Codesigning culturally safe oral health care with First Nations Kidney Warriors experiencing kidney disease in South Australia.

Background: This paper describes how First Nations Kidney Warriors (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with kidney disease), dental hygienists, kidney health care professionals, an Aboriginal hostel accommodation manager and researchers co-designed an approach to improve oral health in South Australia. Kidney Warriors have strong connection to Country, Community and family that underpins health, wellbeing and approaches to research. However, significant colonisation, racism and marginalisation have impacted Kidney Warriors' social, cultural and financial determinants of health, leading to increased chronic conditions including kidney disease.

Assessment of MR blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) cerebrovascular reactivity under general anesthesia in children with moyamoya.

Background: Moyamoya is a progressive, non-atherosclerotic cerebral arteriopathy that may present in childhood and currently has no cure. Early diagnosis is critical to prevent a lifelong risk of neurological morbidity. Blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) MRI cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) imaging provides a non-invasive, in vivo measure of autoregulatory capacity and cerebrovascular reserve.

Reflections on working and walking gently together in collaboration and partnership in Aboriginal ageing research.

Problem: An important aspect of the work that takes place in and across our Aboriginal Health and Ageing research group is about building partnerships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous people. Partnerships are created between colleagues and co-researchers as well as with community Elders, Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, community groups and associations and individuals.

Setting: To fully realise this has required an introspective look at the way we function as a team of Aboriginal researchers and non-Indigenous researchers working together.

Dementia Incidence, Genotype, and Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline in Aboriginal Australians: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Background And Objectives: Aboriginal Australians are disproportionately affected by dementia, with incidence in remote populations approximately double that of non-Indigenous populations. This study aimed to identify dementia incidence and risk factors in Aboriginal Australians residing in urban areas, which are currently unknown.

Methods: A population-based cohort of Aboriginal Australians ≥60 years of age was assessed at baseline and 6-year follow-up.

Ngarraanga Giinganay ('thinking peacefully'): Co-design and pilot study of a culturally-grounded mindfulness-based stress reduction program with older First Nations Australians.

First Nations 'survivors' are ageing in increasing numbers. Life-course stress and depression are of concern for older First Nations Australians, yet there are limited psychosocial interventions. This study aimed to co-design a culturally-grounded mindfulness-based program ('Ngarraanga Giinganay') and evaluate acceptability/feasibility with an Aboriginal community on Gumbaynggirr Country.

Patterns and preferences for accessing health and aged care services in older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Objectives: To determine preferences for health and aged care services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and explore related factors.

Methods: Mixed-method, cross-sectional study including 336 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 60 years and older from regional and urban areas.

Results: Exclusive preference for Aboriginal Community Controlled services was most common.

Older Aboriginal Australians' Health Concerns and Preferences for Healthy Ageing Programs.

While there is strong evidence of the need for healthy ageing programs for older Aboriginal Australians, few are available. It is important to understand older Aboriginal Australians' perspectives on healthy ageing in order to co-design culturally-appropriate programs, including views on technology use in this context. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 Aboriginal Australians aged 50 years and older from regional and urban communities to explore participants' health concerns, preferences for healthy ageing programs, and receptiveness to technology.

Safety Standards in Pharmaceutical Compounding, Part 2: A Closer Look at Agency Information, Oversight, and Assistance.

In the U.S., compounding pharmacies are regulated primarily by state boards of pharmacy, which often collaborate with federal agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration or the Department of Health and Human Services.

Safety Standards in Pharmaceutical Compounding, Part 1: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Ensuring a safe working environment for employees is of paramount importance to all responsible compounding pharmacists, and adhering to safety standards established by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration renders achieving that goal more likely.

Non-pathogenic Escherichia coli biofilms: effects of growth conditions and surface properties on structure and curli gene expression.

Biofilm formation is a harmful phenomenon in many areas, such as in industry and clinically, but offers advantages in the field of biocatalysis for the generation of robust biocatalytic platforms. In this work, we optimised growth conditions for the production of Escherichia coli biofilms by three strains (PHL644, a K-12 derivative with enhanced expression of the adhesin curli; the commercially-used strain BL21; and the probiotic Nissle 1917) on a variety of surfaces (plastics, stainless steel and PTFE). E.

Thread-Skip: An Undefined Common Observation.

When a screw-retained implant prosthesis is removed, a click is heard and a slight axial shift is felt, indicating the screw has been fully removed from the retaining thread. This common observation has never been described in the literature. This article describes the click, and it is proposed it be termed thread-skip.

Adolescents born prematurely with isolated grade 2 haemorrhage in the early 1990s face increased risks of learning challenges.

