a visco-elastic septum. The bottle has a piercing element in alignment with the septum and in fluid communication with tubing. A flow restriction gauge impinges on the tubing to restrict the flow of a therapeutic agent from the balloon. An intrathecal drug delivery system includes a pump as described above, along with a pressure compatible catheter. A connector is provided between the pump and the catheter. An externally disposed therapeutic pump assembly for administering a therapeutic delivery agent in metered fashion to an internal location of a patient includes a three-dimensional body, with a lid secured to the body. A bag holding a volume of therapeutic delivery agent contained within the body in order to progressively compress.
This study arm includes patients who undergo allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation at CCHMC and develop acute graft versus host disease. Skin cell samples will be collected using the D-SQUAME Skin Sampling Discs. The first baseline skin sample will be obtained prior to the preparative regimen for stem cell transplant. Samples will be collected weekly after stem cell infusion until 8 weeks, if acute GVHD does not develop. If acute GVHD does develop, weekly samples will continue to be collected until resolution of acute GVHD or development of chronic GVHD, whichever occurs first. Blood samples will be collected at these same time points.
This arm will receive 2 doses of Heme Arginate (trade name Normosang); 1 dose prior to transplant and another on day 2. This is a product derived from human hemin and has been used for over 20 years in clinical practice with few side-effects.
Each child participant in the Intervention group will be taking 4 capsules of Vayarin per day for 3 months. Each capsule contains 167mg Lipirinen, providing 75mg Phosphatidylserine (PS), 21.5mg EPA and 8.5mg DHA. This gives a daily dosage of 300mg PS and 120mg EPA/DHA. They may continue their treatment as usual provided there is no change in medication and intervention during the trial.
Dopamine decline is suggested to underlie aging-related cognitive decline, but longitudinal examinations of this link are currently missing. We analyzed 5-year longitudinal data for a sample of healthy, older adults (baseline: n = 181, age: 64-68 years; 5-year follow-up: n = 129) who underwent positron emission tomography with 11C-raclopride to assess dopamine D2-like receptor (DRD2) availability, magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate structural brain measures, and cognitive tests. Health, lifestyle, and genetic data were also collected. A data-driven approach (k-means cluster analysis) identified groups that differed maximally in DRD2 decline rates in age-sensitive brain regions. One group (n = 47) had DRD2 decline exclusively in the caudate and no cognitive decline. A second group (n = 72) had more wide-ranged DRD2 decline in putamen and nucleus accumbens and also in extrastriatal regions. The latter group showed significant 5-year working memory decline that correlated with putamen DRD2 decline, along with higher dementia and cardiovascular risk and a faster biological pace of aging. Taken together, for individuals with more extensive DRD2 decline, dopamine decline is associated with memory decline in aging.
A system and method for managing medical image data items. A large image manager is used to store medical image data items external to a core PACS. Representative objects are generated and provided to the PACS to be incorporated into the core PACS workflows. The representative objects can be generated by extracted pixel data and metadata from the medical image data items. The representative objects are generated in a format compatible with the protocol used by the PACS workflows. Requests sent to the PACS for medical images can be re-routed to the large image manager to provide the requested images.
Participants receive normal cardiac rehabilitation according to approved standard of care. They use multiple pieces of exercise equipment at each session for increasing amounts of time and at incrementally increasing levels of difficulty. After establishing a baseline, participants are allowed to use the treadmill for "up to 15 minutes" at each session.
There has been only limited experience with overdosage of eptifibatide. There were 8 patients in the EMPACT II study, 9 patients in the PURSUET study, and no patients in the ESPRET study who received bolus doses and/or infusion doses more than double those called for in the protocols. None of these patients experienced an intracranial bleed or other major bleeding.

Eptifibatide was not lethal to rats, rabbits, or monkeys when administered by continuous intravenous infusion for 90 minutes at a total dose of 45 mg/kg (about 2 to 5 times the recommended maximum daily human dose on a body surface area basis). Symptoms of acute toxicity were loss of righting reflex, dyspnea, ptosis, and decreased muscle tone in rabbits and petechial hemorrhages in the femoral and abdominal areas of monkeys.

