Inflammation in health and disease: a balancing act (information about the 16th World Congress on Inflammation (WCI2024)).

The following provides a summary of the 16th World Congress on Inflammation (WCI 2024), which took place in Québec City (Canada) from July 21 to 24, 2024. At the meeting, researchers from around the world presented their latest findings which transcended fundamental and clinical science in the field of inflammation. Participants shared original work which covered a multitude of topics and discussed practical aspects of their research including the application of new diagnostic strategies and medical therapeutic technologies.

Data-Driven Community Engagement: Using Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Set Priorities and Launch New Initiatives in a Growing Catchment Area.

In 2022, the catchment area of the Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium (the Consortium) grew from 13-counties in Western Washington State to include all 39 counties in Washington. Widening the catchment area provided new opportunities for the Consortium to monitor the cancer burden, identify cancer-related health disparities, use a bidirectional approach to develop cancer focused programming, and facilitate research in clinical and community settings. In this commentary, we describe the exploratory process of catchment area change led by the Consortium's Office of Community Outreach and Engagement and new initiatives that followed that growth.

Cost-Effectiveness of Remote Tailored Risk Communication and Navigation for Hereditary Genetic Risk Assessment Uptake: Economic Evaluation From the Genetic Risk Assessment for Cancer Education and Empowerment Trial.

Purpose: The Genetic Risk Assessment for Cancer Education and Empowerment Project demonstrated that tailored counseling and navigation (TCN) substantially increased the rate of genetic evaluation (GE) in women with high-risk breast or ovarian cancer (odds ratio, 8.9 [95% CI, 3.4 to 23.

'This is PEEP' participatory qualitative study: learning from a provincial consultation and advisory group of people with lived and living experience of substance use in British Columbia, Canada.

Objectives: To summarise PEEP's (Professionals for Ethical Engagement of Peers-a group of consultants with lived and living experience of substance use) outputs and gain insights into PEEP's impact and suggestions for the future.

Design: Included an environmental scan to collate PEEP activities and outputs and a participatory qualitative design using thematic analysis.

Setting: British Columbia, Canada.

Visual exposure to green light therapy reduces knee joint pain and alters the lipidome in osteoarthritic rats.

Visual exposure to dim, green, light has been found to reduce pain levels in patients living with migraine, low back pain, and fibromyalgia. Preclinical studies discovered that the analgesic effect of green light was due to the central release of endogenous opioids and a reduction in inflammatory cytokines in the cerebrospinal fluid. The present study assessed the effect of green light therapy (GLT) on joint pain in a rat model of osteoarthritis (OA) and investigated the role of endolipids.