Publications by authors named "Kara Fisher"

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  • Increasing the diversity of the cardiology workforce can enhance talent and help reduce healthcare disparities among populations.
  • A study analyzed the demographics of cardiology physicians in the U.S. by sex and race/ethnicity from 2006 to 2016, revealing significant underrepresentation of female cardiologists, especially in adult general and procedural fellowships.
  • While the percentage of female cardiologists has gradually increased, the representation of underrepresented minorities in adult and pediatric cardiology fellowships showed only slight improvements during the same period.
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This study aimed to quantify human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Twitter messaging addressing gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GB+MSM) and describes messaging by vaccine sentiment (attitudes towards vaccine) and characteristics (topic of messaging). Between August 2014 and July 2015, we collected 193ā€‰379 HPV-related tweets and classified them by vaccine sentiment and characteristics. We analysed a subsample of tweets containing the terms 'gay', 'bisexual' and 'MSM' (Nā€‰=ā€‰2306), and analysed distributions of sentiment and characteristics using chi-square.

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Introduction: We conducted this study to quantify how health professionals use Twitter to communicate about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.

Methods: We collected 193,379 tweets from August 2014 through July 2015 that contained key words related to HPV vaccine. We classified all tweets on the basis of user, audience, sentiment, content, and vaccine characteristic to examine 3 groups of tweets: 1) those sent by health professionals, 2) those intended for parents, and 3) those sent by health professionals and intended for parents.

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Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. There are several vaccines that protect against strains of HPV most associated with cervical and other cancers. Thus, HPV vaccination has become an important component of adolescent preventive health care.

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Prenatal hypoxia-ischemia to the developing brain has been strongly implicated in the subsequent development of the hypertonic motor deficits of cerebral palsy (CP) in premature and full-term infants who present with neonatal encephalopathy. Despite the enormous impact of CP, there is no animal model that reproduces the hypertonia and motor disturbances of this disorder. We report a rabbit model of in utero placental insufficiency, in which hypertonia is accompanied by marked abnormalities in motor control.

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