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BACKGROUND Lack of treatment adherence can lead to life-threatening health complications for people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Recent improvements and availability in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology have enabled various possibilities to monitor diabetes treatment. Detection of missed once-daily basal insulin injections can be used to provide feedback to patients, thus improving their diabetes management. In this study, we explore how machine learning (ML) based on CGM data can be used for detecting adherence to once-daily basal insulin injections. METHODS In-silico CGM data were generated to simulate a cohort of T2D patients on once-daily insulin injection (Tresiba). Deep learning methods within ML based on automatic feature extraction including convolutional neural networks were explored and compared with simple feature-engineered ML classification models for adherence detection. It was further investigated whether fused expert-dependent and automatically learned features could improve perforing using real CGM data are relevant.Objective With the advent of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology, there is an increasing need to evaluate driver behavior with the advent of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology. This study introduced a red-light violation warning (RLVW) system using CAV technology in a driving simulator environment, to evaluate driver braking behavior when the light changes suddenly from green to yellow.Methods Researchers recruited a total of 93 participants from diverse socio-economic backgrounds for this study and created a virtual network of downtown Baltimore. An eye tracking device was used to observe distractions and head movements. A Lognormal accelerated failure time (AFT) distribution model was used for this analysis, to calculate speed reduction times from the moment the traffic light changes from green to yellow, to the point where a minimum speed was reached.Results It was observed that speed reduction times were significantly higher in the presence of a RLVW system, requiring a longer period of time to come to a complete stop at the red light. Inferences can be drawn from the jerk analysis that, the RLVW system results in a highly unsafe jerk at the onset of the warning. Without the RLVW system though, a highly uncomfortable positive jerk occurs closer to the signal, which is due to sudden acceleration, as the participants possibly slowed down a lot initially. Gaze analysis showed that the system was able to attract the attention of the drivers, as the majority of the drivers noticed the displayed warning.Conclusions The findings suggest that the presence of an RLVW system sends a clear message to the driver about the change in traffic light and gives the driver ample time to adapt their initial approach speed to stop at the signal, avoiding potential intersection crashes.Patients with chronic widespread pain (CWP) are often unfit for work and go through lengthy treatment. In Denmark, this includes contacts with the job center in their municipality, their general practitioner (GP) and one or more hospital units. Little is known about how coordination around patients with CWP functions and is perceived by professionals. Therefore, our aim is to explore how GPs, social workers from municipality job centers and hospital staff experience interprofessional coordination for patients with CWP. Interviews with 7 GPs, 12 social workers, and 10 hospital staff were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The participants experienced challenges with coordination, primarily in the relations between social workers and GPs. There was an over-reliance on written communication in situations where the actors had divergent agendas, opposing professional roles and conflicting approaches to time. GPs tended to lengthen the time spans for treating patients, while social workers tried to shorten them so that patients could get back to work. Applying the theory of relational coordination (RC), the findings correspond to a low level of RC, indicating a need for shared accountability, and strengthened interpersonal communication between professionals.Abbreviations CWP Chronic widespread pain; GPs General practitioners; RC Relational coordination; IPA Interpretative phenomenological analysis.Introduction infections due to carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) constitute a worldwide threat and are associated with significant mortality, especially in fragile patients, and costs. Meropenem-vaborbactam (M/V) is a combination of a group 2 carbapenem with a novel cyclic boronic acid-based β-lactamase inhibitor which has shown good efficacy against KPC carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, which are amongst the most prevalent types of CRE.Areas covered This article reviews the microbiological and pharmacological profile and current clinical experience and safety of M/V in the treatment of infections caused by CRE.Expert opinion M/V is a promising drug for the treatment of infections due to KPC-producing CRE (KPC-CRE). https://www.selleckchem.com/products/bms493.html It exhibited an almost complete coverage of KPC-CRE isolates from large surveillance studies and a low propensity for resistance selection, retaining activity also against strains producing KPC mutants resistant to ceftazidime-avibactam. Both meropenem and vaborbactam have a favorable pharmacokinetic profile, with similar kinetic properties, a good intrapulmonary penetration and are efficiently cleared during continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH). According to available data, M/V monotherapy is associated with higher clinical cure rates and lower rates of adverse events, especially in terms of nephrotoxicity, if compared to "older" combination therapies.Over the last decade, the Janus kinase1/2 (JAK1/2) inhibitor ruxolitinib