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Matthew Medinsky

“When I need help, I ask my friends”: experiences of Spanish autistic women when disclosing their late diagnosis to family and friends

Family and friends may play an important role both in the identification and diagnosis of any condition, as well as in the provision of support afterwards.

The Gaza Ministry of Health casualty numbers are not real; here’s the evidence

A week ago, Time magazine published an article ‘The Science Is Clear.

Degenerate Art in New Normal Germany

One of the first things totalitarians do when they set about transforming a democratic society into whatever type of strictly-regulated, utterly soul-deadening totalitarian dystopia they are trying to transform it into is radically overhaul and remake its culture. You can’t impose your new official ideology on a formerly democratic

Effects of acupuncture for Bell’s palsy patients in the acute phase and its impact on facial nerve edema: a study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial

Background: Bell’s palsy is an acute peripheral facial neuropathy, which is one of the most common causes of facial palsy of lower motor neurons.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease evolves into lupus encephalopathy characterized by venous sinus thrombosis: a case report

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a benign, self-limiting illness that can progress to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in approximately 30% of cases.

The hidden structure of consciousness

According to Loorits (2014), if we want consciouness to be explained in terms of natural sciences, we should be able to analyze its seemingly non-structural aspects, like qualia, in structural terms.However, the studies conducted over the last three decades do not seem to be able to bridge the explanatory

Former heads of state urge national politicians to adopt WHO’s Pandemic Treaty

A week before the World Health Assembly is due to meet, more than 100 high-profile people have signed an open letter to leaders of WHO member states calling for an urgent agreement on a pandemic accord. “An agreement is meant to be reached just two and a half months from

Prevalence and related factors of sleep quality among Chinese undergraduates in Jiangsu Province: multiple models' analysis

Background and aims: In China, a significant number of undergraduates are experiencing poor sleep quality.

Willingness to pay for National Health Insurance Services and Associated Factors in Africa and Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) is crucial for public health, poverty eradication, and economic growth.

Fruits hidden by green: an improved YOLOV8n for detection of young citrus in lush citrus trees

In order to address the challenges of inefficiency and insufficient accuracy in the manual identification of young citrus fruits during thinning processes, this study proposes a detection methodology using the you only look once for complex backgrounds of young citrus fruits (YCCB-YOLO) approach. The method first constructs a dataset containing

The general public has now been firmly established as guinea pigs for Big Pharma

Using the example of three drugs among the many that are causing growing concern, Dr.

Global trends of acupuncture clinical research on analgesia from 2010 to 2023: a bibliometric and visualization analysis

Objective: Acupuncture, acknowledged as a potent non-pharmacological therapy, is frequently employed to alleviate pain.

“HEGA”: the Basque version of the PaBiQ parental questionnaire, for clinicians and educators working in the Basque multilingual environment

In this paper, we investigate the relevance of using a parental questionnaire (HEGA) to gather information on children’s language experience in Basque and early language development in order to better interpret language performance in that language. Both this questionnaire and use of language assessment in Basque are needed in

Assessing interstate racial and socioeconomic disparities in newborn screening policies in the United States

Introduction: This paper explores racial and socioeconomic disparities in newborn screening (NBS) policies across the United States.