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• Perspective

  Published 12 October 2026

  Ceftriaxone-by-default in surgical prophylaxis across the East African community: a measurement problem

  Samar Rashid Abdullahi · Nathan Mugenyi · Lucy Ochola · Jamal Abade Mohamed · Hussein Iman Sigat · Abdirizak Ali Yusuf · Wigilya P. Mikomangwa · Armstrong Ndihokubwayo · David Majuch Kunjok · Schifra Uwamungu · Nathan Banzi · Barbra Tuhamize

  Frontiers in Antibiotics

  doi 10.3389/frabi.2026.1968363

• Original Research

  Published 12 October 2026

  Left to cope alone: how pregnant and postpartum women and their newborns manage extreme heat in coastal Kilifi, Kenya

  Adelaide Lusambili · Fiona Scorgie · Matthew Chersich · Britt Nakstad · Stanley Luchters · Peter Khaemba · Veronique Filippi · Jeremy Hess · Sari Kovats

  Frontiers in Global Women's Health

  doi 10.3389/fgwh.2026.1825348

• Systematic Review

  Published 12 October 2026

  Interventions for mental health and substance use in brain injury populations: systematic evidence map and review with interactive data visualization

  Cole J. Kennedy · Yichun Zhao · Simon Kurkimaki · Nicholas Gavas · Emily L. Spargo · Bernard Dupriez-Mitchell · Devon Rees · Zahra Premji · Erica Woodin · Julia Schmidt · Janelle Breese Biagioni · Mauricio A. Garcia-Barrera

  Frontiers in Digital Health

  doi 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1748621

• Original Research

  Published 12 October 2026

  Perceived knowledge, attitudes, and barriers toward telemedicine adoption Among adults in Mogadishu, Somalia: a cross-sectional study

  Mohamed Sharif Abdi · Sayidcali Warsame Alinuur · Hodan Abdullahi Hassan · Maslah Kamal Mohamed · Yusuf Hared Abdi · Naciimo Cabdishakuur Cisman · Zeinab Mohamed Ahmed · Yakub Burhan Abdullahi · Sharmake Gaiye Bashir · Naima Ibrahim Ahmed · Gallad D. Hassan

  Frontiers in Digital Health

  doi 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1963595

• Systematic Review

  Published 12 October 2026

  Outcome reporting in randomized trials of medicine–food homology interventions for cardiometabolic disease: a scoping review

  Jianguo Xu · Qingyong Zheng · Tengfei Li · Ming Liu · Min Tian · Yonghong Zhu · Yingying Kang · Jinhui Tian · Ping Chen

  Frontiers in Nutrition

  doi 10.3389/fnut.2026.1937261

• Original Research

  Published 12 October 2026

  Exploring the knowledge of community health workers about behavioral risk factors contributing to NCDs in Bushbuckridge, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

  Thabo Difference Pilusa · Cairo Bruce Ntimana · Eric Maimela

  Frontiers in Public Health

  doi 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1971276

• Original Research

  Published 12 October 2026

  Socioeconomic costs and health-related quality of life associated with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

  Ian C. Smith · Alyssa Grant · Lola E. R. Lessard · Homira Osman · Fien Oelbrandt · Hanns Lochmüller · Hugh J. McMillan · Gerald Pfeffer · Lawrence Korngut · Cynthia Gagnon · Stacey Lintern · Katherine A. Selby · Ari Breiner · Kednapa Thavorn · Jodi Warman-Chardon

  Frontiers in Public Health

  doi 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1918801

• Review

  Published 12 October 2026

  Towards recommendations for arts and health evaluation: a two-part review of Quality of Life scales used in mental health and arts research

  Abielle Shao Hua Liu · Raeanne Chien Yin Wong · Renick Daryl Liebin Lee · Jean C. J. Liu · Nisha Sajnani · Kat R. Agres

  Frontiers in Public Health

  doi 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1933623

• Methods

  Published 12 October 2026

  An age-structured mathematical model of tetanus epidemiology, immunity, and vaccination across the life course

  Rachel A. Hounsell · Jared Norman · Sheetal P. Silal

  Frontiers in Public Health

  doi 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1903617

• Systematic Review

  Published 12 October 2026

  Journey to the East: a focused review of online mental health research in East Asia

