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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Psychometric Properties of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale [PDF]

, 2006
The purpose of the study was to assess the psychometrics properties of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale (RHDS), a 23-item instrument that measures patients\u27 perception of readiness for discharge.
Piacentine, Linda, Weiss, Marianne
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Communication of Business‐Nonprofit Collaborations and Environmental Legitimacy: Exploratory Insights From Italian Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni, Daniel Lundgaard, Maria Alejandra Torres‐Cuello, Steen Vallentin   +3 more
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Autonomic Plexuses of the Female Sexual Organs Travel Within Pubocervical and Rectovaginal [Endopelvic] Fascia: A Rationale for ‘Nerve‐Aware’ Vaginal Prolapse Repair

Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The connective tissue support of female pelvic viscera—endopelvic fascia—has been studied in fetal and immunohistochemical models to demonstrate its relationship with the autonomic nerves of the female pelvis. Due to a paucity of literature examining the gross anatomical relationships between endopelvic fascia and autonomic nerves in adult ...
Stephen Magliocchetti, Benjamin Laxer, Leyla Spennato, Norah Alturki, Queena Chou, Tyler S. Beveridge   +5 more
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Determinants of Fertility-Sparing Surgery Choice in Cervical Cancer: A Narrative Review

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology
Objective: This review re-evaluates fertility-sparing surgery (FSS) in cervical cancer, synthesizing advancements in surgical precision, evolving indications, and sociodemographic factors influencing care access.
San Zhu, Manman Zhu, Yaoyao Zhang
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart, Bayan Abubakr, Beltina Gjeloshi, Dieter Pfoser   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural surgical and obstetric facility-level outcomes for index procedures: a retrospective cohort study (2016–2021)

Canadian Journal of Surgery
BACKGROUND: Many rural communities have lost local access to procedural care, and although rural surgical services have endured in some regions, questions regarding quality and safety of care have persisted. Using retrospective observational data, we sought to compare adverse outcomes of the most common surgical procedures performed at rural facilities
Kornelsen, Jude, Av-Gay, Gal, Parajulee, Anshu, Humber, Nancy, Ebert, Sean, Skinner, Tom, Stoll, Kathrin   +6 more
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KCNJ4 variants disrupt inward‐rectifier potassium channel function and cause refractory epilepsy

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder with a strong genetic basis, most frequently arising from ion channel dysfunction. Although multiple inwardly rectifying potassium (Kir) channels have been implicated in epileptogenesis, the contribution of KCNJ4, which encodes the Kir2.3 channel, has not previously been established in human
Hu Pan, Deng Liu, Wuhen Xu, Yang Li, Juanli Hu, Oppermann Henry, Alexander Fuchs, Rami Abou Jamra, Zhen Liu, Mei He, Yuanlu Chen, Shengnan Wu, Xiaohuan Dong, Yiqiao Chen, Pengchao Wang, Weiyue Gu, Han Jing, Yabing Tang, Ya‐Jie Wang, Xiao Mao, Neng Xiao   +20 more
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Did the French pregnancy pictogram change antiseizure medication use during pregnancy?

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to assess the impact of introducing a pregnancy pictogram on medication packaging on the prescription and dispensation of antiseizure medications and on the maternal and neonatal outcomes for women exposed to these medications.
Mélanie Araujo, Christine Damase‐Michel, Marie Denuelle, Sébastien Boulogne, Laurane Delteil, Monica Saucedo, Catherine Deneux‐Tharaux, Isabelle Lacroix   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Patients Bypass Rural Hospitals? Determinants of Inpatient Hospital Choice in Rural California [PDF]

Rural hospitals play a crucial role in providing healthcare to rural Americans, a vulnerable and underserved population; however, rural hospitals have faced threats to their financial viability and many have closed as a result.
José J Escarce, Kanika Kapur
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