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Quantifying the fatal and non-fatal burden of disease associated with child growth failure, 2000–2023: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 Open

Hassan Abolhassani, Mesafint Molla Adane, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Muhammad U. Afzal, Navidha Aggarwal , et al. · 2025

Screening for Health-Related Social Needs Among Inpatient Adults at an Academic Medical Center Open

Jocelyn Carter, Narmeen Rehman, Adaugo Amobi, Natalia Swack, Yoichiro Otaki , et al. · 2025

Rosacea and Associated Factors: A Comprehensive Analysis of Lifestyle, Dietary, and Treatment Patterns Using the NIH All of Us Database Open

Sammer Marzouk, Amaan Musabji, Rochell Issa, Umar Ramzan, Osama Hassan , et al. · 2025

Background: Rosacea is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder influenced by genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors. Despite increasing awareness of lifestyle and dietary contributors, comprehensive population-level analyses remain li…

Building the TacMed Chatbot to Support Medical Education in Low-Resource Settings: A Low-Code Platform Approach Open

Ahmad Hassan, Marianna Petrea Imenokhoeva, Stella Nam, Sammer Marzouk, Hicham Naim , et al. · 2025

SP08. Uncovering the Socioeconomic Determinants of Breast Reconstruction Outcomes Across Diverse Demographics Open

Bradley A. Melnick, Abigail Uryga, Sammer Marzouk, Abbey L. Landini, Tokoya Williams , et al. · 2025

Gap Years—Reply Open

Richard M. Schwartzstein, Sammer Marzouk · 2025

Resurgence of polio during Gaza conflict Open

Samer Abuzerr, Sammer Marzouk, Dang Nguyen, Cameron Sabet · 2025

A Cryptographic Method for Reproducible, Transparent Randomization of Clinical Trial Design Open

Ian Miers, David Chen, Colin McSwiggen, Yan Yan, Sammer Marzouk , et al. · 2025

There remains difficulty in creating adequate and equitable protocols and mechanisms to guide the use of randomization to assign participants to different treatment arms in a randomized clinical trial. A trustworthy randomization system sh…

Rethinking Gaza's health system reconstruction Open

Alaha Nasari, Sammer Marzouk, Mads Gilbert · 2025

The global health community must act to protect Lebanon’s healthcare system Open

Alaha Nasari, Sammer Marzouk, Samar Al‐Hajj · 2024

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy with Instillation for Periprosthetic Infection after Breast Reconstruction: A Systematic Review Open

Madeline J. O’Connor, Kristin Huffman, Kelly C. Ho, Sammer Marzouk, Rolando J. Casas Fuentes , et al. · 2024

Background: Periprosthetic infection after breast reconstruction is not uncommon and can result in loss of the implant pocket and negative patient outcomes. Management of these infections typically involves removal of the prosthesis, treat…

Racial Differences in Incidence of Anxiety and Depression Among Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Patients Using the All of Us Database Open

Stuti P. Garg, Namrata V. Chintalapati, Kirtana Sandepudi, Sammer Marzouk, Kelly C. Ho , et al. · 2024

Background: Breast reconstruction after mastectomy may improve psychological sequelae for patients. The objective of this study is to characterize differences in depression and anxiety rates for mastectomy and breast reconstruction (BR) pa…

Restructuring the FDA’s Food Program: Promises and Pitfalls Open

Sammer Marzouk, Kranti C. Rumalla, Peter Lurie · 2024

Following an outbreak of Cronobacter sakazakii infection in infant formula, the US Food and Drug Administration commissioned a series of reports and then undertook a major reorganization of its food program. This article describes the chan…

Low-cost and convenient screening of disease using analysis of physical measurements and recordings Open

Jay Chandra, Raymond Lin, Devin Kancherla, Sophia Scott, Daniel Sul , et al. · 2024

In recent years, there has been substantial work in low-cost medical diagnostics based on the physical manifestations of disease. This is due to advancements in data analysis techniques and classification algorithms and the increased avail…

A systematic review on the use of transforming powder dressing for wound care Open

Madeline J. O’Connor, Kelly C. Ho, Nikhil Sriram, Keenan S. Fine, Bradley A. Melnick , et al. · 2024

The transforming powder dressing (Altrazeal®, Uluru Inc, Addison, TX, USA) is simple to use, painless to apply and has a wear time of up to 30 days. This study aims to review the current literature to elucidate the impact of transforming p…

Entropy removal of medical diagnostics Open

Shuhan He, P. Andrew Chong, Byung-Jun Yoon, Pei-Hung Chung, David Chen , et al. · 2024

Cancer Care in Afghanistan: Perspectives on Health Services Under the Taliban Regime Open

Alaha Nasari, Amina Surosh Nasari, Sammer Marzouk, Edward Christopher Dee, Faramarz Jahanbeen · 2023

Cancer landscape in Afghanistan continues to suffer under Taliban—global support is essential.

