Innovative Strategies for Addressing Adolescent Health in Primary Care Through Telehealth.

With recent gains in telehealth access across health sectors, this editorial explores adolescent-specific health issues where innovative use of virtual care is improving outcomes and access for adolescents. These include contraception, obesity, gender-affirming care, mental health, and eating disorder care. Clinicians caring for adolescents should be aware of advances in this field to maximize opportunities for their patients to receive evidence-based care in a manner that supports health equity and confidentiality concerns while understanding the evolving regulatory landscape of telehealth.

Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji: Inferences of co-, pro-, and post-text emoji.

Emoji symbols are widely used in online communication, particularly in instant messaging and on social media platforms. Existing research draws comparisons between the functions of emoji and those of gestures, with recent work extending a proposed typology of gestures to emoji, arguing that different emoji types can be distinguished by their placement within the modified text and by their semantic contribution (the linguistic inferences that they give rise to). In this paper, we present four experiments designed to test the predictions of this extended typology, the results of which suggest that emoji symbols indeed trigger the hypothesised linguistic inferences.

21st Century Cures Act ONC Rule: Implications for Adolescent Care and Confidentiality Protections.

Ensuring the confidentiality and protection of health information is the standard of care for adolescents. In 2023 and beyond, the protection of personal health information is more critical than ever. The 21st Century Cures Act Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Rule, with its requirements for the broad sharing of electronic health information and ban on "information blocking," poses serious concerns for confidentiality in adolescent health care delivery.

Co-linguistic content inferences: From gestures to sound effects and emoji.

Among other uses, co-speech gestures can contribute additional semantic content to the spoken utterances with which they coincide. A growing body of research is dedicated to understanding how inferences from gestures interact with logical operators in speech, including negation ("not"/"n't"), modals (e.g.

Louisiana Pharmacies' Availability of Emergency Contraception and Counseling Accuracy to Adolescent and Physician Callers.

Study Objective: Adolescents face many barriers to obtaining emergency contraception (EC), despite it being an approved and recommended method to prevent unintended pregnancy. This study examined pharmacy-related barriers to adolescents' access to EC in Louisiana.

Design: Prospective, telephone-call secret shopper study to pharmacies to assess same-day EC availability and barriers to purchase.