Providing 'professionalism with compassion'; how the time for caring communication can improve experiences at the end-of-life at home, findings from a realist evaluation.

Background: For many patients and caregivers, attending to dying and death at home will be a new and fearful experience. This research brings new evidence on the central support of the Rapid Response Service (RRS), provided to those who chose to die at home. RRS's are variable, although all seek to avoid unwanted hospital admissions and to respond flexibly to suit individual preferences for support.

Recovery Residences Are an Innovative Site for HIV Prevention Interventions Targeting People Who Inject Drugs: Preliminary Data From Project HOMES.

Of 1.2 million Americans who would benefit from pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), only 36% were prescribed PrEP in 2023. Project HOMES is an ongoing study that evaluates recovery residences for individuals in medication-assisted recovery from opioid use disorder across five Texas cities.

Intensive Spatiotemporal Characterization of the Tire Wear Toxin 6PPD Quinone in Urban Waters.

6PPDQ is a tire-derived contaminant toxic to coho salmon (LC = 41-95 ng/L) found widely distributed in urban environments. Most monitoring efforts have relied on relatively few discrete samples collected at select locations across rain events. Early work has revealed that 6PPDQ concentrations vary widely over time and space, raising questions about when and where to collect samples.