Month: <span>September 2025</span>
Month: September 2025

Current Approaches to the Management of Rheumatic Diseases in Pregnancy: Risk Stratification, Therapeutic Advances, and Maternal-Fetal Outcomes

J Pers Med. 2025 Sep 1;15(9):406. doi: 10.3390/jpm15090406. ABSTRACT Background: Autoimmune rheumatic diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), Sjögren’s syndrome, systemic sclerosis …

Improved Utilisation and Quality of Blood Culture Services Following Operational Research in a Tertiary Hospital in Ghana

Trop Med Infect Dis. 2025 Sep 18;10(9):270. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed10090270. ABSTRACT Operational research (OR) published in 2023 revealed low utilisation and suboptimal quality of blood culture …

Empagliflozin Preserves Cardiomyocyte Structural Homeostasis via the Stabilization of the Integrin α5-Desmocollin-2 Adhesion Axis in Sepsis-Induced Cardiomyopathy

Cells. 2025 Sep 16;14(18):1452. doi: 10.3390/cells14181452. ABSTRACT Sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy is a life-threatening complication lacking targeted therapies. While empagliflozin (Empa), a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, …

Reducing False Positives in Newborn Screening: The Role of Perinatal Factors in the Dutch NBS Program

Metabolites. 2025 Sep 22;15(9):634. doi: 10.3390/metabo15090634. ABSTRACT Background/Objectives: Dutch newborn screening is an important public health program designed to detect conditions early in life, enabling …

Defined Composition of Culture Media Promotes Rodent Neonatal Cardiomyocyte Maturation and Enables Functional Neuro-Cardiac Co-Culture

Cells. 2025 Sep 13;14(18):1434. doi: 10.3390/cells14181434. ABSTRACT Neonatal rodent cardiomyocytes (CMs) are a mainstay of in vitro cardiac research, yet their immature phenotype limits the …

Portable Point-of-Care Device for Dual Detection of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Hemoglobin in Low-Resource Settings

Biosensors (Basel). 2025 Sep 3;15(9):577. doi: 10.3390/bios15090577. ABSTRACT Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is a common enzymopathy with significant clinical implications, particularly in malaria-endemic regions and …

Health Care Providers’ Perspectives of Clinical Decision Support Tools for Pediatric Sepsis in Bangladesh: Qualitative Study

JMIR Form Res. 2025 Sep 26;9:e73451. doi: 10.2196/73451. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Sepsis, a life-threatening condition resulting from a dysregulated immune response to infection, disproportionately affects children …

Changes in rural China’s caregiver outcomes, behaviours, and health services utilisation following the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study

J Glob Health. 2025 Sep 26;15:04203. doi: 10.7189/jogh.15.04203. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Under-resourced communities in rural China have long faced limitations in accessing and utilising caregiver and …