From in vitro studies, eptifibatide is not extensively bound to plasma proteins and thus may be cleared from plasma by dialysis.
PURPOSE: A new anticancer composition containing 4-acetyl-12,13-epoxyl-9-trichothecene-3,15-diol separated from a methanol extract of fruit bodies of Isaria japonica Y ASUDA is provided which induces the death of cancer cells through the apoptosis of various cancer cells containing leukemia, breast cancer, liver cancer, cervical cancer. CONSTITUTION: Fruit bodies of Isaria japonica Y ASUDA are extracted in methanol and subjected to HPLC chromatography to separate -acetyl-12,13-epoxyl-9-trichothecene-3,15-diol(AEDT) of formula(1). The anticancer composition contains an effective amount of the ACDT for treatment of a cancer patient. For an example, I. japonica, coucher No. CHO-6133 is inoculated into a potato glucose culture, cultured at 25d eg.C for 10 days to produce a bacteria colony having a diameter of 5cm. The colony is inoculated into agar plugs, subjected to a second culture after sterilizing at 121 deg.C for 20min and then cultured at 25 deg.C for 8 days to produce fruit bodies.
In this study, patients with first ever acute ischemic stroke were studied. According to the psychological assessment, patients were divided into two groups according to whether or not there was a PSD at the earlier stage of stroke. Clinical biological data and blood and feces samples were collected. Firstly, 16srDNA sequencing was used to study the difference in the composition and diversity of intestinal microbial communities in the two groups of patients. Then the two groups selected individual representative samples and conducted macro genome sequencing. At the same time, by analyzing the correlation between the intestinal flora and the clinical risk factors and neurotransmitters in early PSD patients, the key functional bacteria related to PSD were identified.
The evidence for the efficacy of Ioflupane I 123 Injection in visualizing striatal dopamine transporters in adult patients with DLB is derived from the scientific literature. In 55 patients clinically diagnosed with DLB or with Alzheimer’s disease, the results of consensus blinded visual assessment of the Ioflupane I 123 Injection images were compared to neuropathological diagnosis made using standard international criteria at autopsy. The patients were 38% female and of ages 63 to 95 years (mean 77 years) at the time of Ioflupane I 123 Injection imaging. The median administered Ioflupane I 123 Injection activity was 150 MBq to 185 MBq (4.1 mCi to 4.9 mCi). Ioflupane I 123 Injection images were rated as normal or abnormal [see Dosage and Administration (2.7)]. Based on autopsy diagnosis, the sensitivity and specificity of Ioflupane I 123 Injection for DLB was 80% (95% CI 61% to 92%) and 92% (95% CI 74% to 99%), respectively.

The effectiveness of Ioflupane I 123 Injection as a screening or confirmatory test and for monitoring disease progression or response to therapy has not been established.
Patients will receive filiform needle treatment only.During the study period, a maximum of two courses of acupuncture therapy, consisting of 7 sessions each, will be administered. Treatment will be given twice per week. After completing the first course of 7 sessions, there will be a break of one week, at the end of which the second course will commence. Treatment will come to a halt as soon as the pain has totally subsided.
OBJECTIVES: Obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are growing health concerns. Since 2005, Student Health Service (SHS) and Hong Kong Paediatric Society formulated a protocol on urine glucose screening (UGS) for early diagnosis of T2DM in students with obesity in Hong Kong. This study reviews students with T2DM captured by this screening program and compare the data with the Hong Kong Children Diabetes Registry (HKCDR) database, to see if the UGS program facilitates early diagnosis of T2DM.
METHODS: Students between the ages of 10-18 years old with age- and sex-specific body mass index (BMI) >97th percentile who attended SHS between the school years from 2005/06 to 2017/18 were recruited for UGS. Those tested positive for random urine glucose underwent diagnostic testing for T2DM according to ADA guidelines. Demographic data and investigatory results from UGS and HKCDR within the same time period were compared.
RESULTS: A total of 216,526 students completed UGS in the said period; 415 (0.19 %) students were tested positive for urine glucose of which 121 students were diagnosed with T2DM. UGS picked up 23 % of the newly diagnosed T2DM cases. When compared to the HKCDR database, students diagnosed via UGS were significantly younger, less obese, and had fewer diabetic related complications. The negative predictive value of UGS is high and can effectively rule out T2DM.
CONCLUSIONS: Urine glucose screening is an inexpensive and simple test that allows for early diagnosis of T2DM among obese school students. Other methods including POCT HbA1c can be explored to improve program effectiveness.