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Commentary: A Community Organizing Model for Advancing CHW Workforce Sustainability
No full textCommunity health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in advancing health equity, improving health outcomes, and addressing the social determinants of health. However, funding for CHW positions and supportive policy infrastructure to sustain a thriving CHW workforce remain elusive. This commentary provides a definition of CHW workforce sustainability and an overview of how a CHW-led national training and technical assistance center used a community organizing framework to build the capacity of CHWs and their allies to advance local sustainability efforts. The model includes four key objectives: (1) grow CHW leadership and policy capacity, (2) build strong relationships and partnerships, (3) establish supportive systems and policies, and (4) implement diverse financing mechanisms. It also offers a conceptual model to illustrate the steps CHWs can take to lead local efforts to advance CHW workforce sustainability
Health Sciences History: Challenges, Solutions, Research and Projects
No full textLouisiana Library Association Annual Conference 202
Revisiting the 64th: Assessing and Updating a Historical Collection with New Technologies
No full textBackground: In November 1940, the LSU Medical Center organized the 64th US Army General Hospital to serve in the Mediterranean from 1943 to 1945. In the 1970s, members of the unit donated approximately 3000 items to a faculty member, who then donated that collection to the LSU Health Libraries; it comprises photographs, newsletters, Army reports, interviews, and correspondences. In 2011, the Libraries faculty & staff undertook digitizing and describing the collection. In 2025, given the advances made in technology since the original project, it was decided to reassess both the physical and digital versions of the collection.
Description: This presentation details several aspects of the project: digitized documents were evaluated for accessibility, online image searches of noteworthy photographs were conducted, select documents were uploaded to the institutional AI application to generate a synopsis and test character recognition capabilities, photographs still mounted on scrapbook pages were removed, the versos scanned and descriptive text added to the metadata. Description: This presentation details several aspects of the project: digitized documents were evaluated for accessibility, online image searches of noteworthy photographs were conducted, select documents were uploaded to the institutional AI application to generate a synopsis and test character recognition capabilities, photographs still mounted on scrapbook pages were removed, the versos scanned and descriptive text added to the metadata. Conclusion: Advances in technology and new standards in accessibility warranted a review of a historical institutional collection. The expectation that richer descriptions would be discovered proved true which benefits future researchers as well as the custodial institution. Assessments and interventions ensured the longevity of an important piece of institutional history while also preparing it for a wider audience
Does Economic Status Influence Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma?
No full text107th AAOMS Annual Meeting, September 15 -20, 2025, Washington, D
Antisense therapy improves photoreceptor cell function and halts Müller activation in USH1C mice
No full textAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, ARVO 2025, May 4-8, 2025, Salt Lake City, U
Cell-Specific Genetic Dysfunctions in Age- Related Macular Degeneration Revealed by Spatial Transcriptomics
No full textAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, ARVO 2025, May 4-8, 2025, Salt Lake City, U
Evaluating coordination and quality of care among veterans receiving posttraumatic stress disorder care in the community
No full textDespite an increase in the number of veterans receiving posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) care in the community, little work has examined the coordination and quality of care, particularly as it relates to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) standards. To this end, the current project sought to document community care characteristics among veterans receiving outpatient psychotherapy services for PTSD. Specifically, the coordination of care and congruency with VA standards were examined. Data, which were collected over a 2-year period from a VA hospital in the southeastern United States, included 123 PTSD community care consults across 103 unique veterans (Mage = 47.80 years, SD = 12.03; 72.4% Male; 50.4% Black). The majority of consults were new referrals for care (62.6%) due to the clinical service not being available or the average drive time to the nearest VA facility exceeding 30 min (77.2%). Regarding the coordination of care, records were not available for 27.6% of consults. Among veterans with treatment records, most were seen for an intake and psychotherapy (38.2%), followed by intake only and psychotherapy only. Formal diagnostic assessments were not documented in any intake records, with 21.2% of psychotherapy records documenting the use of a first-line treatment for PTSD. Notably, most intake records (56.1%) failed to document any assessment of suicide risk, and no psychotherapy records indicated the loss of a PTSD diagnosis. The findings highlight gaps in the coordination and quality of care, particularly as it relates to VA standards, for veterans receiving PTSD care in the community
IL-17 Inhibitors vs. methotrexate in preventing new-onset psoriatic arthritis in psoriasis patients: a retrospective population-level analysis
No full textSociety for Investigative Dermatology (SID) 2025, May 7 - 10, 2025, San Diego, C
Lung Cancer Outcomes Associated With Social Vulnerability
No full textAmerican Thoracic Society International Conference, ATS 2025, May 16 - 21, 2025, San Francisco, C
One Dose versus Three Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G in Early Syphilis
No full textBACKGROUND: Controversy persists regarding the appropriate duration of therapy with benzathine penicillin G in persons with early (i.e., primary, secondary, or early latent) syphilis (Treponema pallidum infection). METHODS: In a multicenter, randomized, controlled, noninferiority trial, we assigned persons who had early syphilis, with or without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, to receive intramuscular injections of benzathine penicillin G in a one-time dose of 2.4 million units or in doses of 2.4 million units administered at three successive weekly intervals. The primary end point was seroreversion to nonreactive status or a decrease in the rapid plasma reagin titer by two or more dilutions at 6 months, referred to here as a serologic response (noninferiority margin, 10 percentage points). A key secondary end point was a serologic response within subgroups defined according to HIV status, also assessed in a noninferiority analysis. RESULTS: A total of 249 persons with early syphilis were enrolled. Most participants were men (97%), 62% were Black, and 153 (61%) were living with HIV infection. The distribution according to syphilis stage was 19% with primary syphilis, 47% with secondary syphilis, and 33% with early latent syphilis. The percentage of participants with a serologic response at 6 months was 76% (95% confidence interval [CI], 68 to 82) in the single-dose group and 70% (95% CI, 61 to 77) in the three-dose group (difference, -6 percentage points; 90% CI, -15 to 3, indicating noninferiority). No clinical relapse or treatment failure occurred in either group. In the one-dose group, a serologic response at 6 months was observed in 76% of participants who had HIV infection and 76% of those who did not, and in the three-dose group, a serologic response at 6 months was observed in 71% of participants who had HIV infection and 70% of those who did not. Most participants in each group had local injection-site pain and tenderness with treatment (76% with a single dose and 85% with three doses). CONCLUSIONS: Treatment with one dose of 2.4 million units of benzathine penicillin G was noninferior to treatment with three doses with regard to serologic response 6 months after treatment. (Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03637660.)