Evaluating the effect of a virtual reality digital therapeutic on maternal stress among expectant and postpartum Black and Latina mothers: a protocol paper.

Background: Maternal mental health is vital to overall well-being, particularly among expectant and postpartum Black and Latina women who experience higher stress levels and mental health challenges. Traditional healthcare systems often fail to meet these needs, underscoring the need for innovative and accessible interventions. NurtureVR, a digital maternal mental health and educational program, leverages virtual reality to offer mindfulness, relaxation, and guided imagery to support these women.

Exploring Implementation of Reasonable Adjustments in Hospitals for People With Intellectual Disability: Using a Realist Lens.

Aim: To explore the factors influencing the implementation of reasonable adjustments in hospitals for people with intellectual disability: using a realist lens.

Design: A qualitative study using a realist lens.

Methods: Data collection involved one focus group interview and three semi-structured interviews with healthcare professionals working in hospital or community settings in September 2023.

Enablers of and Barriers to Perinatal Mental Healthcare Access and Healthcare Provision for Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women in the WHO European Region: A Scoping Review.

Perinatal mental health is a growing public health concern. Refugee and asylum-seeking women are particularly susceptible to experiencing perinatal mental illness and may encounter a range of challenges in accessing healthcare. This scoping review sought to identify the enablers of and barriers to healthcare access and healthcare provision for refugee and asylum-seeking women experiencing perinatal mental illness in the WHO European Region.

"I Felt Dirty in a Way a Shower Wouldn't Fix": A Qualitative Examination of Sexual Trauma-Related Mental Contamination.

Trauma-related mental contamination (MC) is a distressing sense of dirtiness that arises absent a contaminant following a traumatic event. Existing work has linked MC to more severe posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among individuals with sexual trauma histories and has begun to characterize some aspects of the experience of trauma-related MC. However, a more nuanced understanding of how individuals experience and respond to trauma-related MC is lacking.

Nasal clear cell chondrosarcoma in a dog.

An intranasal tumour was diagnosed in a 5-year-old male neutered crossbreed dog following a 6-8 week history of intermittent epistaxis and nasal discharge. Computed tomography identified a mass in the right nasal cavity. Histologically, the mass was composed of sheets and indistinct clusters of predominantly clear or vacuolated round to polygonal cells; periodic acid-Schiff staining revealed glycogen granules within some tumour cells.

Progress towards the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets in the Fifth Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS V 2021): a nationally representative survey.

Background: In 2014, UNAIDS set a goal to end the AIDS epidemic by achieving targets for the percentage of people living with HIV who were aware of their status, on antiretroviral therapy (ART), and virally suppressed. In 2020, these targets were revised to 95% for each measure (known as 95-95-95), to be reached among people living with HIV by 2025. We used data from the Fifth Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS V) to measure progress towards these testing and treatment targets in Botswana.

Application of Novosorb biodegradable temporising matrix in wounds of different aetiologies: a case series.

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Microindentation of fresh soft biological tissue: A rapid tissue sectioning and mounting protocol.

Microindentation of fresh biological tissues is necessary for the creation of 3D biomimetic models that accurately represent the native extracellular matrix microenvironment. However, tissue must first be precisely sectioned into slices. Challenges exist in the preparation of fresh tissue slices, as they can tear easily and must be processed rapidly in order to mitigate tissue degradation.

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Fenestrated and Chimney/Snorkel Techniques for Endovascular Repair of Juxtarenal Aortic Aneurysms.

Objectives: Comparative effectiveness of fenestrated endovascular aneurysm repair (FEVAR) and chimney graft endovascular aneurysm repair (ChEVAR) for juxtarenal aortic aneurysms (JAAs) remains unclear. Our objective was to identify and analyze the current body of evidence comparing the effectiveness of both techniques for JAA.

Methods: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the effectiveness of FEVAR and ChEVAR for JAA repair.

Improvement in Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms Following an Internet-based Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Insomnia: An Open Trial among Rural Appalachian Women.

Appalachian women face significant health disparities and have limited access to health care. Mental health conditions and treatment-seeking are stigmatized in Appalachian communities. Appalachian women may benefit from web-based interventions targeting less stigmatized health complaints (e.

Validation of adult asthma case definitions for primary care sentinel surveillance.

Background: Most asthma diagnoses and patient care take place in primary care settings. Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer an opportunity to utilize technology to improve asthma diagnosis and care. The purpose of this study was to create and validate separate case definitions for suspected and confirmed asthma in primary care EMRs, to enable surveillance, benchmarking, and quality improvement in primary care settings.

Promising applications of phyto-fabricated silver nanoparticles: Recent trends in biomedicine.

The prospective contribution of phyto-nanotechnology to the synthesis of silver nanomaterials for biomedical purposes is attracting increasing interest across the world. Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) through plants has been extensively examined recently, and it is now seen to be a green and efficient path for future exploitation and development of practical nano-factories. Fabrication of Ag-NPs is the process involves use of plant extracts/phyto-compounds (e.

