Peri-implantitis poses a significant challenge to implant success and overall human health and wellbeing, necessitating effective treatment strategies. As an infectious disease affecting peri-implant tissues, it contributes to oral illness and impacts public health. Lasers, such as Er,Cr:YSGG, have been explored as adjuncts to conventional therapy to enhance clinical and radiographic outcomes, supporting preventive medicine,… →

CONCLUSIONS: B-ALL family burdens develop early. Reducing maintenance VCR/DEX frequency may decrease expenses but not other outcomes. Interventions are needed to support families early and throughout ALL therapy. →

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this randomized clinical trial of GT interventions, GT uptake was higher among participants who received the digital or health coaching interventions compared with usual care, although overall testing rates were low. These results underscore the importance of content delivery, motivational messaging, and alternative GT care models. →

Women with extremely dense breasts have an increased risk of breast cancer but also a decreased sensitivity of mammography. The Dense Tissue and Early Breast Neoplasm Screening (DENSE) trial, initiated in 2011, showed that supplemental full-protocol MRI screening reduced the number of interval cancers in women with extremely dense breasts. Cost-effective screening scenarios have been… →

BACKGROUND/SIGNIFICANCE: Breast biopsies are essential for cancer diagnoses and are often accompanied by heightened procedural anxiety. While local anesthesia addresses procedural pain, it does not lessen psychological distress. Virtual reality (VR) has been explored as a distraction-based intervention that may reduce procedural anxiety. →

BACKGROUND Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) often stems from neuromuscular imbalances, particularly vastus medialis obliques (VMO) dysfunction impairing patellar tracking. Research is shifting toward integrated rehabilitation strategies, such as combining hip adduction with squats to enhance VMO recruitment. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty participants with PFPS were randomized to traditional squatting (SQU, n=15) or squatting with hip… →

CONCLUSIONS: IOS measures improved after the exercise intervention, suggesting physiological adaptations beyond skeletal muscle conditioning that resulted in improved airway mechanics and ventilation distribution in the peripheral lung, while other lung function measures remained largely unchanged. →