The recent research trend advocates the application of new technological advances in therapy and rehabilitation. Applications of modern technologies are good candidates because they have the potential to prevent many diseases and engage young ...

The study is dedicated to investigating the influence of anatomical peculiarities of the ethmoid sinus and identifying predictors of isolated fungal sphenoiditis development. The introduction highlights the multifactorial nature of the involvement ...

Social anxiety is a prevalent problem that affects many people with varying severity; digital exposure therapy-which involves controlled exposure to simulations of feared social situations alongside cognitive restructuring-can help treat patients with ...

A complex combination of clinical, demographic and lifestyle parameters determines the correct diagnosis and the most effective treatment for asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease patients. Artificial Intelligence techniques help ...

Technology bears important relationships to our health and wellness and has been utilized over the past two decades as an aid to support both self-management goals as well as collaboration among treatment teams.However, when chronic illnesses such as ...

This paper aims at using direct approach and Pontryagin's maximum principle to solve a hepatitis B virus dynamics optimal control problem. The controls consist of combination therapy of two treatments. The numerical implementation is done using MATLAB ...

The article gives a summary overview of the most important studies of stuttering by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the last 20 years. This review also highlights problems in the literature in terms of methodology and ...

COVID-19, new coronavirus pneumonia, refers to viral pneumonia caused by new coronavirus (named as 2019-nCoV), with fever, cough, headache, fatigue, difficulty breathing and other symptoms as the main clinical manifestations. The earliest COVID-19 ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) disproportionately affects United States veterans, yet they may be reluctant to seek or engage in care. We interview 21 participants, including veterans with PTSD, clinicians who treat veterans and friends and family ...

Aiming at the problems of health and diet in modern life. The dietary habits, working and sleeping patterns of modern people and their effects on health were analyzed. Starting with the "Preventive Treatment of Diseases" of Traditional Chinese Medicine, ...

The objective of our work is the optimization of the sludge treatment unit by centrifugation. The liquid sludge's from purging the settling tanks and the washing water from the filters are discharged to the thickener in order to increase their ability ...

Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a phenomenon that affects millions of amputees worldwide. Its causes are poorly understood, and traditional forms of pain relief are largely ineffective. For over a decade virtual reality (VR) has shown tantalising ...

Medical specialists treating chronic conditions typically face a heterogeneous set of patients. Such heterogeneity arises because of differences in medical conditions as well as the travel burden each patient faces to visit the clinic periodically. Given ...

This demo describes an ongoing research project that aims to develop a video game for the training of two independent cognitive components involved in reading development: visual attention and auditory rhythm. The video game includes two types of gaming ...

This paper explores how state genetic privacy laws affect the diffusion of personalized medicine, using data on genetic testing for cancer risks. State genetic privacy regimes employ and combine up to three alternative approaches to protecting patient ...

Recent years have witnessed an opportunity for improving healthcare efficiency and quality by mining Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). This paper is aimed at developing a treatment engine, which learns from historical EMR data and provides a patient ...

The community for research on video games for assessment and intervention for mental health spans multiple disciplines, from cognitive sciences, computer science, and interaction design, to psychology, neurobiology, and medicine. The goal of this ...

Gene expression data have been used in many researches to help reveal the underlying mechanism of many diseases. In this study, we applied feature selection techniques on breast cancer patients in the METABRIC Study to predict whether patients will be ...

Studying the breast cancer survival genes information will help to enhance the treatment and save more patents life by identifying the genes biomarker to recommend the proper treatment type. That is why it is now a great challenge for researchers to ...

A large number of patients discuss treatments in online health communities (OHCs). One research question of interest to health researchers is whether treatments being discussed in OHCs are eventually used by community members in their real lives. In ...