Development of a new high-strength diffusion-assisted healable Al-Mg-Zr alloy produced by Powder Bed Fusion - Laser Beam/Metals Sophie De Raedemacker et al. Additive manufacturing enables complex lightweight aluminium components but often generates microvoids or microcracks degrading the mechanical properties. Introducing healing ability into high-strength Al alloys could mitigate these defects and improve structural integrity. A new high-strength and healable Al-Mg-Zr alloy, Almazium®, was developed and processed by Powder Bed Fusion - Laser Beam/Metals (PBF-LB/M).

Adolescents experiencing societal vulnerability are at heightened risk of smoking uptake, exacerbating health disparities. To address this, the KickAsh!-intervention was co-created with adolescents and youth workers in Flanders, Belgium, using the intervention mapping protocol (IMP), aiming to prevent smoking uptake among 10- to 16-year-olds, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Cycling has seen a rising popularity over the past decade, booming even more since the COVID-19 pandemic. To accommodate this increase, appropriate infrastructure needs to be developed, requiring knowledge of traffic volumes, which can be challenging for active mobility. For cycling, one can overcome this through the use of automated or manual bike counters, but these counts are often only performed at strategic locations throughout cities. An additional interesting source of information can come from crowdsourced data which can fill the spatial gaps of counters.

Aim: To explore (1) the experiences of pharmaceutical technical assistants (PTAs) and pharmacists regarding the implementation of PTAs in ward-based pharmaceutical care, and (2) interprofessional perspectives of PTAs, pharmacists, and nurses to identify opportunities for improved collaboration and work processes.

Background Antenatal and postnatal Group Care, based on the Centering Healthcare model, relies on three corecomponents: health assessment, interactive learning and community building. The health assessment consists of selfassessments conducted by the participants and one-to-one medical check-ups conducted by the healthcare provider. Research shows that this component can be challenging within existing health care systems.

Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) have largely replaced the tuberculin skin test (TST) for diagnosing TB infection (TBI) in low-TB-burden countries, except in young children. This review assesses the diagnostic accuracy of IGRAs in children under 5 years old, using TST as a reference, for detecting TBI.

A traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is caused by an acute insult to the spinal cord that inflicts severe damage to the nerve tissue and leads to impaired motor, sensory, and autonomic functions. After the initial injury, a secondary injury phase occurs, which is characterized by an excessive inflammatory response mediated by resident and infiltrating peripheral immune cells that accumulate within the spinal cord lesion. Increasing evidence supports the involvement of B cells in this secondary injury phase post-SCI.