The impact of climate change and related extreme weather on people with limb loss.

The human health consequences of climate change and extreme weather events are well documented. Published literature details the unique effects and necessary adaptation planning for people with physical disabilities in general; however, the specific impacts and plans for people with limb loss have yet to be explored. In this article, we discuss the impacts related to threats due to heat, cold, severe storms, and power outages.

A National Voter Registration Campaign.

Research suggests that increased voting among adults is associated with improved child health. Despite the benefits of voting, the United States has low voter turnout compared with peer nations. Turnout is especially low among marginalized people in the United States.

The development of rating scales to evaluate experiential prosthetic foot preference for people with lower limb amputation.

Background: Selection of a foot is an important aspect of prosthetic prescription and vital to maximizing mobility and functional goals after lower limb amputation. Development of a standardized approach to soliciting user experiential preferences is needed to improve evaluation and comparison of prosthetic feet.

Objective: To develop rating scales to assess prosthetic foot preference and to evaluate use of these scales in people with transtibial amputation after trialing different prosthetic feet.

The Vot-ER Healthy Democracy Campaign: A National Medical Student Competition to Increase Voting Access.

Problem: Voting affords citizens a direct say in the leaders and policies that affect their health. However, less than 20% of eligible U.S.

Regulatory involvement of the PerR and SloR metalloregulators in the oxidative stress response.

is a commensal of the human oral microbiome that can promote dental caries under conditions of dysbiosis. This study investigates metalloregulators and their involvement in the oxidative stress response. Oxidative stress in the human mouth can derive from temporal increases in reactive oxygen species (ROS) after meal consumption and from endogenous bacterial ROS-producers that colonize the dentition.