New York State Department of Health

“We would love to offer everything:” findings from a qualitative study of syringe exchange program staff on integrating sexual and reproductive health care into New York State syringe exchange programs

Abstract Background People who use drugs (PWUD) are a marginalized population who face barriers seeking reproductive health care in a culture that stigmatizes both drug use and reproductive health care. Syringe Service Programs (SSPs) were created to slow the spread of HIV among...

Intra-individual variability of urinary non-persistent chemical concentrations during pregnancy in the ECHO Cohort

Studies of prenatal exposure to non-persistent chemicals often assume biomarker measurements from a single urine sample can represent exposure pregnancy. The validity of this assumption depends on biomarker concentration variability across gestation, which is not well-characteriz...

Rapid and specific identification of emerging Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII using an in-house developed and validated real-time PCR assay

ABSTRACT Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII ( Tm VII) is an emerging dermatophyte, primarily associated with sexual transmission, that causes persistent, painful, and inflammatory skin lesions. Tm VII is part of the T. interdigitale/T. mentagrophytes species complex, which...

Mixture-of-prompt experts for federated sentiment classification under non-IID data

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative text classification while preserving data privacy, yet its performance can be degraded under non-IID data. This challenge is particularly severe in natural language processing, where client data may differ in linguistic style, topic d...

Anaplasma phagocytophilum Variant 1 from White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Feeding Ixodes scapularis Larvae

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is a tick-borne bacterium and the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Two major variants have been identified in North America: a human pathogenic variant (Ap-ha) that is maintained by small mammals and a nonpathogenic variant (Ap-v1) tha...