  Christine Linda Cook · Yun-Chung Tang · Honoka Fukuda · Juyeon Shin

  Frontiers in Public Health

  doi 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1841986

• Policy and Practice Reviews

  Published 12 October 2026

  Obesity in adults: overview of a clinical practice guideline for South Africa

  Marli Conradie-Smit · Wayne May · Clayton Arendse · Jason Bantjes · Zaheer Bayat · Elna Barnard · Sindeep Bhana · Nomathemba Chandiwana · Annibale Cois · Paula N. Diab · Zodwa Dire · Virginia R. Fourie · Julia H. Goedecke · Jocelyn Hellig · Zachary Koto · Kathleen Mawson · Makama Andries Monyeki · Angela Murphy · Christina Nieuwoudt · Marisa Noeth · Nicole Pearce · Joanna Skelton · Thinus (JGM) Smit · Sanjeev Sockalingam · Francois H. van Zyl · Jeanne Lubbe

  Frontiers in Endocrinology

  doi 10.3389/fendo.2026.1875018

• Original Research

  Published 12 October 2026

  Timing luteal urinary pregnanediol glucuronide assessment using urinary luteinizing hormone: agreement with ultrasound-determined ovulation

  Rene Leiva · Rene Ecochard · Jonathan Yang

  Frontiers in Endocrinology

  doi 10.3389/fendo.2026.1992715

• Mini Review

  Published 12 October 2026

  Social media and eating behavior in later life: psychological pathways, evidence gaps, and an age-inclusive research agenda

  Dahai Hu · Weichuan Luo · Xueqi Wu

  Frontiers in Psychology

  doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1966068

• Editorial

  Published 9 October 2026

  Editorial: The impact of sex and gender on disease diagnostics in global health

  Elena Marbán-Castro · Xiaohui Sem · Elena Dacal · Maria Cristina Manzanares-Céspedes

  Frontiers in Global Women's Health

  doi 10.3389/fgwh.2026.1969320

• Original Research

  Published 9 October 2026

  Sex-dependent transcriptional and imaging responses to metformin in young-adult mice with SuHx-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension

  Irene Fernández-Folgueral · María Jesús Sánchez-Guisado · Irati Aiestaran-Zelaia · Marta Beraza · Aitor Zubillaga-Unsain · Claudia Miranda-Pérez de Alejo · Amanda Marrero-Pérez de Alejo · Kinsey Mae Thorpe · Angela Frimpong · Rui Adão · Ian J. Holt · Jesús Ruiz-Cabello

  Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

  doi 10.3389/fcvm.2026.1947678

• Original Research

  Published 9 October 2026

  Whole-genome sequencing analysis of phylogenetic relationships and lineage diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Western Kenya

  Susan Musau · Eleanor I. Lamont · Victor Moses Musyoki · Susan Odera · Noel Onyango · Steve Wandiga · Inosters Wambua Nzuki · Bob Morrison · Reymond Mumo · David Sherman · Marianne W. Mureithi · Videlis Nduba

  Frontiers in Microbiology

  doi 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1980516

• Systematic Review

  Published 8 October 2026

  Beyond the app: a marketness assessment of digital health, sports, and well-being - a systematic review

  Francisco von Hafe · Ana Rita Santos · Ana Rita Londral · Ana Margarida Silva · José Lopes · Nuno Carvalho · Soraia Ferreira · Salomé Azevedo

  Frontiers in Digital Health

  doi 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1871114

• Methods

  Published 8 October 2026

  Early mobility to improve health outcomes following cardiac surgery (EVE) clinical trial development: engagement methods using body mapping and virtual consensus building

  Emily K. Phillips · Jacqueline L. Hay · April Gregora · Kathy Smith · Carly Shaski · Sarah Gilchrist · Andrew Fagan · Maureen C. Ashe · Annette S. H. Schultz · Rakesh C. Arora · Todd A. Duhamel · Sheila O’Keefe-McCarthy · Anna M. Chudyk

  Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences

  doi 10.3389/fresc.2026.1801084

• Systematic Review

  Published 7 October 2026

  Environmental occurrence and dissemination of colistin resistance in contaminated aquatic systems: a systematic review of eight observational studies

  Alisha Sinha · Jogesh Murmu · Shreya Singh · Aditi Pal · Utkalika Mallick · Poonamrani Mishra · Krushna Chandra Sahoo · Mahesh Chandra Sahu · Sanghamitra Pati

  Frontiers in Antibiotics

  doi 10.3389/frabi.2026.1970443

• Perspective

  Published 7 October 2026

  Beyond effectiveness: orienting youth mental health research towards population impact

