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Polymyxin B (PMB) serves as the last-line drug for treating multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. However, its clinical application is limited due to significant nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity. In recent years, smart drug delivery systems have emerged as a research hotspot, aiming to optimise the functions and therapeutic effects of PMB. This article systematically reviews the structural characteristics and antibacterial mechanisms of PMB, as well as the challenges it faces in treating drug-resistant bacterial infections. The progress in smart delivery strategies for PMB is also discussed, including multidrug-resistant delivery, anti-biofilm technologies, targeted delivery, local administration, and synergistic treatment strategies. These strategies offer new directions for the precise treatment of PMB by increasing local drug concentration, reducing toxicity, enhancing the antibacterial spectrum, and inhibiting drug resistance.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1061186X.2025.2527859 | DOI Listing |
J Med Internet Res
September 2025
University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Online postal self-sampling (OPSS) allows service users to screen for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by ordering a self-sampling kit online, taking their own samples, returning them to a laboratory for testing, and receiving their results remotely. OPSS availability and use has increased in both the United Kingdom and globally the past decade but has been adopted in different regions of England at different times, with different models of delivery. It is not known why certain models were decided on or how implementation strategies have influenced outcomes, including the sustainability of OPSS in sexual health service delivery.
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September 2025
Universidad de A Coruña. Facultad de Derecho, Campus de Elviña, s/n, 15071, A Coruña. 981 167000 ext. 1640
The implications of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in many areas of human existence compels us to reflect on its ethical relevance. This paper addresses the signification of its use in healthcare for patient informed consent. To this end, it first proposes an understanding of AI, as well as the basis for informed consent.
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September 2025
The Permanente Medical Group, Pleasanton, California, United States of America.
Background: Research on Post-acute sequelae of COVID (PASC) has focused on the prevalence of symptoms, leaving gaps in our understanding of predictors of health care seeking.
Objective: To identify clinical and sociodemographic characteristics associated with PASC care seeking.
Methods: Retrospective cohort study of adult patients with COVID-19 diagnosis between January 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 in a community-based comprehensive health care delivery system at 21 hospitals and medical clinics in Northern California.
PLoS One
September 2025
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America.
Improving the healthcare system is a persistent and pressing challenge. Collaborative Learning Health Systems, or Learning Health Networks (LHNs), are a novel, replicable organizational form in healthcare delivery that show substantial promise for improving health outcomes. To realize that promise requires a scientific understanding that can serve LHNs' improvement and scaling.
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