Desert dust improves the photophysiology of heat-stressed corals beyond iron.

Desert dust is an important source of essential metals for marine primary productivity, especially in oligotrophic systems surrounded by deserts, such as the Red Sea. However, there are very few studies on the effects of dust on reef-building corals and none on the response of corals to heat stress. We therefore supplied dust to two coral species (Stylophora pistillata and Turbinaria reniformis) kept under control conditions (26 °C) or heat stress (32 °C).

Sex disparities in global burden of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer: analysis of Global Burden of Disease study from 2010 to 2019.

Background And Aim: The global burden of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer (GBTC) has been on the rise, making it a major public health concern. We aim to comprehensively analyze sex disparities in the temporal trends of GBTC incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) regionally and globally from 2010 to 2019.

Methods: Age-standardized rates of GBTC incidence, death, and DALYs were analyzed utilizing the Global Burden of Disease study 2019.

The lived experience of parents of children with disabilities as service users: A transformative learning theory perspective.

The study sought to examine the content and processes that characterize the lived experiences of parents of children with disabilities as service users. The study employed a qualitative approach, utilizing the photovoice methodology to explore formative experiences derived from participants' lived experiences. A total of 24 participants were interviewed; 19 were parents of children with autism and five were parents of children with other disabilities.

How the APHA Maternal and Child Health Section Advanced the Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention.

Purpose: This manuscript provides a history of efforts by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Maternal and Child Health Section (MCH Section) Gun Violence Prevention Workgroup (GVP Workgroup) to promote gun violence prevention (GVP) as a key public health priority both within the MCH Section and APHA, and nationally.

Description: The MCH Section established a gun violence prevention workgroup in response to the murders of twenty first-grade children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. This article presents an overview of the accomplishments and challenges of the MCH Section GVP Workgroup in a context of ever-increasing gun violence.

Use and Cost of Low-Value Services Among Veterans Dually Enrolled in VA and Medicare.

Background: Over half of veterans enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) are also enrolled in Medicare, potentially increasing their opportunity to receive low-value health services within and outside VA.

Objectives: To characterize the use and cost of low-value services delivered to dually enrolled veterans from VA and Medicare.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional.

Care cascades following low-value cervical cancer screening in dually enrolled Veterans.

Background: Veterans dually enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) and Medicare commonly experience downstream services as part of a care cascade after an initial low-value service. Our objective was to characterize the frequency and cost of low-value cervical cancer screening and subsequent care cascades among Veterans dually enrolled in VA and Medicare.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study used VA and Medicare administrative data from fiscal years 2015 to 2019.

Acute Liver Injury Caused by Cyclophosphamide in a Patient With Factor VIII Deficiency: A Rare Presentation.

Because of the variety of drugs, herbal, and dietary supplements used in clinical practice. Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) has become an important and common cause of acute liver injury and failure. Many drugs associated with DILI have been identified, but there remains some uncertainty about others.

Introduction to the special issue on fish bioacoustics: Hearing and sound communicationa).

Fish bioacoustics, or the study of fish hearing, sound production, and acoustic communication, was discussed as early as Aristotle. However, questions about how fishes hear were not really addressed until the early 20th century. Work on fish bioacoustics grew after World War II and considerably in the 21st century since investigators, regulators, and others realized that anthropogenic (human-generated sounds), which had primarily been of interest to workers on marine mammals, was likely to have a major impact on fishes (as well as on aquatic invertebrates).

Facility-Level Variation in Racial Disparities in Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation: The REACH-AF Study.

Background: Oral anticoagulation reduces stroke risk for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Prior research demonstrates lower anticoagulant prescribing in Black than in White individuals but few studies have examined racial differences in facility-level anticoagulant prescribing for AF.

Objective: To assess variation in anticoagulant initiation by race within Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities.

Abundance of Oligoflexales bacteria is associated with algal symbiont density, independent of thermal stress in anemones.

Many multicellular organisms, such as humans, plants, and invertebrates, depend on symbioses with microbes for metabolic cooperation and exchange. Reef-building corals, an ecologically important order of invertebrates, are particularly vulnerable to environmental stress in part because of their nutritive symbiosis with dinoflagellate algae, and yet also benefit from these and other microbial associations. While coral microbiomes remain difficult to study because of their complexity, the anemone is emerging as a simplified model.

ASHP and ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Forecast 2024: Strategic Planning Guidance for Pharmacy Departments in Hospitals and Health Systems.

Purpose: The 2024 ASHP Pharmacy Forecast identifies and contextualizes emerging issues and trends that will influence healthcare, health systems, and the pharmacy profession and provides recommendations to inform long-term strategic planning that should prompt action by pharmacists and health-system leaders.

Methods: Drawing on the “wisdom of crowds” concept, a survey was constructed with 6 general themes, each with 6 to 9 focused statements and a seventh theme on preparedness (58 survey items in total). The size of and representation within the survey panel were intended to capture opinions from a wide range of pharmacy leaders.

Adapting an evidence-based mindfulness-based intervention for sheltered youth experiencing homelessness.

Objectives: Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) face challenges that impact their physical, mental, and social wellbeing, emotion regulation, and coping. Mindfulness reduces stress and improves resilience, emotion regulation, and executive functioning. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) teach the practice of mindfulness to foster present-moment attention without judgement and enhance self-observation and self-regulation, resulting in greater awareness of thoughts and emotions and improved interpersonal relationships.

Heavy metal cellulitis in a nine-year-old gelding Belgian Warmblood.

This horse presented with subcutaneous mercury panniculitis confirmed by toxicological analysis. Based upon the nature of the lesions the mercury species was elemental mercury (Hg ). Despite no history of intentional mercury administration, subcutaneous injection is the presumed most likely route of exposure to Hg .

Views from women and maternity care professionals on routine discussion of previous trauma in the perinatal period: A qualitative evidence synthesis.

Background: Over a third of pregnant women (around 250,000) each year in the United Kingdom have experienced trauma such as domestic abuse, childhood trauma or sexual assault. These experiences can have a long-term impact on women's mental and physical health. This global qualitative evidence synthesis explores the views of women and maternity care professionals on routine discussion of previous trauma in the perinatal period.

Assessing an electronic self-report method for improving quality of ethnicity and race data in the Veterans Health Administration.

Objective: Evaluate self-reported electronic screening () in a VA Transition Care Management Program (TCM) to improve the accuracy and completeness of administrative ethnicity and race data.

Materials And Methods: We compared missing, declined, and complete (neither missing nor declined) rates between (1) (ethnicity and race entered into electronic tablet directly by patient using eScreening), (2) (Veteran-completed paper form plus interview, data entered by staff), and (3) (multiple processes, data entered by staff). The TCM-eScreening ( = 7113) and TCM-EHR groups ( = 7113) included post-9/11 Veterans.

Timing Expression of miR203a-3p during OA Disease: Preliminary In Vitro Evidence.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative bone disease that involves the microenvironment and macroenvironment of joints. Progressive joint tissue degradation and loss of extracellular matrix elements, together with different grades of inflammation, are important hallmarks of OA disease. Therefore, the identification of specific biomarkers to distinguish the stages of disease becomes a primary necessity in clinical practice.

Brentuximab-Induced Colitis in a Non-Stem-Cell Transplant Patient.

Many chemotherapeutic agents have been associated with drug-induced colitis (DIC). With newer agents' expansion of approval as first-line therapy for common cancers, it is important to be cognizant of their association with DIC. We present a case of brentuximab-associated DIC in an elderly woman with CD30+ Hodgkin lymphoma.