Month: <span>December 2025</span>
Month: December 2025

Body mass index associated with glucocorticoid-related weight gain in children with rheumatic disease on high-dose prednisone

Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2025 Nov 27. doi: 10.55563/clinexprheumatol/5vs3zx. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between patient variables that affect pharmacokinetic variability …

Predictors of Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Pediatric Patients and Patients With Congenital Heart Disease

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2025 Dec 2:e013600. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.124.013600. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an important therapeutic option in selected …

‘She mustn’t be the mother alone’: motivators, barriers, and recommendations for men’s engagement with reproductive research in South Africa

Health Promot Int. 2025 Oct 30;40(6):daaf207. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daaf207. ABSTRACT There is a notable lack of engagement in reproductive and lifecourse research with and from men, …

Improving understanding of capacity to consent to sensitive HIV biomedical prevention research among adolescents and their parents or guardians in Rakai Uganda (ICARE): a quasi-experimental nonequivalent groups design protocol

BMC Med Ethics. 2025 Dec 1. doi: 10.1186/s12910-025-01342-x. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: For research on sensitive topics like HIV, it is critical to …