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Effect of Membrane Perforations With and Without Collagen Membrane Coverage in Vertical Ridge Augmentation: An Experimental Pilot In Vivo Study

Clinical Oral Implants Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Given the proposed bioactive role of collagen membranes, we aimed to evaluate whether the perforation size of titanium‐reinforced dPTFE membranes, with or without an additional collagen membrane, influences outcomes of vertical alveolar ridge augmentation (VARA).
Istvan A. Urban, Sándor Farkasdi, Muhammad H. A. Saleh, Monica Lopez, Fernando Muñoz, Gabor Varga, Mauricio G. Araujo, Fabio Vignoletti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association Between Opioid Dosage Tapering and Opioid Overdose Among Long-Term Higher-Dose Opioid Users

AJPM Focus
Introduction: There has been a steady decline in the national opioid-dispensing rate in recent years. However, emerging evidence that suggests that abrupt discontinuation of opioids for pain may increase overdose risk.
Hui Zhou, PhD, Katherine J. Pak, MS, Fagen Xie, PhD, Craig K. Chang, MD, Patricia L. Gray, PharmD, Deborah S. Ling-Grant, PhD, Joanna L. Barreras, PhD, MSW, Steven G. Steinberg, MD, Rulin C. Hechter, MD, PhD   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Achieving Cancer Prevention Equity: A Policy Analysis of American Cancer Society HPV Vaccination Guidelines

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To examine the American Cancer Society's HPV vaccination guidelines through a nursing policy analysis framework, assessing justice and equity outcomes in cancer prevention policy implementation. Background Human papillomavirus vaccination remains critical for cancer prevention, yet persistent health disparities undermine equity goals ...
Grace K. Kyei, Evans K. Kyei, Rockson Ansong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Impacts of Housing Instability on Intimate Partner Violence, Adverse Health and Risk Behaviours Among Women

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To examine associations between housing instability and intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure, adverse mental health, sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV incidence, and substance use among women across the U.S. and its territories. Design Cross‐sectional analysis of data from the American Women: Assessing Risk Epidemiologically
Claudia L. Michaels, Jianfang Liu, Jean Jimenez, Maeve Brin, Nancy Glass, Amy K. Johnson, Mirjam‐Colette Kempf, Rebecca Schnall   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guideline for Medication Management of Distressing Symptoms in Older Patients Receiving End‐of‐Life Palliative Care

Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Older patients receiving end‐of‐life palliative care often present with multiple geriatric syndromes, frailty, and comorbid symptom burden, resulting in a high risk of medication‐related harm. This guideline focuses on pharmacological management of distressing symptoms in older patients receiving end‐of‐life or hospice‐oriented palliative care,
Daiping Li, Yanwu Yang, Yan Zhang, Jirong Yue, Birong Dong, Meiling Ge, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital of Sichuan University   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Breastfeeding in the Setting of Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder

Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies have shown that many pregnant women with opioid use disorder intend to initiate breastfeeding after giving birth. However, continuation rates beyond the initial postpartum hospitalization are low. Achieving and maintaining an antepartum breastfeeding plan may be complicated by the unique challenges that opioid‐exposed dyads experience ...
Lindsey A. Baksh, Stephanie M. Hartwig
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative study of police officers’ knowledge of the relationship between police opioid seizures and subsequent risk of overdose

Health & Justice
People who use opioids (PWUO) have asserted police opioid seizures increase risk of overdose in their proximate aftermath. Ecological studies and causal models exhibit a positive association between police opioid seizures and overdose risk.
Brandon del Pozo, Erin Thompson, Alina Whiteside   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Veterinary Pharmaceutical Safety Competencies for New Graduates: Description of an Interprofessional Simulated Learning Activity

Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The misuse and abuse of veterinary anesthetic and analgesic agents pose significant public health risks, particularly with the growing presence of ultrapotent opioids and other anesthetics in the illicit drug trade. In response, there is increasing emphasis on incorporating medication safety training into veterinary curricula.
Margene Anderson, Carrie Schroeder, Kristopher M. Schroeder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
wiley   +1 more source

That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source