Online Misleading Information About Women's Reproductive Health: A Narrative Review.

Misinformation about reproductive health threatens to harm health outcomes, compromise medical trust, and enable misinformed policy restrictions. In recent years, reproductive health misinformation has proliferated online due to ideological campaigns and limited content moderation for reproductive health topics. Developing evidence-based practices to counter reproductive health misinformation requires an understanding of the content that women are exposed to online, which is currently lacking.

Perspectives and Recommendations from Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorders: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) are hospitalized in growing numbers. Stigma is pervasive among their hospital providers, and SUD management during medical admissions is often inadequate. However, little is known about how these patients perceive their care quality.

Addressing Viral Medical Rumors and False or Misleading Information.

The rapid spread of medical rumors and false or misleading information on social media during times of uncertainty is a vexing challenge that threatens public health. Understanding the information ecosystem, social media networks, and the scope of incentives that drive users and social media platforms can provide critical insights for strong coordination between stakeholders and funders to address this challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity to demonstrate the role of media monitoring and counter-messaging efforts in responding to dangerous medical rumors, misinformation, and disinformation.

Correlates of Mpox Vaccination among Sexual Minority Men in the United States: Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Main Partner Relationships.

Sexual minority men (SMM) have accounted for the majority of infections during the 2022 outbreak of the orthopox virus known as mpox (previously "monkeypox") in the US. This study examined correlates of mpox vaccination. Between July 28 and September 22, 2022, adult cisgender SMM ( = 2,620) not previously diagnosed with mpox responded to recruitment advertisements on social networking applications and completed an online survey.

Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI): A novel framework extending MI to address COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in online social media platforms.

Researchers have linked circulating misinformation in online platforms to low COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Two disparate literatures provide relevant initial guidance to address the problem. Motivational Interviewing (MI) effectively reduces vaccine hesitancy in clinical environments; meanwhile, social scientists note inoculation, rebuttal, and appeals to accuracy are persuasive in digital contexts.

Community Health Worker Program Outcomes for Diabetes and Hypertension Control in West Bank Refugee Camps: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study.

Introduction: Community health worker (CHW) programs have proven effective in improving diabetes control in many locations and settings, but data on feasibility and efficacy are lacking in the Middle East and settings of chronic violence. A Palestinian CHW program, Health for Palestine (H4P), addresses chronic diseases in West Bank refugee camps. Our study assesses the feasibility and effectiveness of the program's diabetes and hypertension interventions.

Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome Developing Three Days following Administration of mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccine: Case Report.

Little is known about the potential ocular adverse events following mRNA-1273 vaccine. We aimed to report a case of multiple evanescent white dot syndrome (MEWDS) developing 3 days following the administration of mRNA-1273 vaccine booster. A 71-year-old white myopic female presented with complaints of seeing "pulsating light" and scotoma with her left eye that started about 3 days following mRNA-1273 vaccine booster administration.

Chronic pain, mental health and functional impairment in adult refugees from Syria resettled in Norway: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Limited research exists on pain and especially the co-occurrence of pain and mental ill health in general refugee populations. The present study aimed to approximate the prevalence of chronic pain (CP) among adult refugees from Syria resettled in Norway; investigate the association between CP and mental ill health; and explore how CP and mental ill health associate with both perceived general health and functional impairment. Gender as potential effect modifier in these associations was also examined.

Topical Ocular Anti-TNFα Agent Licaminlimab in the Treatment of Acute Anterior Uveitis: A Randomized Phase II Pilot Study.

Purpose: Licaminlimab is a new anti-TNFα antibody fragment for topical ocular application. This phase II study assessed the tolerability, treatment effect, and pharmacokinetics of licaminlimab in acute anterior uveitis (AAU).

Methods: In this multicenter, randomized, parallel-group, double-masked study, 43 adult patients with non-infectious AAU and Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) anterior chamber (AC) cell score of 2+ or 3+ were randomized (3:1 ratio) to licaminlimab (60 mg/mL, 8 drops/day for 15 days, 4 drops/day for 7 days, then matching vehicle for 7 days) or dexamethasone eye drops (8 drops/day for 15 days, tapering to 1 drop/day over 14 days).

Screening for Information Environments: A Role for Health Systems to Address the Misinformation Crisis.

Misinformation about health topics is a public health issue. We are bombarded with information from many sources, across many digital means of communication, affecting the ways in which we are born, grow, work, live, and age. This makes information environments a social determinant of health (SDoH), but one not currently adequately addressed by clinical or public health practitioners.

Corrigendum: Implications of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Results of Online Bulletin Board Interviews.

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Implications of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Results of Online Bulletin Board Interviews.

Reluctance to accept vaccination against COVID-19 poses a significant public health risk and is known to be a multi-determined phenomenon. We conducted online focus groups, or "bulletin boards," in order to probe the nature of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its implications. Participants were 94 individuals from three distinct U.

An Understaffed Hospital Battles COVID-19.

During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, staffing ratios reached untenable levels.

Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Syndromic Surveillance Systems for the Detection of Social Epidemics.

This commentary explores the potential and challenges of developing syndromic surveillance systems with the ability to more rapidly detect epidemics of addiction, poverty, housing instability, food insecurity, social isolation and other social determinants of health (SDoH). Epidemiologists tracking SDoH heavily rely on expensive government surveys released annually, delaying for months if not years the timely detection of social epidemics, defined as sudden, rapid or unexpected changes in social determinants of population health. Conversely, infectious disease syndromic surveillance is an effective early warning tool for epidemic diseases using various types of non-traditional epidemiological data from emergency room chief complaints to search query data.

Ethical Implications for Potential Placebo Effects of Point of Care Ultrasound.

Anecdotally, practitioners of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) describe instances where patients appear to experience a placebo-like response after the examination, also described as a positive care effect. Extensive study of therapeutic ultrasound has yet to reveal differences between intervention and placebo, both of which respond to therapy. Indeed, POCUS is exemplary in incorporating many components known to modulate placebo-like effects.

Novel Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate Treatment (DSP-Visulex) for Noninfectious Anterior Uveitis: A Randomized Phase I/II Clinical Trial.

Purpose: Frequent steroid drops represent a challenge in patient compliance. This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of 5 minute topical dexamethasone sodium phosphate-Visulex (DSP-Visulex) treatment regimen (two applications on the first week then weekly after) compared to daily prednisolone acetate 1% (PA) for noninfectious anterior uveitis.

Materials And Methods: Forty-four patients were randomized to 8% DSP-Visulex with placebo eye drops (8% group, n = 14), 15% DSP-Visulex with placebo eye drops (15% group, n = 15), or Vehicle-Visulex with PA eye drops (PA group, n = 15).