Moderate to severe psychological distress, disability, and non-receipt of past year visits to a mental health professional.

Background: Studies of mental health care received by persons with disabilities who make up a significant group of the U.S. population are limited.

Lateral lumbar interbody fusion for the correction of spondylolisthesis and adult degenerative scoliosis in high-risk patients: early radiographic results and complications.

Background: Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) is not associated with many of the complications seen in other interbody fusion techniques. This study used computed tomography (CT) scans, the radiographic gold standard, to assess interbody fusion rates achieved utilizing the LLIF technique in high-risk patients.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of patients who underwent LLIF between January 2008 and July 2013.

Work-related injuries: an old problem revisited in the first representative U.S. sample of home health aides.

Objective: To examine whether certain personal and workplace factors increase risk for work-related injuries among home health aides.

Method: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data from the 2007 National Survey of Home Health Aides among workers who provided formal caregiving to older adults or people with disabilities (N = 3,377, weighted sample = 160,720).

Results: Multivariate logistic regression identified six factors associated with injury: White race (OR = 2.

Finger bone immaturity and 2D:4D ratio measurement error in the assessment of the hyperandrogenic hypothesis for the etiology of autism spectrum disorders.

Emerging hypotheses suggest a causal role for prenatal androgen exposure in some cases of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The ratios of the lengths of the bones of the 2nd to the 4th digit (2D:4D) are purported to be markers for prenatal androgen exposure and to be established early in gestation. Elongation of the 4th digit in response to testosterone is said to reduce 2D:4D in males versus females.

Birth and fetal death records and environmental exposures: promising data elements for environmental public health tracking of reproductive outcomes.

Objectives: We inventoried and reviewed the birth and fetal death certificates of all 50 U.S. states to identify nonstandard data items that are environmentally relevant, inexpensive to collect, and might enhance environmental public health tracking.

Change in colony morphology of Candida lusitaniae in association with development of amphotericin B resistance.

It is not uncommon to see amphotericin B treatment failure in patients with systemic infection caused by Candida lusitaniae. We report a patient with stage IV ovarian carcinoma and C. lusitaniae sepsis whose treatment with amphotericin B failed.