Abstract Background We designed and implemented an educational campaign using social media to provide information about HIV risk prevention Black heterosexual women (BHW) promote PrEP awareness enhance their relationships with clinicians. Methods In July August 2021, 3 physician influencers who are large audiences shared content focusing on sexual health Instagram TikTok links 2 surveys. An acc...

Component-based models represent a dominant trend in the construction of wide-area network applications, making possible the integration of diverse functionality contained in modules distributed across the network. Although linkages between modules have traditionally been specified statically, a growing number of frameworks are investigating approaches where appropriate components are dynamical...

OBJECTIVES The objective was to engage health professions students as leaders in spreading the World Health Organization Surgical Checklist. The published impact of the checklist in reducing surgical complications and deaths, combined with its ease of use, offers an ideal target for students to save lives and prevent suffering. As members of the "Check a Box. Save a Life." campaign, students ca...

Six candidates for the election of the next WHO Director-General will present their vision to representatives of WHO Member States and Associate Members at a candidates’ forum this month. The six candidates proposed by their respective governments: are Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia), Flavia Bustreo (Italy), Philippe DousteBlazy (France), David Nabarro (United Kingdom of Great Britain and...

eXtension (pronounced e-extension) is an online resource transforming how faculty can collaborate and deliver equine education. As the first Community of Practice launched from eXtension, HorseQuest (HQ) offers free, interactive, peer-reviewed, online resources on a variety of equine-related topics at http://www.extension.org. This group has adapted traditional educational content to the online...

What was once the ultimate in the fleeting world of ephemera, the tweet, is now being archived by the most august library in the land. The Library of Congress is archiving about 500 million tweets per day, up from 140 million per day just two years ago. As Twitter processes 58 million tweets per day, this is still only about ten times the number of tweets that continue to be tweeted every day. ...

TO THE EDITOR: A causal connection between alcoholic mothers and developmental delays and physical abnormalities in their babies was identified in the 1970s and termed fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Other less extreme but still disabling effects fall under the umbrella term of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Some studies have found higher prevalences of FAS among indigenous children in s...

The CERN IT department has built over the years a performant and integrated ecosystem of collaboration tools, from videoconference and webcast services to event management software. These services have been designed and evolved in very close collaboration with the various communities surrounding the laboratory and have been massively adopted by CERN users. To cope with this very heavy usage, gl...

Editorial " The poor fare worse than the better-off almost everywhere and with respect to nearly every indicator " [1] O f all the different types of health inequalities that have been documented, such as male–female, urban–rural, or the variations in health across ethnic groups, the largest health gap is between the rich and the poor [1]. Today PLoS Medicine publishes a special collection of a...

We read with interest the recent review of 6 European studies of the Woven EndoBridge (WEB) aneurysm embolization system (Sequent Medical, Aliso Viejo, California) for the treatment of wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms (WNBA). The WEB was introduced in 2010 in Europe and has undergone important evolution during the past 5 years. The devices involved have moved from dual-layer to single-layer cons...