  M. E. Loades · J. R. Weisz · R. S. Beidas

  Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

  doi 10.3389/frcha.2026.1952905

• Original Research

  Published 7 October 2026

  Structural changes in the retinal layers of patients with Steinert disease

  Beatriz Cordón · Beatriz Pardiñas · Mónica Hernández · María Jesús Rodrigo · Elvira Mayordomo · Luis Emilio Pablo · Elena García-Martin

  Frontiers in Ophthalmology

  doi 10.3389/fopht.2026.1959492

• Original Research

  Published 7 October 2026

  DepressNet: an interpretable machine learning framework for depression severity stratification using psychometric data

  Anika Rahman · Fahmid Al Farid · Md Humaion Kabir Mehedi · Jia Uddin · Hezerul Bin Abdul Karim

  Frontiers in Computer Science

  doi 10.3389/fcomp.2026.1901490

• Original Research

  Published 7 October 2026

  Using qualitative data to build causal pathways on perceived associations between poor menstrual health and hygiene and harms among schoolgirls in western Kenya

  Ellie Ansell · Israa Saleh · Garazi Zulaika · David Obor · Anna Maria van Eijk · Kelvin Oruko · Sandra Oketch · Penelope A. Phillips-Howard · Linda Mason

  Frontiers in Reproductive Health

  doi 10.3389/frph.2026.1931799

• Original Research

  Published 7 October 2026

  Diabetic sarcopenia in clinical practice: expert consensus and usability evaluation of a novel screening and diagnostic algorithm

  Alejandro Sanz-Paris · Francisco José Tarazona-Santabalbina · Juana Carretero Gómez · Daniel de Luis Román · José Manuel García-Almeida · Fernando Garrachón-Vallo · Juan José López-Gómez · Germán Guzmán-Rolo · Pedro Pablo García-Luna

  Frontiers in Nutrition

  doi 10.3389/fnut.2026.1906664

• Hypothesis and Theory

  Published 7 October 2026

  The developmental dopamine trajectory hypothesis of ADHD across the lifespan

  Raly James Perez Custodio · Stephan Getzmann · Edmund Wascher · Michael C. Pan · Florence Ingred Samante · Fred Lawrence Samante · Bung-Nyun Kim · Hee Jin Kim · Eugene C. Yi · Jae Hoon Cheong

  Frontiers in Psychiatry

  doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1944446

• Original Research

  Published 6 October 2026

  Psychobehavioral profiles, competitive progression, and nutritional characteristics in CrossFit® athletes across a national competitive season

  Gabriel de Souza Zanini · Tatiana Palotta Minari · Eduarda Cortese Santos · Víctor Hernández-Beltrán · José M. Gamonales · David Michel de Oliveira · Cassiano Merussi Neiva · Mário Cunha Espada · Dalton Müller Pessôa Filho

  Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

  doi 10.3389/fspor.2026.1902121

• Original Research

  Published 6 October 2026

  Rethinking networks through relatedness - a qualitative study among inpatients in forensic psychiatry

  Berit Kjærside Nielsen · Lisbeth Uhrskov Sørensen · Caroline Trillingsgaard Mejdahl · Jette Møllerhøj · Morten Deleuran Terkildsen

  Frontiers in Psychiatry

  doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1870584

• Methods

  Published 5 October 2026

  An integrated climate-structured personal and ambient air pollution monitoring framework embedded within a pregnancy and postpartum cohort in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Liberty Makacha · Jovito Nune · P. Tatenda Makanga · Cathryn Tonne · Marie-Laure Volvert · Hawanatu Jah · Yahaya Idris · Esperança Sevene · Moses Mukhanya · Angela Koech · Onesmus Wanje · Anifa Valá · Hannah Blencowe · Umberto d’Alessandro · Marleen Temmerman · Anna Roca · Jeffrey N. Bone · Laura A. Magee · Peter von Dadelszen · Ben Barratt · the PRECISE and PRECISE-DYAD Networks

  Frontiers in Global Women's Health

  doi 10.3389/fgwh.2026.1849628

• Systematic Review

  Published 5 October 2026

  Voice and speech as digital biomarkers of mental health: a scoping review of clinical interpretability, data collection and translational readiness