has emerged as a cornerstone of myelofibrosis (MF) management. Ruxolitinib improves splenomegaly and symptoms regardless of driver mutation status, and confers a survival advantage in patients with intermediate-2/high risk MF. However, cytopenias remain problematic, and evidence for a robust anti-clonal effect is lacking. Furthermore, the median duration of spleen response to ruxolitinib in clinical trials is approximately 3 years, and ruxolitinib does not appear to affect the risk of leukemic transformation. There is no therapy approved specifically for patients whose disease 'progresses' on ruxolitinib, defining which remains challenging. The recent regulatory approval of the JAK2 inihibitor fedratinib partially fulfills this unmet need, but much remains to be done. Other JAK inhibitors and a plethora of novel agents are being studied in the ruxolitinib 'failure' setting, as well as 'add-on' therapies to ruxolitinib in patients having a 'sub-optimal' response.Objective Heart failure (HF) represents a huge socio-economic burden. It has been demonstrated, experimentally, that renalase, a newly discovered protein, prevents cardiac hypertrophy and adverse remodeling, which is seen in HF. We postulated the following aims to investigate associations of renalase with biomarkers of cardiac remodeling galectin-3, soluble suppression of tumorigenicity, (sST2), growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) and syndecan-1, myocardial stretch (BNP) and cardio-renal axis (cystatin C) in HF patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) to determine whether renalase, in combination with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), represents a risk factor for plasma elevation in biomarkers.Methods We classified HF patients (n = 76) according to LVEF (preserved/reduced), applied a median plasma renalase (113 ng/mL) as a cut-off value (low/high) and created four subgroups of HF patients HFpEF/low renalase (n = 19), HFrEF/low renalase (n = 19), HFess then  .001, respectively. Results after multivariable adjustments (age/gender) were identical.Conclusion When elevated plasma renalase and HF are present, regardless of EF being reduced or preserved, that represents a significant risk factor for increase in cardiac remodeling biomarker plasma concentrations. However, only elevated renalase and reduced EF demonstrated significance as a risk factor for BNP and cystatin C plasma elevation. Renalase may be considered a promising molecule for the improved predictive abilities of conventional biomarkers and is worthy of further investigation.Pediatric neuropsychologists are increasingly recognizing the importance of performance validity testing during evaluations. The use of such measures to detect insufficient effort is of particular importance in pediatric epilepsy evaluations, where test results are often used to guide surgical decisions and failure to detect poor task engagement can result in postsurgical cognitive decline. The present investigation assesses the utility of the Medical Symptom Validity Test (MSVT) in 104 clinically referred children and adolescents with epilepsy. Though the overall failure rate was 15.4% of the total group, children with 2nd grade or higher reading skills (a requirement of the task) passed at a very high rate (96.6%). Of the three failures, two were unequivocally deemed true positives, while the third failed due to extreme somnolence during testing. Notably, for those with ≥2nd grade reading levels, MSVT validity indices were unrelated to patient age, intellectual functioning, or age of epilepsy onset, while modest relations were seen with specific memory measures, number of epilepsy medications, and seizure frequency. Despite these associations, however, this did not result in more failures in this population of children and adolescents with substantial neurologic involvement, as pass rates exceeded 92% for those with intellectual disability, high seizure frequency, high medication burden, and even prior surgical resection of critical memory structures.Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly expanding global pandemic due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. A substantial minority of patients hospitalized develop an Acute COVID-19 Cardiovascular Syndrome (ACovCS) that can manifest with a variety of clinical presentations, but often presents as an acute cardiac injury with cardiomyopathy, ventricular arrhythmias and hemodynamic instability in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. The etiology of this injury is uncertain, but is suspected to be related to myocarditis, microvascular injury, systemic cytokine-mediated injury or stress-related cardiomyopathy. Although histologically unproven, SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to directly replicate within cardiomyocytes and pericytes leading to viral myocarditis. Systemically elevated cytokines are also known to be cardiotoxic and have the potential to result in profound myocardial injury. Prior experience with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-1 (SARS-CoV-1) has helped expedite the evaluation of several promising therapies including anti-viral agents, interleukin-6 inhibitors, and convalescent serum. Management of ACovCS should involve a multidisciplinary team including intensive care specialists, infectious disease specialists and cardiologists. Priorities for managing ACovCS include balancing the goals of minimizing healthcare staff exposure for testing that will not change clinical management with early recognition of the syndrome at a time point where intervention may be most effective. The aim of this paper is to review the best available data on ACovCS epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment. From these data, we propose a surveillance, diagnostic and management strategy that balances potential patient risks and healthcare staff exposure with improvement in meaningful clinical outcomes.