Exploring the Usability and Acceptability of the FoodMATS-Youth App for Monitoring Food Marketing Exposures: Mixed Methods Study
JMIR Form Res. 2025 Dec 9;9:e79306. doi: 10.2196/79306. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Unhealthy food and beverage marketing influences children’s attitudes, preferences, and behaviors toward food. Most research studies on children’s exposure to food marketing focus on single settings, media, or marketing channels, precluding cumulative estimates of food marketing exposure across children’s daily lives. Therefore, there is a […]
Lessons Learned from Co-Designing a Digital Health App for Foster Youth: Development and Usability Study
JMIR Form Res. 2025 Dec 9;9:e73281. doi: 10.2196/73281. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Foster youth experience high rates of unmet mental health and substance use needs, while simultaneously facing numerous barriers to accessing and engaging in community-based services. Behavioral intervention technologies (BITs) are promising for overcoming some of the barriers to service engagement, particularly when designed in collaboration […]
Artificial intelligence-driven anthropometric assessment for young children: evaluating the accuracy and practicality of a digital image-based length and weight prediction tool
BMJ Health Care Inform. 2025 Dec 9;32(1):e101540. doi: 10.1136/bmjhci-2025-101540. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Monitoring early childhood growth is vital, as growth faltering could indicate nutritional or health issues requiring prompt intervention. Our study’s aim was to assess the performance of a length-weight artificial intelligence (LWAI) tool for predicting children’s length and weight from smartphone images. METHODS: This […]
Mobile app improves treatment of functional constipation in children: a randomized single-blind study
BMC Pediatr. 2025 Dec 9;25(1):980. doi: 10.1186/s12887-025-06385-y. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Functional constipation is one of the most prevalent functional gastrointestinal disorders in the pediatric population, frequently resulting in quality of life impairment and elevated healthcare costs. Despite the availability of evidence-based treatment guidelines, adherence remains an essential challenge to achieving sustained therapeutic success. METHODS: This randomized, […]
Machine learning model of clinical laboratory data for 30-day mortality of patients with hodgkin’s lymphoma in ICU: a retrospective study based on MIMIC-IV database
Clin Exp Med. 2025 Dec 8;26(1):53. doi: 10.1007/s10238-025-01973-9. ABSTRACT Prognostic stratification of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients in ICU remains challenging, with conventional scoring systems often overlooking pathophysiological biomarkers. This retrospective cohort study analyzed 1,908 HL patients from the MIMIC-IV database. Multivariate logistic regression and machine learning (ML, gradient-boosting (GBM) was optimized with LASSO regularization) were […]
Australian Study Finds Sharp Rise in Antidepressant Dependence
Antidepressants are widely used for panic disorders, anxiety, and depression. In many countries, these medications are also prescribed off label. Guidelines generally suggest treatment for 6-12 months. However, long-term use of these medications beyond one year has been increasing in Australia, Italy, the UK, and Sweden. Stopping these medicines can lead to the risk of […]
Smartphones Show Promise in Detecting Early Dopamine Loss in Parkinson’s
Researchers are investigating whether rapid, smartphone-based motor tests could serve as a feasible alternative to dopamine transporter (DaT) SPECT scans, a type of imaging procedure typically performed to identify dopaminergic impairments in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The study included participants with PD, isolated REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD), and healthy controls. It assessed whether digital motor […]
Association Between Alcohol Use and HIV Treatment Outcomes Following Prison Release in Zambia
Prisons concentrate a high number of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in southern Africa. Post-release disruptions in care often lead to adverse clinical outcomes. HIV prevalence among incarcerated individuals is several-fold higher (14.3 to 27.4%) than in the general adult population (9.4%) in Zambia. Evidence shows that HIV treatment is effective during incarceration, […]
Comparing deep learning models for tuberculosis detection: A retrospective study of digital vs. analog chest radiographs
Indian J Tuberc. 2025 Dec;72 Suppl 2:S43-S46. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2024.05.008. Epub 2024 May 22. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: Chest X-ray (CXR) is an essential tool and one of the most prescribed imaging to detect pulmonary abnormalities, with a yearly estimate of over 2 billion imaging performed worldwide. However, the accurate and timely diagnosis of TB remains an unmet […]
The work engagement and organizational silence among nurses: the mediating role of coworker support
Front Public Health. 2025 Nov 21;13:1660100. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1660100. eCollection 2025. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Organizational silence is prevalent in healthcare and negatively affects nurses and organizational development. This study determined whether coworker support mediates the relationship between organizational silence and work engagement among nurses. METHODS: A quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted using convenience sampling. The Utrecht Work […]
