Abstract Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to experience poorer health outcomes than other population groups.While data specific to Indigenous Australians are scarce, a known social health literacy gradient exists linking low health literacy and poor health outcomes within many minority populations.Improving health l
A 26-year-old male undergoing thoracotomy and bleeding control received a preoperative thoracic epidural for postoperative analgesia.On the fifth postoperative day, paralysis of both lower limbs occurred telemarkskongen flue and urgent magnetic resonance imaging showed massive anterior epidural hematoma.During laminectomy and decompression, platele
Soybean yield is a highly complex trait determined by multiple factors such as genotype, environment, and their interactions.The earlier the prediction during the growing season the better.Accurate soybean yield prediction is important for germplasm innovation and planting environment factor improvement.But until now, soybean yield has been determi
Context: Male sickle-cell disease (SCD) patients often have moderate to severe hypogonadism resulting in abnormal seminal fluid parameters.Hydroxyurea (HU) used in SCD patients has been found to further aggravate the testicular dysfunction.Aims: To study the seminal fluid parameters and fertility of male SCD patients and to evaluate the potential i
Krabbe disease (KD) is a childhood leukodystrophy with no cure currently available.KD is due to a deficiency of a lysosomal enzyme called galactosyl-ceramidase (GALC) and is characterized by the accumulation in the nervous system of the sphingolipid psychosine (PSY), yale law school colors whose cytotoxic molecular mechanism is not fully known yet.