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In austere/conflict settings, when does a complex surgery become ethically unjustifiable due to a lack of postoperative resources for managing complications?
As surgeons, we are trained to operate to solve a clinical problem. However, in severely resource-limited or conflict environments, this principle is constantly tested. Consider a scenario: A surgeon has the technical skill to perform a complex procedure (e.g., a pancreaticoduodenectomy for a tumor, or a complex limb salvage after trauma). However, the hospital lacks a reliable ICU, has inconsistent access to blood products, cannot provide parenteral nutrition, and has limited options for...
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No threshold approach in the risk assessment of genotoxic carcinogen. Is it still well supported by current knowledge of carcinogenesis?
No threshold approach is routinely applied in the risk assessment of genotoxic carcinogens. How this approach is supported by data? Isn´ t it somewhat obsolete?
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Role of humanized immune system mice in to study the infectious and systemic inflammatory disease.
Whether the humanized immune system (HIS) mice help developing therapeutic interventions against infectious and inflammatory diseases? Whether HIS mice may revolutionize the translational biomedical research
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Why are ambitious, planet-critical research proposals, still hitting funding roadblocks, and what will it take to break down these barriers before it’s too late?
Why are we underfunding high-impact climate solutions despite escalating risks—and what funding models would actually move the needle?
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How to examine for power of grip in a patient with weakness?
When we do clinical examination for weakness, power is ascertained by MRC grading. However, for grip, MRC grading cannot be used. Is there any method to examine hand grip power other than using dynamometer
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what are the possible side effects of the use of 5 alpha reductase inhibitors in young men?
what is the incidence of side effects? what are the common side effects and symptoms? what are the genetics and molecular bases for such side effects and symptoms?
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Assuming your role involves human health, how do you identify those medical practitioners of expertise when you suggest a consultant for your patient?
There is a difference in the skill of physicians to whom we entrust lives. This quotation has relevance to such a dilemma: "What do you call the medical student who graduates first in his class? —-"Doctor" "And what do you call the med student who graduates last in his class? — "Doctor" [Image]
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What’s the most creative way researchers have used big data or AI to strengthen evidence-based medicine in recent years?
For example, are there cases where AI discovered hidden patterns in old clinical trial data, predicted drug interactions before human testing, or identified new risk factors from wearable health devices?
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Are the Government Doctors well paid even after having so much workload?
Even after working non-stop the Physicians at Government Institutes and Hospitals are lowly paid.
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Does Yoghurt, Cheese and Milk consumption reduce gut gram negative bacteria and toxic plasma bacterial lipopolysaccharides?
RELEVANT REFERENCES: 1. Sharma, A and IJ Martins. The role of Microbiota in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Scientific Nutritional Health. 7.7 (2023): 108-118. 2. Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides and Neuron Toxicity in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Neurology Research and Surgery. 2018; 1(1): 1-3. 3. Overnutrition Determines LPS Regulation of Mycotoxin Induced Neurotoxicity in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Int J Mol Sci. 201516(12): 29554–29573.
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