Disposal practice and determinants of unused medicines among the general public in Gondar City, Northwest Ethiopia

IntroductionThe inappropriate disposal of unused medicines poses significant risks to public health and the environment.Gondar City, located in Northwest Ethiopia, is not exempt from this problem.However, little is known about the current disposal practices and the determinants influencing those practices in this specific context.ObjectivesThis stu

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Aortic valve injury following blunt chest trauma

Introduction: Heart valve injury following blunt chest trauma of car accidents is increasing.Although aortic valve involvement is rare, however, in survivors of blunt cardiac trauma it is the most commonly involved valve and the most frequent valve lesion is isolated injury of the noncoronary airpods in jacksonville cusp of aortic valve.Case Presen

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Autophagy in pulmonary fibrosis: friend or foe?

Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process where long-lived and damaged organelles are degraded.Autophagy has been widely associated with several ageing-process click here as well in diseases such as neurodegeneration, cancer and fibrosis, and is now being utilised as a target in these diseases.Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progres

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