Mapping pharmacy deserts in North Carolina: A geospatial analysis and its implications for University of North Carolina Health's catchment population.

Background: Pharmacy deserts represent areas where residents face notable challenges to accessing pharmacies. North Carolina (NC) presents an intriguing case study due to its diverse geographic landscape yet lacks extensive research regarding its pharmacy deserts.

Objectives: This study aims to map pharmacy deserts in NC using pharmacy location and social determinants of health (SDOH) data measured using the social vulnerability index (SVI) and descriptively characterize health care utilization statistics for University of North Carolina (UNC) Health's catchment population.

Mitochondrial complex I promotes kidney cancer metastasis.

Most kidney cancers are metabolically dysfunctional, but how this dysfunction affects cancer progression in humans is unknown. We infused C-labelled nutrients in over 80 patients with kidney cancer during surgical tumour resection. Labelling from [U-C]glucose varies across subtypes, indicating that the kidney environment alone cannot account for all tumour metabolic reprogramming.

Should tobacco sales be restricted to state-run alcohol outlets? Perspectives from 10 US alcohol control states.

Background And Aims: The ubiquity of tobacco retailers helps to sustain the tobacco epidemic. A tobacco retail reduction approach that has not been tried is transitioning tobacco sales to state-controlled alcohol stores (TTS), which are limited in number and operate under some restrictions, e.g.

Patient Characteristics Associated With Phone and Video Visits at a Tele-Urgent Care Center During the Initial COVID-19 Response: Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Health systems rapidly adopted telemedicine as an alternative health care delivery modality in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Demographic factors, such as age and gender, may play a role in patients' choice of a phone or video visit. However, it is unknown whether there are differences in utilization between phone and video visits.