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The killing of pigs for human consumption (slaughtering) can take place in a slaughterhouse or on farm. The processes of slaughtering that were assessed for welfare, from the arrival of pigs until their death, were grouped into three main phases pre-stunning (including arrival, unloading from the truck, lairage, handling and moving of pigs);…[Read more]

Gun violence remains a major burden on the US healthcare system, with annual cost exceeding $170 billion. Literature on the national trends in cost and survival of gun violence victims requiring operative interventions is lacking.

All adults admitted with a diagnosis of gunshot wound requiring operative intervention were identified using…[Read more]

Further studies to unravel the role of oligoclonal B-cells in (auto)immune-mediated kidney disease are warranted.Background In this study, we measured immunoglobulin free light chains (FLC), a biomarker of inflammation in the sera of patients with heart failure due to myocarditis. Methods FLC kappa and FLC lambda were assayed in stored serum…[Read more]

The IC50 of BDTF and PDTF were 25 µg/mL and 11 µg/mL respectively, while their methanol crude extracts demonstrated lower antiviral efficacy (IC50 ≈ 101-107 µg/mL). BDTF and PDTF also exerted a similar higher virucidal effect (IC50 of 11 µg/mL) than methanol crude extracts (IC50 ≈ 52-66 µg/mL). Furthermore, all the extracts inhibited the attachme…[Read more]

7%). A 19-item predictive model (with a c-statistic of 0.74) was developed. After correcting for overfitting by validating in 100 bootstrapping samples, the model demonstrated moderate predictive accuracy by a c-statistic of 0.68. A point-based risk index was developed and has an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of…[Read more]

The patient was discharged six days later without any postoperative complications. We speculate the use of apixaban and our patient’s unusual site of pain following splenic rupture to be somehow correlated.Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is usually caused by a single microorganism. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common organism associated…[Read more]