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Seeing inside the Body Using Wearable Sensing and Imaging Technologies
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review explores wearable technologies for noninvasive internal health monitoring. It categorizes approaches into indirect sensing (e.g., bioelectrical and biochemical signals) and direct imaging (e.g., wearable ultrasound and EIT), highlighting multimodal integration and system‐level innovation toward personalized, continuous healthcare.
Sumin Kim +3 more
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Solid fuel use and cooking practices as a major risk factor for ALRI mortality among African children [PDF]
, 2009 Background: Almost half of global child deaths due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where three-quarters of the population cook with solid fuels.
Best, N. +4 more
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“Obnoxious Preoccupation with Sex Organs”: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sex [PDF]
, 2016 Drawing upon anthropological and historical studies of constraints governing the depiction of intercourse, Jajdelska explores the ethics and esthetics of Nabokov’s representations of sex. While such ethical constraints survive despite changes in norms which Nabokov both lived through and helped to produce, this chapter claims that aesthetic problems ...
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.In this study, a vaginal specific ECM hydrogel (vECM) is developed, optimized for intravaginal topical administration, and evaluated for mitigatation of vaginal atrophy associated with menopause. When applied in a rat model of menopause, vECM improves vaginal epithelial thickness and stem cell phenotype, and despite topical application, vECM also ...
Emma I. Zelus +6 more
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Designing the Next Generation of Biomaterials through Nanoengineering
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Nanoengineering enables precise control over biomaterial interactions with living systems by tuning surface energy, defects, porosity, and crystallinity. This review highlights how these nanoscale design parameters drive advances in regenerative medicine, drug delivery, bioprinting, biosensing, and bioimaging, while outlining key translational ...
Ryan Davis Jr. +3 more
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Materials Today BioOsteoarthritis (OA) is a musculoskeletal degenerative disease characterized by alterations in cartilage and subchondral bone leading to impaired joint function. OA disproportionally affects females more than males, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying
Francisco Conceição +9 more
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Cell Transplantation, 2004 Hepatocyte transplantation has been proposed as a technique for bridging patients to whole-organ transplantation, for providing metabolic support during liver failure, and for replacing whole-organ transplantation in certain metabolic liver diseases ...
Valeria R. Mas +4 more
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Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2013 Background: Organ retrieval from brain dead patients is getting an increased attention as the waiting list for organ recipients far exceeds the organ donor pool.
Chhavi Sawhney +5 more
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The University of Pittsburgh: a three and three-quarter-year experience with cadaveric renal transplantation under the point system. [PDF]
, 1989 Eight hundred and sixty kidney transplants were performed at the University of Pittsburgh over a 3.75-year period between January 1, 1986 and October 19, 1989.
Fung, JJ +7 more
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Outcomes following oesophagectomy in patients with oesophageal cancer: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database [PDF]
, 2009 Introduction: This report describes the case mix and outcomes of patients with oesophageal cancer admitted to adult critical care units following elective oesophageal surgery in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Alderson, Derek +8 more
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