How to Promote Your Publication (Preprint) Open

Suhanee Mitragotri, David Chen, Sammer Marzouk, Paul Phan, Noah Abji · 2023

UNSTRUCTURED Academic journals are venues that share peer-reviewed research to the medical community, but in order for that research to reach the general public, the complex topics need to be translated into lay findings and promoted to t…

Broadband for better health—ensuring internet access for all Open

Sammer Marzouk, David Velásquez, Nicky Joseph, Alister Martin · 2023

Entropy Removal of Medical Diagnostics Open

Shuhan He, P. Andrew Chong, Byung-Jun Yoon, Pei-Hung Chung, David Chen , et al. · 2023

Shannon entropy is a core concept in machine learning and information theory, particularly in decision tree modeling. Decision tree representations of medical decision-making tools can be generated using diagnostic metrics found in literat…

Network Analysis of Academic Medical Center Websites in the United States Open

Shuhan He, David Chen, Kameron Collin Black, P. Andrew Chong, Sammer Marzouk , et al. · 2023

Analysis of the Top-Ranking Opioid Use Disorder Videos on TikTok: Retrospective Observational Study (Preprint) Open

Paul Phan, Sammer Marzouk, Kendrick Davis, Margarita Monge, Adam Goodcoff , et al. · 2022

BACKGROUND Opioid use disorder is a serious medical condition becoming increasingly prevalent today, affecting over 2.1 million located in the United States and over 16 million people worldwide. The condition can be detrimental if left un…

Emoji Education: How Students Can Help Increase Health Awareness by Making Emojis Open

Sammer Marzouk, Shuhan He, Jarone Lee · 2022

Emojis can improve health communication, especially when incorporating emojis into traditionally word-only texts. Beyond improving communication, emojis also offer greater access to health care, especially for vulnerable and marginalized p…

Assessment and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome Regression Disorder: International Expert Consensus Open

Jonathan D. Santoro, Lina Patel, Ryan Kammeyer, Robyn A. Filipink, Grace Gombolay , et al. · 2022

Objective To develop standardization for nomenclature, diagnostic work up and diagnostic criteria for cases of neurocognitive regression in Down syndrome. Background There are no consensus criteria for the evaluation or diagnosis of neuroc…

Emoji Education: How Students can Help Increase Health Awareness by Making Emojis (Preprint) Open

Sammer Marzouk, Shuhan He, Jarone Lee · 2022

UNSTRUCTURED Throughout the past several years, there has been an increasing need for medical and health-related emojis to become more present in our society. Even as the total number of emojis increases every year, the number of health-r…

The telehealth advantage: Supporting humanitarian disasters with remote solutions Open

Shuhan He, Sammer Marzouk, Adi Balk, Tehnaz P. Boyle, Jarone Lee · 2022

Telehealth support can rapidly and significantly increase access to healthcare. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth not only supported patients with COVID symptoms but also improved access to the entire continuum of care,…

Can neural markers be used for fibromyalgia clinical management? Open

Luis Castelo‐Branco, Alejandra Cardenas‐Rojas, Kevin Pacheco‐Barrios, Paulo E. P. Teixeira, Paola Gonzalez‐Mego , et al. · 2022

Synthesis, Characterization, and Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Metallo-<i>meso</i>-(4-fluoro-2,6-dimethylphenyl)porphyrin Derivatives Open

Pallas Chou, Lauren Kim, Sammer Marzouk, Rui Sun, Alaina C. Hartnett , et al. · 2022

Zn(II), Cu(II), and Ni(II) 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-fluoro-2,6-dimethylphenyl)porphyrins (TFPs) have been synthesized and characterized. The electronic spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry of these compounds, along with the free-base macrocycl…

Screening of Parkinson’s Disease Using Geometric Features Extracted from Spiral Drawings Open

Jay Chandra, Siva Muthupalaniappan, Zisheng Shang, Richard Deng, Raymond Lin , et al. · 2021

Conventional means of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) screening rely on qualitative tests typically administered by trained neurologists. Tablet technologies that enable data collection during handwriting and drawing tasks may provide low-cost, p…

Cohesin: behind dynamic genome topology and gene expression reprogramming Open

Carlos Perea-Resa, Lauren Wattendorf, Sammer Marzouk, Michael D. Blower · 2021

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