  Ralph Justin Uy · Ibrahim Shaaban · Angel Arnaout

  Frontiers in Digital Health

  doi 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1964389

• Review

  Published 5 October 2026

  Carbon dots in tissue repair: from cell behavior to microenvironment remodeling

  Xumin Li · Junsi Luo · Shuangjiang Li

  Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

  doi 10.3389/fbioe.2026.1912437

• Original Research

  Published 2 October 2026

  Structural and dynamic functional controllability: shared variance between network control metrics limits attribution to distinct domains of intelligence

  Justin Ng · Jamie D. Feusner · Colin Hawco

  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

  doi 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1920417

• Original Research

  Published 2 October 2026

  An in silico cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic testbed for comparing visual and deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease

  Chun-Hui Huang · Wen-Shuo Chen · Jin-Rong Lai · Chia-Hung Cho · Yun-Ta Sung · Chih-Tsung Chang · Chii-Wann Lin

  Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

  doi 10.3389/fncom.2026.1950516

• Clinical Trial

  Published 1 October 2026

  Development of a multimodal health education module for dementia prevention in at-risk rural Indian elders: a SMRUTHI INDIA initiative

  Kritika Sharma · Aditi Dubey · Shubham Gupta · Kajal Fulara · Hina Narzari · Nilima Nilima · Sneha · Kamini · Sakshi Sharma · Varuna Sharma · Shikha Chaudhary · Phaniraj Vastrad · N. Priya Darshanraj · Sandip Bhattacharjee · Pradyut Datta · Gajraj Singh Shekhawat · Arnav Verma · V. Harshath Ajay · Jajur Rajappa Sandesh · Ambika Y. V. · Bishakha Sen · Shalina Jamatia · Priyanka Kumari Meena · Hitesh Tiwari · Shaily Bhushan · Sagar P. M. · Ripanjit Singh · Manish Acharjee · Vikram Raigar · Kalpna Sharma · Aishwarya Bhovi · Mailarappa Padiyappa Hooli · Shilpa K. · Naveen M.R. · Dipankar Deb · Pameli Jamatia · Pooja Sharma · Akhilesh Nagar · Tinku Yogi · Rishav Bhatia · Rishabh Gautam · Maroof Khan · Vaibhav Patil · Rajeev Aggarwal · Ashima Nehra · Kanika Vasudeva · Nimin Hafeez · Chanchal Goyal · Subarna Roy · Manish Barvaliya · Subrata Baidya · Shampa Das · P. K. Anand · Sunil K. Raina · Meenakshi Sharma · R. S. Dhaliwal · Abhik Sinha · Anu Gupta · Venugopalan Y. Vishnu · M. V. Padma Srivastava

  Frontiers in Dementia

  doi 10.3389/frdem.2026.1914082

• Editorial

  Published 1 October 2026

  Editorial: Exploring the multidisciplinary roles of sports events

  Maria João Custódio · Fernando Perna · Azila Azmi · Luís Carvalhinho · Elsa Pereira

  Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

  doi 10.3389/fspor.2026.1954895

• Systematic Review

  Published 30 September 2026

  Primary healthcare, climate-related health impacts and intercultural dialogue: bibliometric evidence of a fragmented research field

  Nidia Ponte · Fátima Alves · Diogo Guedes Vidal

  Frontiers in Health Services

  doi 10.3389/frhs.2026.1909093

• Original Research

  Published 30 September 2026

  Classical and intermediate monocytes and their ratios in the natural immune course of ischemic stroke

  Marta Oses · María Araceli García-Torres · Cristina Serrano del Castillo · Ana Moraga · Inmaculada Navas · Marta Guillán · Ivana Zamarbide · Víctor Mora · Carolina Peña-Martínez · Fernando Ostos · Patricia Calleja · María Ángeles Moro · Alicia García-Culebras · Ignacio Lizasoain

  Frontiers in Neuroscience

  doi 10.3389/fnins.2026.1889912

• Systematic Review

  Published 25 September 2026

  Occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency fields and cardiovascular consequences: a systematic review

  Elham Raeisi · Sara Maghare Dehkordi · Saeid Yazdanirad · Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani

  Public Health Reviews

  doi 10.3389/phrs.2026.1609952

• Review

  Published 25 September 2026

  Dengue in an era of hyperendemicity: clinical triage, case management, and primary care preparedness in resource-constrained settings: a narrative review

  Abdikadir Ahmed Hassan · Mohamed Daud Mohamed · Liban Abdullahi Sudi · Iqro Omar Ibrahim · Mohamed Sharif Abdi · Yakub Burhan Abdullahi

