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A Prospective Observational Study Assessing the Impacts of Health Literacy and Psychosocial Determinants of Health on 30-day Readmission Risk.

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Our objective was to assess the utility of an assessment battery capturing health literacy (HL) and biopsychosocial determinants of health in predicting 30-day readmission in comparison to a currently well-adopted readmission risk calculator. We als…

A fraction of Pueraria tuberosa extract, rich in antioxidant compounds, alleviates ovariectomized-induced osteoporosis in rats and inhibits growth of breast and ovarian cancer cells.

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Pueraria tuberosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) DC., known as Indian Kudzu belongs to family Fabaceae and it is solicited as “Rasayana” drugs in Ayurveda. In the present study, we analyzed the efficacy of an ethyl acetate fractio…

The intense inflammatory response triggered in the brain after focal cerebral ischemia is detrimental. Recently, we showed that the suppression of toll-like receptors (TLRs) 2 and 4 attenuates infarct size and reduces the expression of pro-inflammat…

ABSTRACTAcute kidney injury (AKI) is commonly caused by medications including, but not limited to,aminoglycosides, cephalosporins, penicillins, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and amphotericin.Among pediatric patients, clindamycin has been widely use…