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Transgend Health
December 2024
Fenway Health, The Fenway Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Purpose: Transgender and nonbinary adults (TNB) are disproportionately burdened by sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This study investigated whether gender-affirming hormone therapy was associated with TNB adults' odds of screening for STI and HIV.
Methods: Longitudinal data came from the electronic medical records of TNB primary care patients receiving care at two community health centers located in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York, between January 2013 and December 2019.
Front Reprod Health
December 2024
Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Office of Program Impact, Monitoring, and Epidemiology (PRIME), U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, United States.
Background: In 2023, an estimated 1.3 million people newly acquired HIV. In the same year, 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInjury
December 2024
Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Emergency Medicine, Mitchells Plain District Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Introduction: Trauma is a major contributor to global disease burden, disproportionally affecting low- and middle-income countries, especially in the African Region. Emergency centre thoracotomy (ECT) is a potentially life-saving procedure for a sub-group of trauma patients in extremis. Most literature regarding ECT originated in high-income countries.
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December 2024
From the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
Objectives: Delayed diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children may result in complex appendicitis with appendiceal perforation. Delayed diagnosis can result from missed opportunity for initial diagnosis (MOID) despite medical attention. Studies report MOID of less than 5% in pediatric emergency departments (EDs), but we hypothesized that many MOID occurs outside tertiary care facilities.
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December 2024
School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland. Electronic address:
Background: Globally, there is a rapidly increasing proportion of women studying and practising healthcare. This has been accompanied by a reducing proportion of males in most healthcare professions. This has been a contributory factor to the decreasing health staffing due to the tendency of females to work fewer hours and leave their profession earlier.
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