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Making health literacy real: adult literacy and medical students teach each other

Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2009
This paper reports a pilot project at Harvard Medical School (HMS) that taught medical students the importance of plain language communication by collaborating with adult literacy students. Classes provided students with patient-doctor communication experience and health information.
Jean, Hess, Julia S, Whelan
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Trauma‐Informed Practice in Welfare‐to‐Work and Employment Services: A Scoping Review

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition within welfare services, including employment services, that many participants may have histories of trauma. Research suggests that experiences of trauma not only impact individuals' psychosocial health but also vocational elements such as job performance, employability, career progression, and financial ...
Emily Corbett, Michael McGann, Mark Considine, René Rejón   +3 more
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
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Urban-Rural Differences in the Association of eHealth Literacy With Medication Adherence Among Older People With Frailty and Prefrailty: Cross-Sectional Study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
BackgroundWith advances in science and technology and improvements in health literacy, more studies have focused on frailty prevention by promoting medication adherence, emphasizing the role of eHealth literacy.
Ying Guo, Zixuan Hong, Chenglin Cao, Wenwen Cao, Ren Chen, Jing Yan, Zhi Hu, Zhongliang Bai   +7 more
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Metformin enhances external urethral sphincter integrity and restores continence via AMPK activation in a rat model of stress urinary incontinence

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
The pathogenesis of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is intimately associated with injury to the external urethral sphincter (EUS). In this study, we established an SUI model induced by double vaginal distension and demonstrated that metformin treatment activated the AMPK signaling in the EUS tissue.
Yuting Xu, Xuhong Li, Alvaro Munoz, Li Jiang, Lihua Huang, Yanhua Zhou, Liping Zhu, Youbo Yang   +7 more
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Serious Infections in Offspring Exposed to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors During Pregnancy: Comparison of Timing During Pregnancy and Placental Transfer Ability

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective We evaluated serious infection risk in offspring exposed to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) in utero, separated by TNFi timing and placental transfer ability. Methods Using MarketScan (2011–2021), we identified offspring born to mothers with chronic inflammatory diseases.
Leah K. Flatman, Sasha Bernatsky, Yvan St‐Pierre, Marie‐Eve Beauchamp, Isabelle Malhamé, Anick Bérard, Évelyne Vinet   +6 more
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The impact of COVID‐19 pre‐university education on first‐grade medical students. A performance study of students of a Department of Histology

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 254-263, March 2025.
Abstract The recent coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) forced pre‐university professionals to modify the educational system. This work aimed to determine the effects of pandemic situation on students' access to medical studies by comparing the performance of medical students.
José Manuel García, David Sánchez‐Porras, Miguel Etayo‐Escanilla, Paula Ávila‐Fernández, Olimpia Ortiz‐Arrabal, Miguel‐Ángel Martín‐Piedra, Fernando Campos, Óscar‐Darío García‐García, Jesús Chato‐Astrain, Miguel Alaminos   +9 more
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Using artificial intelligence thanabots as “thanatobots” to assist anatomy learning and professional development: Ghosts masquerading as opportunity?

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Thanabots—AI‐generated digital representations of deceased donors—could enhance anatomy education by linking medical history with anatomy and fostering humanistic engagement. However, their use poses ethical questions and carries psychological risks, including issues around consent, authenticity, and emotional harm.
Jon Cornwall, Sabine Hildebrandt
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Association between health literacy and medication adherence in patients with hypertension: a cross-sectional study

Scientific Reports
This study aimed to determine the levels of medication adherence and health literacy among patients with hypertension at a family health center in eastern Türkiye. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted in a family health center with 200
Papatya Karakurt, Sonay Bilgin, Selen Özdemir   +2 more
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Information retrieval or document retrieval? Terminological confusions and unrealistic goals in information science, exemplified in relation to generative artificial intelligence

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract ChatGPT and related technologies have revived an old issue in information science (IS) concerning information retrieval (IR) versus document retrieval. Since 1950, the term IR has primarily been used as a misnomer for document retrieval. This problematic terminology reflects a desire to go beyond documents and provide, in response to user ...
Birger Hjørland
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