Background Sedentary behaviour (SB), conventionally defined as low energy-expenditure activity undertaken in a sitting or reclining position, [1] is associated with adverse physical and mental health ...

Response from Robert Fox, MD Enlargement of the papillae on the distal tongue would be a very unusual manifestation of Sjögren's syndrome. I would be concerned that another process may be present.

New Pulsed-Field Ablation Device Found Effective at 1 Year On the heels of the first pulsed-field ablation device to win approval for atrial fibrillation ablation, a novel version of the technology ...

A missed appointment is a business expense for a clinician for the following reasons: The clinician could have filled the appointment slot. There is a cost to the making of and canceling of ...

Introduction Acute liver failure (ALF) is not a diagnosis but a clinical syndrome. ALF was initially characterized in adults with biochemical evidence of severe hepatic dysfunction (e.g., jaundice and ...

Introduction Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide, with an estimated 934,000 new cases per year, and the second most common cause of worldwide cancer deaths, with an estimated 700 ...

Introduction The progressive increase in life expectancy documented in the last decades represents a new burden on medical intervention as this increase is correlated with a higher prevalence of ...

Abstract and Introduction Inflammation of the breast (mastitis) with or without infection or redness has a variety of etiologies and presentations that range from the fairly benign blocked duct to the ...

Upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) refers to malignant changes of the transitional epithelial cells lining the urinary tract from the renal calyces to the ureteral orifice. Although ...

Abstract Systolic hypertension is a major health economy problem within our aging society. Increased arterial stiffness is the vascular phenotype of systolic hypertension, especially of the large ...

At a time when the capabilities of artificial intelligences seem to be growing by leaps and bounds at an incredible pace, it’s comforting to remember that there are certain cognitive processes that ...

Can Dose Spacing of IL-17i Maintain Efficacy in Psoriasis? IL-17 inhibitors secukinumab and brodalumab demonstrate similar efficacy in patients with psoriasis for up to a year after dose spacing, ...