Feasibility of Using Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) to Collect Daily Experiences of Parent-Child Dyads: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Background: Intensive longitudinal data collection, including ecological momentary assessment (EMA), has the potential to reduce recall biases, collect more ecologically valid data, and increase our understanding of dynamic associations between variables. EMA is typically administered using an application that is downloaded on participants' devices, which presents cost and privacy concerns that may limit its use. Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), a web-based survey application freely available to nonprofit organizations, may allow researchers to overcome these barriers; however, at present, little guidance is available to researchers regarding the setup of EMA in REDCap, especially for those who are new to using REDCap or lack advanced programming expertise.

Virtual reality use and patient outcomes in palliative care: A scoping review.

Objective: Virtual reality is increasingly used in healthcare settings. Potentially, it's use in palliative carecould have a positive impact; however, there is limited evidence on the scope, purpose and patient outcomes relating to virtual reality use in this context. The objective of this scoping review is to chart the literature on virtual reality use in palliative care, identifying any evidence relating to biopsychosocial patient outcomes which could support its use in practice.

Venous Thromboembolism and Estrogen-Containing Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy.

Gender-affirming therapy involves the use of hormones to develop the physical characteristics of the identified gender and suppressing endogenous sex hormone production. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a known risk of exogenous estrogen therapy, and while evidence of VTE risk among transgender women using modern gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is still emerging, it is thought to affect up to 5% of transgender women. Historically, GAHT was associated with a high risk of VTE; however, modern preparations are less thrombogenic mainly due to significantly lower doses used as well as different preparations.

Chlorate Levels in Dairy Products Produced and Consumed in Ireland.

In recent years, chlorate has become a residue of concern internationally, due to the risk that it poses to thyroid gland function. However, little is known about its occurrence in dairy products of Irish origin. To address this, a study was conducted in which samples of milk ( = 317), cream ( = 199), butter ( = 178), cheese ( = 144) and yoghurt ( = 440) were collected from grocery stores in the Republic of Ireland.

Parents' perspectives on reasonable adjustments in acute healthcare for people with intellectual disability: A qualitative descriptive study.

Aim: To describe parents' perspectives on reasonable adjustments in acute healthcare for people with intellectual disability (ID).

Background: People with ID are vulnerable in terms of their health needs and marginalized when accessing and utilizing acute healthcare services. Reasonable adjustments are positive measures that can help alleviate health disparities.

Robust Sub-5 Nanometer bis(Diarylcarbene)-Based Thin Film for Molecular Electronics and Plasmonics.

In miniaturized electronic and optoelectronic circuits, molecular tunnel junctions have attracted enormous research interest due to their small footprint, low power consumption, and rich molecular functions. However, the most popular building blocks used in contemporary molecular tunnel junctions are thiol molecules, which attach to electrode surfaces via a metal-thiolate (MS) bond, showing low stability and usually quick degradation within several days. To pave the way for more widely applicable and stable molecular tunnel junctions, there is a need to develop new molecular anchoring groups.

Synthesis of fused tetramate-oxazolidine and -imidazolidine derivatives and their antibacterial activity.

A chemoselective route which provides direct access to bicyclic tetramates, making use of Dieckmann cyclisation of functionalised oxazolidines and imidazolidines derived from an aminomalonate, is reported; calculations suggest that the observed chemoselectivity is kinetically controlled and leads to the thermodynamically most stable product. Some compounds in the library showed modest antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria, and this activity is maximal in a well-defined region of chemical space (554 < < 722 g mol; 5.78 < cLogP < 7.

Tetramate derivatives by chemoselective Dieckmann ring closure of -phenylserines, and their antibacterial activity.

A general route which provides direct access to substituted bicyclic tetramates, making use of Dieckmann cyclisation of oxazolidine derivatives derived from -phenylserines, is reported. Of interest is the high level of diastereoselectivity observed for the -acylation reaction of oxazolidines and the complete chemoselectivity of their ring closure in the Dieckmann cyclisation. Significantly, the sense of the chemoselectivity is different to earlier reported -phenylserine systems, showing the importance of steric bulk around the bicyclic ring system.

Factors associated with viral suppression among adults living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Nigeria: Analysis of a population-based survey, 2018.

Objective: Viral load suppression (VLS) is critical in reducing morbidity and mortality associated with HIV as well as minimizing the likelihood of HIV transmission to uninfected persons. The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with VLS among people living with HIV (PLWH) on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to inform HIV programme strategies in Nigeria.

Methods: Adult participants, aged 15-64 years, from the 2018 Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS), who self-reported to be a PLWH or had detectable ARVs, were analysed to examine factors associated with VLS defined as HIV RNA <1000 copies/mL.