Background The ongoing pandemic is having a collateral health effect on delivery of
surgical care to millions of patients. Very little is known about pandemic management and …

Periodontitis is a term used to describe an inflammatory process, initiated by the plaque
biofilm, that leads to loss of periodontal attachment to the root surface and adjacent alveolar …

The incidence of obesity (especially childhood obesity) and its associated health-related
problems have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Recent investigations …

Background Previous studies have independently validated the prognostic relevance of
residual cancer burden (RCB) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. We used results from …

Hospitals have severely curtailed the performance of nonurgent surgical procedures in
anticipation of the need to redeploy healthcare resources to meet the projected massive …

Importance Approximately 25% of patients with early-stage breast cancer who receive (neo)
adjuvant chemotherapy experience a recurrence within 5 years. Improvements in therapy …

Using pre-treatment gene expression, protein/phosphoprotein, and clinical data from the I-
SPY2 neoadjuvant platform trial (NCT01042379), we create alternative breast cancer …

The estrogenic activities of bisphenol A (BPA) and its major metabolite BPA glucuronide
(BPA-G) were assessed in a number of in vitro and in vivo assays. BPA competed with [3H] …

Objective: To evaluate methods of parastomal hernia repair. Design: Retrospective analysis.
Setting: Two tertiary care institutions. Patients: Eighty patients undergoing 94 parastomal …

The estrogenic activities of eight phthalate esters (ie, di-2-ethyl-hexyl, di-n-butyl (DBP),
butylbenzyl (BBP), di-hexyl (DHP), diisoheptyl, di-n-octyl, diiso-nonyl, diiso-decyl) were …