Engaging Young Black Males in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care: A Review of the Literature.

Young Black males (YBM) ages 18 to 24 years are more at risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and have a substantially greater need for sexual reproductive health (SRH) services than other groups. Despite this significant need, the extant literature does not provide a comprehensive picture of how YBM seek preventive care services (e.g.

Necrotising enterocolitis-A 15-year outcome report from a UK specialist centre.

Aims: Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a disease associated with high mortality and morbidity, low birthweight and prematurity are risk factors. This study reports outcomes of babies having emergency laparotomy for NEC, examining institutional trends and exploring impact of multiple variables on mortality at 30 days and 1 year post-operatively.

Methods: Case records of babies with ICD coding for NEC were examined from 2000 to 2015.

Nurse Leaders' Response to Civil Unrest in the Urban Core.

Inequalities in society, culture, and finance have resulted in civil unrest, rioting, and intentional violence throughout our history. Nowhere is this currently more apparent than in the cities of Ferguson and Baltimore. It is not the civil unrest itself, but the resulting rioting and intentional violence that can create a disaster situation.

Childhood sexual abuse and two stages of cigarette smoking in African-American and European-American young women.

Objective: The aim of the current study was to determine whether the higher rates of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) but lower rates of cigarette smoking in African-American vs. European-American women can be explained in part by a lower magnitude of association between CSA and smoking in African-American women.

Methods: Data were drawn from a same-sex female twin study of substance use (n=3521; 14.