Development and Implementation of a 3-Week Whole-Food Plant-Based Vegan Diet Intervention for College Students.

Objective: To describe the research methods used for the Diet and Health Study, a pilot-feasibility study to assess the impact of a whole-food plant-based vegan diet on college students' physical and mental health.

Design: This 3-week theory-based pilot-feasibility study will employ a stratified, randomized control design (2 intervention groups and 1 comparison group) with measurement of primary and secondary outcomes at baseline and postintervention and end-of-study focus groups.

Setting: Southeastern public state university.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the co-management of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and coronary artery disease.

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has emerged as a public health threat as it affects approximately 38% of the adult population worldwide, with its prevalence rising in step with that of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Beyond the implications of MASLD for liver health, it is also associated with cardiovascular and vascular dysfunction. Although the many shared risk factors and common metabolic milieu might indicate that cardiovascular disease and MASLD are discrete outcomes from common systemic pathogeneses, a growing body of evidence has identified a potential causal relationship between MASLD and coronary artery disease, which is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in people with MASLD and all-cause mortality worldwide.

Undernutrition in Cleft Palate Surgery: Effects on Postoperative Fistula Formation in a Tertiary Children's Hospital in Southern Africa.

Background: Cleft palate surgery can be complicated by fistula development. It is well known that undernutrition in general leads to more postoperative complications. However, little is known about postoperative fistula development after cleft palate surgery in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC's).

Check with the Intended Audience First! Content Validation as a Method for Inclusive Research for Primary Care Engagement in Rural Appalachia.

Introduction: To date, referral practices based on social determinants of health (SDOH) among primary care providers (PCPs) and clinic staff in rural regions, including Appalachian North Carolina (NC), are not well understood.

Purpose: This study aims to develop and content validate a primary care engagement (PCE) survey to assess (1) engagement and burnout; (2) referral practices; and (3) self-efficacy and confidence in making referrals based on SDOH among PCPs and clinic staff in Appalachian NC.

Methods: Using the Social-Ecological Model as a theoretical framework, researchers developed a 37-item PCE survey.

Poxvirus vaccines: the evolution of an 18th-century vaccine to the 21st century.

The unprecedented global spread of monkeypox (mpox) has reinvigorated the pursuit of next-generation poxvirus vaccines. Given the success of the mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vaccine platform to vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2, candidate poxvirus mRNA vaccines, as recently reported by Zuiani et al. and Mucker et al.