Reaching High-Need Youth Populations With Evidence-Based Sexual Health Education in California.

Objectives: To explore the programmatic reach and experience of high-need adolescents who received sexual health education in 3 distinct implementation settings (targeted-prevention settings, traditional schools, and alternative schools) through a statewide sexual health education program.

Methods: Data are from youth surveys collected between September 2013 and December 2014 in the California Personal Responsibility Education Program. A sample of high-need participants (n = 747) provided data to examine the impact of implementation setting on reach and program experience.

Performance of first-year health sciences students in a large, diverse, multidisciplinary, first-semester, physiology service module.

Health Science students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal perform better in their professional modules compared with their physiology modules. The pass rates of physiology service modules have steadily declined over the years. While a system is in place to identify "at-risk" students, it is only activated after the first semester.

Age effects on blood gas, spirometry, airway reactivity, and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cytology in clinically healthy horses.

Background: Despite the increasing number of geriatric horses attended by veterinarians, there is a lack of understanding of aging-related changes on the respiratory system of horses.

Objective: To identify aging-related changes on the respiratory function and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) cytology of horses.

Animals: Fifteen healthy young adult (2-11 years) and 16 healthy aged (≥20 years) horses.

Early childhood lead exposure and academic achievement: evidence from Detroit public schools, 2008-2010.

Objectives: We assessed the long-term effect of early childhood lead exposure on academic achievement in mathematics, science, and reading among elementary and junior high school children.

Methods: We linked early childhood blood lead testing surveillance data from the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion to educational testing data from the Detroit, Michigan, public schools. We used the linked data to investigate the effect of early childhood lead exposure on academic achievement among school-aged children, both marginally and adjusted for grade level, gender, race, language, maternal education, and socioeconomic status.