Background: Building surgical capacity through global surgery partnerships (GSPs) between
high and low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a rising global health focus. Our aim …

Background Infectious and non-infectious risks associated with international travel can be
reduced with adherence to pre-travel advice from practitioners trained in travel medicine. …

Background Travellers' perception of their risk for acquiring travel-related conditions is an
important contributor to decisions and behaviors during travel. In this study, we aimed to …

Background: Structural aspects of health care systems, such as limited access to specialized
surgical and perioperative care, can negatively affect the outcomes and resource use of …

The Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase (LRR-RLK), that is a receptor-like kinase
consists of leucine rich repeat fragments, plays an important role in the plant growth and …

Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent, …

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by
a CAG trinucleotide expansion in the huntingtin gene (HTT), which codes for the pathologic …

Mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are the most common genetic risk factors
for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Increased LRRK2 kinase activity is thought to impair …

We examined health status and access to care among Asian Americans by the following
acculturation indicators: nativity, percent lifetime in the US, self-rated English proficiency, and …

GRN mutations cause frontotemporal dementia (GRN-FTD) due to deficiency in progranulin
(PGRN), a lysosomal and secreted protein with unclear function. Here, we found that Grn –/– …