Integration of Complementary Medicine in Supportive Cancer Care: Survey of Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives by Suha Omran, Ziad Qadri, Ghada Shahrour

“…Participants perceived inadequate communication between CTM and conventional practitioners and oncologist skepticism and rejection of CTM as barriers to CTM integration. …”
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On the clinical acceptance of black‐box systems for EEG seizure prediction by Mauro. F. Pinto, Adriana Leal, Fábio Lopes, José Pais, António Dourado, Francisco Sales, Pedro Martins, César A. Teixeira

“…Accordingly, we argue that it is possible to develop robust prediction models, including black‐box systems to some extent, while avoiding data bias, ensuring patient safety, and still complying with legislation, if they can deliver human‐ comprehensible explanations. Due to skepticism and patient safety reasons, many authors advocate the use of transparent models which may limit their performance and potential. …”
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Harmonizing Values, Not Laws: The CISG and the Benefits of a Neo-Realist Perspective by Peter J. Mazzacano

“…Hart’s derisive critique,4 there has been renewed interest in the subject in recent years.5 While it is difficult to speak of a single, comprehensive theory belonging to this group, certain unifying themes can be discerned from the writings of the Realists’, particularly those that concern rule-skepticism and the indeterminacy of law.6 At the risk of simplifying the Legal Realist perspective, the conventional view holds that Legal Realism is a theory7 that law is based, not on formal rules or principles, but instead on judicial decisions that originate from social interests and public policy. …”
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Cervical Cancer Prevention and High-Risk HPV Self-Sampling Awareness and Acceptability among Women Living with HIV: A Qualitative Investigation from the Patients’ and Providers’ Pe... by Daisy Le, Annie Coriolan Ciceron, Min Jeong Jeon, Laura Isabel Gonzalez, Jeanne A. Jordan, Jose Bordon, Beverly Long

“…Most WLH were not familiar with HR-HPV self-sampling but, despite some of the providers’ skepticism, expressed their willingness to participate in a mail-based HR-HPV self-sampling intervention and highlighted convenience, ease of use, and affordability as facilitators to the uptake of HR-HPV self-sampling. …”
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mHealth Technology Experiences of Middle-Aged and Older Individuals With Visual Impairments: Cross-Sectional Interview Study by Soyoung Choi, Md Refat Uz Zaman Sajib, Jenna Manzano, Christian Joseph Chlebek

“…Seven themes were emerged from the perceived challenges in using mHealth technologies: (1) a scarcity of accessible user manuals, (2) user interfaces that are not visually impaired-friendly, (3) health data visualizations that are not accessible, (4) unintuitive arrangement of app content, (5) health information that is challenging to comprehend, (6) cognitive overload caused by an excess of audible information, and (7) skepticism regarding the accuracy of health records. mHealth technologies seem to positively affect the health and health management of participants. …”
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HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis and Treatment as Prevention — Beliefs and Access Barriers in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Women: A Systematic Review by Joshua J. Matacotta, Francisco J. Rosales-Perez, Christian M. Carrillo

“…Misunderstanding about the meaning of “undetectable” and skepticism about the evidence behind TasP messaging campaigns are likely to delay the World Health Organization’s stated goal of getting to zero transmissions.…”
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The impact of nontransparent health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccine-hesitant people’s perception of vaccines by Odette Wegwarth, Odette Wegwarth, Ralph Hertwig, Helge Giese, Harvey V. Fineberg

“…We also investigated whether specific formats of public health messaging were perceived as more trustworthy.ResultsOf the 763 participants, 90 (11.8%) said they had become more open-minded toward vaccines in general, 408 (53.5%) reported no change, and 265 (34.7%) said they had become more skeptical as a result of public health communication on COVID-19 vaccines. …”
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Unique Challenges to Diagnosing Human Herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) Encephalitis Following Post-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: A Case and Brief Review by Harrison Zhu, Amir Ali, Karrune V. Woan, Eric Tam, George Yaghmour, Alan Flores, Preet Chaudhary

“…MR imaging and other clinical findings eliminated all skepticism of HHV-6 encephalitis and HHV-6 antivirals were initiated on day +28, leading to gradual recovery. …”
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Greek and Spanish Undergraduate Perspectives on Academic Librarianship, Within and Beyond Library Science Curricula by Stavroula Sant-Geronikolou, Alexandros Koulouris, Dimitris Kouis

“…Furthermore, results highlighted a reserved optimism with respect to the library’s prospects of upgrading its role in the university, an ambivalence towards librarian’s future roles, and a diffuse skepticism around the system’s potential to grasp the opportunities that the new information and communication technologies offer. …”
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Uncertainty-Aware Denoising Network for Artifact Removal in EEG Signals by Xiyuan Jin, Jing Wang, Lei Liu, Youfang Lin

