Communicating with health providers and romantic partners: The impact of negative emotions on quality of life for individuals with hidradenitis suppurativa.

Unlabelled: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, inflammatory, debilitating skin disease that impacts an estimated 1 to 4% of the population; women are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. There is no cure for HS, and many patients face a lifetime of various healthcare appointments, medical interventions, and personal experiences living with the disease.

Objective: This study aimed to explore social, emotional, and medical experiences for individuals with HS, and to understand connections between those experiences and quality of life.

"It makes it more real": Examining ambiguous fetal meanings in abortion care.

The role of fetal development in abortion work is unresolved, mirroring a broader cultural ambivalence regarding the fetus. The collective, cultural notion of fetuses tends to lie on a dichotomy between "clump of cells" and "baby," with little public attention to the realities of fetal development during all stages of pregnancy. This tension is exacerbated by an absence of medically accurate images of aborted fetal tissue available to lay audiences.

The option to look: patient-centred pregnancy tissue viewing at independent abortion clinics in the United States.

Abortion providers' approaches to patient-centred pregnancy tissue viewing (PCV) - when a patient requests to see their products of conception - is understudied in abortion care. This mixed-method study aimed to identify: (1) if, when, and how PCV is facilitated at US independent abortion clinics; (2) how staff are trained to offer viewing; and (3) provider experiences facilitating PCV. We surveyed administrators from 22 independent abortion clinics affiliated with the Abortion Care Network about their PCV practices and then completed in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 providers to better understand their experiences facilitating PCV.