04/03/2026
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This pilot implementation study evaluated the online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Guide for Immigrant Resilience, a seven-session self-guided program culturally adapted for young adults with liminal immigration status.
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03/31/2026
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Lived health, the actual performance of daily activities in one’s environment, has received limited attention, and its assessment remains methodologically challenging
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03/30/2026
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Vascular aging is traditionally assessed using a combination of clinical markers, blood pressure and arterial stiffness measurement. However, measuring vascular aging with reference equipment is costly and not scalable. Nocturnal photoplethysmography (PPG) from wearable health trackers offer a scalable solution for longitudinal assessment.
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03/09/2026
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Medical research depends on access to patient data, but legitimate privacy concerns often mean access is restricted. SynthCraft aims to address this challenge; it is an AI partner designed to help researchers generate synthetic versions of medical datasets entirely through natural language, without...
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03/09/2026
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We set out to understand how a night of drinking changes heart rate, sleep, and next-day physical activity in everyday life, and whether these changes might differ by age and biological sex. Using data from nearly 21,000 adults who wore a wearable sensor, we compared each person’s nights with alcohol to their own nights without alcohol
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03/05/2026
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This study examined the association of a mobile health-based disease management program for uncontrolled hypertension and assessed treatment effect heterogeneity using a target trial emulation framework.
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02/12/2026
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Given the growing concerns about their effectiveness and ethical implications, as well as the demand to optimise their potential in facilitating health outcomes, this study conducts a systematic review of...
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01/21/2026
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Acute appendicitis is a common but diagnostically challenging surgical...
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01/07/2026
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This study aimed to evaluate the utility of a general-purpose multimodal LLM, GPT-4o, for lung sound classification from mel-spectrograms and...
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01/12/2026
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Developments in digital technology has enabled devices, such as cardiotocography to be used in the home setting, which may alleviate the burden on the outpatient department.
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