OBJECTIVE: Estimating the current association between childhood adversity and the risk of psychosis is crucial for prevention and intervention. We provided an updated synthesis of evidence from the past four decades, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A 2005 review identified smoking, hypertension, and excessive alcohol intake as the most important risk factors of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), but data on other factors remained ...

AIM: Despite advances in understanding pancreatic adenocarcinoma, evidence on its metastatic patterns and impact on patient survival remains limited. This study aims to identify patterns of disease dissemination in synchronous ...

INTRODUCTION: Epidemiological studies of the associations of long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution with asthma onset and lung function in children have used different exposure assessment methods. Little is known about ...

BACKGROUND: Increasing exposure to climatic features is strongly linked to various adverse health outcomes and mortality. While the link between these features and cardiovascular outcomes is well established, most studies ...

Background: The TRACE (Routine posTsuRgical Anaesthesia visit to improve patient outComE) RCT did not show any perioperative benefit from ward-based visits by anaesthetists after surgery. The aim of this study was to ...

Background Global health clinical research is commonly led by high-income countries (HICs) as low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face barriers to participate, including lack of financial and human capacity and lack ...

The high levels of polarization raise concerns about individuals’ decreased ability to empathize and understand the representatives of political out-groups. As such, our political biases may lead us to misunderstand out-group ...

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) marks a significant advancement in segmentation models, offering robust zero-shot abilities and dynamic prompting. However, existing medical SAMs are not suitable for the multi-scale nature ...