Tang K

Various pathologies, environmental factors, and medications can cause anal distension. Sacrococcygeal chordoma is a rare tumor originating from the remnants of the primitive spinal cord. Nonetheless, only a few case reports of anal swelling…

Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is increasingly prescribed to transgender men and gender diverse individuals to better align their affirmed gender identity and somatic phenotype, aiming to improve psychosocial well-being. However, t…

OBJECTIVE: To simulate hysteroscopic suturing in vitro and analyze the learning curve of gynecologists with different experience levels. METHODS: Three gynecologists were trained on uterine models in a circulating water box. The posterior …

Abstract China’s “three-child policy” in response to population ageing has cast safeguarding perinatal health an urgent priority, whereas previous research seldom explored the pregnancy-related cardiovascular and haematological diseases. H…

PURPOSE: Obesity, measured by body mass index (BMI), is implicated in adverse pregnancy outcomes for women seeking in vitro fertilization (IVF) care. However, the shape of the dose-response relationship between BMI and IVF outcomes remains …

BACKGROUND: Understanding potential trajectories in health and drivers of health is crucial to guiding long-term investments and policy implementation. Past work on forecasting has provided an incomplete landscape of future health scenarios…

Uveitis is a serious eye disease that usually damages young adult's health. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNAs which regulate messenger RNA (mRNA) expression. It is predicted that rno-miR-30b-5p can regulate the expressi…

Interleukin-8 has long been recognized to have anti-inflammatory activity, which has been established in various models of infection, inflammation, and cancer. Several cell types express the receptor for the cytokine IL-8 and upon its recog…

Chinese herbs have been used to relieve dysmenorrhea associated with endometriosis. Active components in the herbs and their mechanisms of action remain unknown. Prunella stica, a Chinese herb commonly used to treat dysmenorrhea, was chosen…