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J Eat Disord
January 2025
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Improvements to eating disorder (ED) care are urgently needed in the United Kingdom (UK) and around the world. Informed by my lived experiences, independent research, and involvement in the underappreciated field of quality improvement (QI), I have written this article to offer ideas on how to improve individuals' access to and experiences of ED care. As I live in the UK, my lived and QI experiences are of the UK's National Health Service (NHS).
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January 2025
Department of Public Health, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Indigenous communities worldwide continue to disproportionately bear the burden during pandemics due to ongoing health inequities and systemic exclusion from pandemic decision-making processes. As the global community prepares for the next pandemic, it is critical to prioritise Indigenous leadership and governance within public health responses. This commentary highlights successful models of Indigenous-led pandemic responses during COVID-19 in Canada and Australia.
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January 2025
Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease and Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Tamoxifen is the mainstay treatment for estrogen-positive breast cancer for over half a century. However, a significant proportion of patients experience disease recurrence due to treatment failure attributed to various factors, including disease pathology, genetics, and drug metabolism. Alam et al.
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January 2025
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
The treatment gap for eating disorders varies significantly across healthcare systems owing to structural, cultural, and systemic barriers. A recent systematic review by Ali et al. highlighted this disparity, with treatment rates ranging from 2.
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January 2025
OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, New Rochelle, New York, USA.
UN Women is the United Nations "entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women". UN Women is an example of the institutions of global governance that followed the gender turn in women's rights over the past 2 decades. This opinion commentary unpacks a brief history of UN Women, and the ongoing disparities in gender diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in science, engineering, and medicine, not to mention in science communication, with the aim to shed light on the adverse impacts of gender essentialism and gender binary.
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