“…While previous efforts to mitigate or reduce the impact of artifacts have achieved commendable performance, several challenges in this domain still persist: 1) due to black-box skepticism, deep-learning-based automatic EEG artifact removal methods have been impeded from being applied in clinical environments. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of ChatGPT in medicine by Sharanya Gande, Murdoc Gould, Latha Ganti

“…More research is needed to assess its suitability for patient care and implications for non-medical use. Skepticism and thorough review of research are essential, as current studies may face retraction as more information emerges.…”
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among rural Oklahomans by Randolph Hubach, Bryan Shannon, Kerry Morgan, Caleb Alexander, Andrew O'Neil, Campbell Ernst, Zachary Giano

“…Major factors included limited knowledge and understanding about the vaccine, including potential side-effects and long-term complications, as well as skepticism surrounding COVID-19 vaccine development and efficacy. …”
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Strengthening and promoting digital health practice: results from a Global Digital Health Partnership’s survey by Fidelia Cascini, Andrea Gentili, Francesco Andrea Causio, Gerardo Altamura, Andriy Melnyk, Flavia Beccia, Ciro Pappalardo, Alberto Lontano, Walter Ricciardi

“…Seven Countries out of 10 identified lack of organization, skepticism of clinicians, and accessibility of the population as a barriers to adopt digital health implementation, resulting to be the most voted items. …”
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Unfulfilled farmer expectations: the case of the Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) project in Kenya by Mabeya Justin, Ezezika Obidimma C

“…There were, however, pre-existing concerns regarding the use of genetic engineering in crop production and skepticism about private sector involvement. The purpose of this case study was to understand the role of trust in the IRMA partnership by identifying the challenges to, and practices for, building trust in the project.…”
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Weak associations between personality and contraceptive choice by Belinda Pletzer, Carmen Lang, Birgit Derntl, Ramune Griksiene

“…Given the current trend toward a reduction in HC use and increased skepticism toward HC it seems relevant to also identify variables associated with women’s attitudes toward HC and whether they may represent confounds for neuroscientific studies. …”
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What do hospital-based health professionals need and expect from an mHealth app to support the first 1000 days of life? Results from a cross sectional study. by Laura Brunelli, Raffaella Dobrina, Chiara De Vita, Elena Mazzolini, Giuseppa Verardi, Sofia Bussolaro, Maura Degrassi, Giulia Hervatich, Maria Piazza, Tamara Strajn, Andrea Cassone, Anja Starec, Giuseppe Ricci, Sara Zanchiello, Tamara Stampalija

“…Three clusters emerged from the analysis, with the high and medium demanding clusters rating the importance of app content and technical features as very high and high, respectively, while low demanding cluster expressing more skepticism, especially about some of the proposed functionalities of the app.…”
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Challenges in communicating the benefits of switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes: Responses from eight adult focus groups with varying smoking experience by Rosemary J. Avery, Sahara Byrne, Michael C. Dorf, Amelia Greiner Safi, Motasem Kalaji, Alan D. Mathios, Jeff Niederdeppe, Norman Porticella

“…Results indicate that a suggestion of health benefits from exclusive use of e-cigarettes was met with skepticism from users of e-cigarettes and combustible cigarettes, and generated confusion about what these benefits were. …”
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The Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist: A Rapid Review of Implementation Models and Barriers around the World by Ori Kapra, Noam Asna, Mazal Amoyal, Osnat Bashkin, Keren Dopelt

“…Barriers to implementation include conflicts around role boundaries, skepticism and lack of organizational support, as well as fears that oncology clinical nurse specialists will “encroach” on doctors’ powers. …”
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A transgenic macrophage-based platform to assess the efficacy and specificity of HuR modulators in inflammation by Esmeralda Dushku, Maxim Gavriilidis, Panagiotis Mavrommatis-Parasidis, Dimitris L Kontoyiannis

“…However, the divergent functions of HuR on inflammatory degenerations – as revealed in animal models of HuR’s obligatory and tissue-specific ablation – raise skepticism on the use of HuRinhibitors against inflammatory reactions – including those associated with tumors. …”
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Metabolic Side Effects of Lithium by M. Cagdas Eker, Ozlem Donat Eker

“…After its widespread use in psychiatric disorders, observed side effects caused skepticism about its therapeutic efficacy. Despite several disadvantages, lithium is one of the indispensible drugs used in affective disorders, especially in bipolar disorder. …”
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