Previous research showed that conscientiousness (social dependability) in childhood
predicted longevity in an archival prospective cohort study of bright children first studied by …

Quality healthcare outcomes depend upon patients' adherence to recommended treatment
regimens. Patient nonadherence can be a pervasive threat to health and wellbeing and carry …

Background Chemoradiation became the standard of care for anal cancer after the ACT I
trial. However, only two-thirds of patients achieved local control, with 5-year survival of 50%; …

Impulsive, undercontrolled personalities and major family stresses are known predictors of
impaired adjustment, but long-term health effects are unclear. In an archival prospective …

Purpose: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a histologic diagnosis describing proliferation
of smooth muscle and epithelial cells within the prostatic transition zone. The prevalence …

Purpose: Surgical therapies for symptomatic bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) due to benign
prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are many, and vary from minimally invasive office based to high-…

Patient nonadherence is widespread and costly. This paper provides a brief narrative review
of research on (non)adherence and validates a clinically useful three-factor heuristic model …

Background Anti-vaccination attitudes are important predictors of vaccination behavior. Existing
measures of vaccination attitudes focus on specific age groups and/or particular vaccines…

Purpose This randomized phase II trial evaluated two docetaxel-based regimens to see
which would be most promising according to overall response rate (ORR) for comparison in a …

Recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancer remains a devastating disease with insufficient
treatment options. We investigated the MET receptor tyrosine kinase as a novel target for the …