Publications by authors named "J R Hood"
is the etiologic agent of the plague. A hallmark of plague is subversion of the host immune response by disrupting host signaling pathways required for inflammation. This non-inflammatory environment permits bacterial colonization and has been shown to be essential for disease manifestation.
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- Opioid overdose deaths have significantly increased in the U.S. from 2012 to 2022, with a large number of individuals having past involvement with the criminal justice system, highlighting a critical need for effective treatment options like Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD).
- WA State has made efforts to improve access to MOUD, particularly for those incarcerated, as they experience high overdose risk upon release, yet there's a lack of strategies to connect jail-based MOUD services with community resources.
- The SAIA-MOUD study aims to enhance MOUD care across jail and community clinics in King County, WA, through a structured implementation approach, ultimately seeking to reduce relapse and death rates among former inmates.
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- Scientists studied the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect using data from two telescopes, the South Pole Telescope and Herschel-SPIRE, covering a large area in the sky.
- They found a strong signal indicating that there is a trispectrum, which is a kind of pattern in the data, but it had contributions from other sources too, like cosmic microwave background lensing and foregrounds.
- By analyzing the data, they couldn't find just the kSZ signal alone, but they set limits on how long the reionization period lasted in the early universe, which helps us understand its history better.
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- West Nile Virus (WNV) primarily infects birds but can spill over to humans, leading to varying clinical symptoms, including severe neuroinvasive diseases, with mosquitoes being the main vector.
- The extrinsic incubation period (EIP), or the time it takes for infected mosquitoes to spread the virus, varies with temperature, which significantly affects WNV transmission dynamics.
- New analysis using Bayesian models shows that higher temperatures reduce the EIP significantly, with the fastest spread observed at 32ºC, and identifies a competitive advantage of the WN02 strain over NY99, particularly in cooler conditions.
Objectives: Emergency Medical Services patients who survive overdose are at high risk for subsequent overdose and death. Programs that seek to link overdose survivors to harm reduction and treatment services are increasingly common, though they vary in design and measured effect. Public Health - Seattle & King County (PHSKC) used a continuous quality improvement (CQI) process to assess and improve a phone-based model for post-overdose outreach in King County, Washington.
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