Fair compensation and the affective costs for indigenous doulas in Canada: A qualitative study.

Background: In Canada, Indigenous doulas, or birth workers, who provide continuous, culturally appropriate perinatal support to Indigenous families, build on a long history of Indigenous birth work to provide accessible care to their underserviced communities, but there is little research on how these doulas organize and administer their services.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2020 with five participants who each represented an Indigenous doula collective in Canada. One interview was conducted in person while the remaining four were conducted over Zoom due to COVID-19.

The need for sustainable funding for Indigenous doula services in Canada.

Objectives: To interview representatives from Indigenous doulas across Canada in order to document how they manage the logistics of providing community-based doula care and understand their challenges. These objectives inform the development of an Indigenous doula pilot programme as part of the project, 'She Walks With Me: Supporting Urban Indigenous Expectant Mothers Through Culturally Based Doulas'.

Methods: In 2020, semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of five Indigenous doula collectives across Canada.

Heart work: Indigenous doulas responding to challenges of western systems and revitalizing Indigenous birthing care in Canada.

Background: In Canada, there has been a significant increase in the training of Indigenous doulas, who provide continuous, culturally appropriate support to Indigenous birthing people during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. The purpose of our project was to interview Indigenous doulas across Canada in order to document how they worked through the logistics of providing doula care and to discern their main challenges and innovations.

Population/setting: Our paper analyzes interviews conducted with members of five Indigenous doula collectives across Canada, from the provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Putting them on a strong spiritual path: Indigenous doulas responding to the needs of Indigenous mothers and communities.

Objective: In the past few years, increasing numbers of Indigenous doula collectives have been forming across Canada. Indigenous doulas provide continuous, culturally appropriate support to Indigenous women during pregnancy, birth, and the post-partum period. This support is critical to counter systemic medical racism and socioeconomic barriers that Indigenous families disproportionately face.

Synthesis and preclinical evaluation of the radiolabeled P-glycoprotein inhibitor [(11)C]MC113.

Objectives: With the aim to develop a PET tracer to visualize P-glycoprotein (Pgp) expression levels in different organs, the Pgp inhibitor MC113 was labeled with (11)C and evaluated using small-animal PET.

Methods: [(11)C]MC113 was synthesized by reaction of O-desmethyl MC113 with [(11)C]methyl triflate. Small-animal PET was performed with [(11)C]MC113 in FVB wild-type and Mdr1a/b((-/-)) mice (n=3 per group) and in a mouse model of high (EMT6Ar1.

Effects of donor pre-treatment with dopamine on survival after heart transplantation: a cohort study of heart transplant recipients nested in a randomized controlled multicenter trial.

Objectives: We determined the outcome of cardiac allografts from multiorgan donors enrolled in a randomized trial of donor pre-treatment with dopamine.

Background: Treatment of the brain-dead donor with low-dose dopamine improves immediate graft function after kidney transplantation.

Methods: A cohort study of 93 heart transplants from 21 European centers was undertaken between March 2004 and August 2007.