  Frontiers in Tropical Diseases

  doi 10.3389/fitd.2026.1948853

• Original Research

  Published 24 September 2026

  Diagnostic performance of digital and clinical approaches for detection of podoconiosis by community health workers in Rwanda: a comparison with dermatologist diagnosis

  Misbah Gashegu · Vedaste Ndahindwa · Leon Mutesa · Nadine Rujeni · Claude Mambo Muvunyi · Clarisse Musanabaganwa · Eric Seruyange · Emmanuel Edwar Siddig · Maya Semrau · Vasso Anagnostopoulou · Lawrence Rugema · Gail Davey

  Frontiers in Tropical Diseases

  doi 10.3389/fitd.2026.1802400

• Original Research

  Published 23 September 2026

  I need it. Without it, I wouldn't have gone, and I do want to go: patient perspectives on the acceptability and appropriateness of two patient-centered interventions to improve adherence to annual lung cancer screening

  Lorella Palazzo · Casey Luce · Anjali Vasavada · Kayne Mettert · Hongyuan Gao · James D. Ralston · Nadejda Bezman · Beverly B. Green · Kristine Rogers · Melissa L. Anderson · Yu-Ru Su · Matthew Triplette · Lisa Carter-Bawa · Karen J. Wernli

  Frontiers in Health Services

  doi 10.3389/frhs.2026.1810956

• Original Research

  Published 23 September 2026

  Bridging gaps in perinatal mental health services for socioeconomically disadvantaged women

  Lem Ngongalah Udeozor · Catherine El-Zerbi · Josephine Wildman · Malcolm Moffat · Judith Rankin

  Frontiers in Global Women's Health

  doi 10.3389/fgwh.2026.1850520

• Systematic Review

  Published 23 September 2026

  Climate change and vertically transmissible infections in maternal and neonatal populations: a systematic review

  Kimberly Sarah Mc Alpine · Tim Groteclaes · Danielle Travill · Margaret Brennan · Natasha Lalloo · Ruvimbo Forget · Carla Devantier-Du Plessis · Lebohang Radebe · Nicholas Brian Brink · Ashraf Coovadia · Matthew Francis Chersich · Darshnika Pemi Lakhoo

  Frontiers in Global Women's Health

  doi 10.3389/fgwh.2026.1931882

• Original Research

  Published 23 September 2026

  Music-evoked EEG signals for mental health assessment using two- and three-class classification

  Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem · Abdelhadi Hireche · Nour Faris Ali · Mohamed Atef · Abdalla A. R. M. Hamid · Ibrahim M. Elfadel · Herbert F. Jelinek

  Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

  doi 10.3389/fnsys.2026.1886805

• Review

  Published 21 September 2026

  Deploying artificial intelligence for occupational and environmental health in waste management: a systematic review

  Wei Li · Zhengyan Ge · Hui Wang · Mingzi Yuan · Zhican Yin

  International Journal of Public Health

  doi 10.3389/ijph.2026.1610020

• Community Case Study

  Published 18 September 2026

  Co-designing PROFESS: a community health worker support framework to strengthen engagement in TB and HIV care in Madagascar

  Onja Gabrielle Ravololohanitra · Haingotiana Razafimanantsoa · Larissa Hecht · Michel Tiaray Harison · Norosoa Assunta Felananirina Rakotoherimora · Harizaka Emmanuel Andriamasy · Nadine Muller

  Frontiers in Health Services

  doi 10.3389/frhs.2026.1910840

• Original Research

  Published 16 September 2026

  Infant mortality across EU health systems: heterogeneity encoding, fixed effects regression, and machine learning in a small macro panel

  Ecmel Kisa · Adnan Kisa

  Frontiers in Health Services

  doi 10.3389/frhs.2026.1893109

• Original Research

  Published 16 September 2026

  A mobile app compared with an educational pamphlet on menopause hormone therapy initiation: a randomized pilot study

  Juliana M. Kling · Courtney A. French · Ekta Kapoor · Mary S. Hedges · Margaret M. Paul · Yihong Deng · Rajeev Chaudhry · Jamie L. Smith · Regina Castaneda · Kristin C. Cole · Chrisandra L. Shufelt · Arjan Karens · Stephanie S. Faubion

  Frontiers in Reproductive Health

  doi 10.3389/frph.2026.1952673

• Systematic Review

  Published 14 September 2026

  The importance of power in photobiomodulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of high-intensity laser therapy

  William Todd Penberthy · Charles E. Vorwaller

  Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

  doi 10.3389/fnint.2026.1914223