Quantifying "Community Power" and "Racial Justice" in the Medical-Legal Partnership Literature.

Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLPs) have been widely acclaimed for promoting health equity and achieving meaningful outcomes. Yet, little to no research has analyzed if this critical work has been done with communities - through meaningful engagement and building power - or if it has been done for communities without their involvement.

The State of Pediatric Research in Hawai'i: A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis.

The current state of pediatric research in Hawai'i was analyzed using bibliometric methods. The Web of Science bibliometric database was used to retrieve 989 Hawai'i records, which were compared with 264 064 records from the United States (US). Hawai'i was compared to the country as a whole in terms of total output of research, article types, top journals, co-authorship, and subject areas.

Building a Patient-Centered Medical-Legal Home in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley.

The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children in Hawai'i (MLPC) has worked to address the social determinants of health for low-income patient-families since 2009. Focused on identifying health-harming legal needs, doctors and lawyers work together to assist families with family law, housing, public benefits, education, employment, civil rights, and other concerns. Providing free, direct legal service in the medical setting allows the medical-legal partnership (MLP) team to identify community-wide concerns such as language access violations, racial discrimination, and unfair policies.

Decreasing trend in postneonatal mortality.

Objective: The objective was to evaluate the postneonatal mortality rate at our institution from 1999 to 2006 as a follow-up to a previous report from our hospital covering 1993 to 1998 and to investigate the causes of death in infants dying in the postneonatal period.

Study Design: We identified all infant deaths before discharge from the nursery aged > or =28 days. Clinical data for all cases and autopsy records where available were reviewed and the cause of death was determined for each infant.

Extracellular matrix activity and caveolae events contribute to cell surface receptor activation that leads to MAP kinase activation in response to UV irradiation in cultured human keratinocytes.

Activation of cell surface components has been implicated in the activation of downstream signaling cascade in response to UV irradiation, and yet the identity and the interaction of those components have been scantly documented. Accumulating evidence indicates that caveolae encapsulating caveolins is the location for those interactions. We found in cultured human keratinocytes that UV irradiation induced both caveolin-1 and EGFR phosphorylation.