Aim: To compare the impact of low-grade haemorrhage on neurocognitive function in 16-year-old adolescents born preterm, by grade of intraventricular haemorrhage, and term controls.

Methods: We evaluated 338 preterm adolescents (birth weight 600-1250 g) for intelligence, executive function and memory tasks. Eleven had grade 3-4 haemorrhage, 44 had grade 2, 31 had grade 1, and 251 had no haemorrhage.

Aerodynamic implications of gull's drooped wing-tips.

When in gliding flight, gulls are observed to adopt a drooped wing-tip configuration. This paper investigates whether this configuration might represent an aerodynamic optimum or if it is the result of constraints imposed by the gull's anatomy. A computational model was developed for the aerodynamic performance of a gull in gliding flight.

Contact tracing using provider referral: how difficult is it?

Contact tracing using provider referral is often perceived as time-consuming. To assess the workload involved in provider referral at a sexual health clinic, we studied the number of attempts required, the contact method used, the time taken and the success of provider referral for 230 contacts referred over a 3-year period. For 87% of these contacts, a mobile number was available; 78.

Community event-based outreach screening for syphilis and other sexually transmissible infections among gay men in Sydney, Australia.

Unlabelled: Objectives Increased testing frequency is a key strategy in syphilis control, but achieving regular testing is difficult. The objective of this study is to describe a sexually transmissible infection (STI) testing outreach program (the Testing Tent) at a gay community event.

Methods: Gay men attending the testing tent in 2010-11 completed a computer-assisted self-interview and were screened for STIs.

Midfacial Rejuvenation.

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Mid-gestational maternal free thyroxine concentration and offspring neurocognitive development at age two years.

Context: Lower neurocognitive development scores at age 2 yr have been reported in association with euthyroid hypothyroxinemia during early pregnancy.

Objective: The objective of this study was to further explore this association with euthyroid hypothyroxinemia during early pregnancy.

Design: This was an observational, nested case-control study.

Validating TrueAllele® DNA mixture interpretation.

DNA mixtures with two or more contributors are a prevalent form of biological evidence. Mixture interpretation is complicated by the possibility of different genotype combinations that can explain the short tandem repeat (STR) data. Current human review simplifies this interpretation by applying thresholds to qualitatively treat STR data peaks as all-or-none events and assigning allele pairs equal likelihood.

Evidence for catch-up in cognition and receptive vocabulary among adolescents born very preterm.

Background: Very preterm adolescents display persistent deficits in neuropsychological functions.

Objective: To compare cognitive and language outcomes at 16 years and cognitive and receptive vocabulary trajectories throughout school years between very preterm and term children and to determine child and family factors associated with better developmental trajectories.

Design And Methods: At 8, 12, and 16 years, 322 very preterm children with birth weights of 1250 g or less and 41 term children had cognitive and language testing.

Executive and memory function in adolescents born very preterm.

Background: Many preterm children display school difficulties, which may be mediated by impairment in executive function and memory.

Objective: To evaluate executive and memory function among adolescents born preterm compared with term controls at 16 years.

Methods: A total of 337 of 437 (77%) adolescents born in 1989 to 1992 with a birth weight < 1250 g and 102 term controls were assessed with a battery of executive function and memory tasks.

Early predictors of hypertension in prematurely born adolescents.

Objective:  To assess the blood pressure of former preterm and term matched adolescent controls and to identify risk factors associated with blood pressure at 16 years.

Design:   Observational cohort study. Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial.

Maternal obesity, gestational hypertension, and preterm delivery.

Objective: To study maternal obesity as a risk factor for preterm delivery.

Methods: Maine State Birth Records Database from 1996 through 2006 was evaluated to investigate obese pregnant women compared with normal weight women regarding risk for preterm delivery. Multiple risk factors and outcomes were studied in univariable and multivariable models.

Anxious solitude and clinical disorder in middle childhood: bridging developmental and clinical approaches to childhood social anxiety.

It was hypothesized that children identified by their peers at school as anxious solitary would report more symptoms of social anxiety disorder on a self report questionnaire and, on the basis of child and parent clinical interviews, receive more diagnoses of social anxiety disorder and additional anxiety and mood disorders. Participants were 192 children drawn from a community sample of 688 children attending public elementary schools. Half of these children were selected because they were identified as anxious solitary by peers and the other half were demographically-matched controls.

Trajectories of receptive language development from 3 to 12 years of age for very preterm children.

Objectives: The goal was to examine whether indomethacin use, gender, neonatal, and sociodemographic factors predict patterns of receptive language development from 3 to 12 years of age in preterm children.

Methods: A total of 355 children born in 1989-1992 with birth weights of 600 to 1250 g were evaluated at 3, 4.5, 6, 8, and 12 years with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised.