University of Maryland, Baltimore

“My heart is at peace because I know that I am protected:” understanding the factors that facilitate adolescent girls and young women’s uptake of long-acting injectable PrEP in Zambia

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in EASTERN AND SOUTHERN Africa face a disproportionate risk of HIV acquisition. While effective, uptake of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among this population has remained inadequate. Hypothetical preference...

Moving From Laboratory to Clinical Metrics for Diagnostic Tests

This Viewpoint explores the distinction between analytical and diagnostic performance measures.

Contemporary Treatment Patterns in Surgically Treated Temporal Bone Cancer

OBJECTIVES: To characterize the sociodemographic features of patients with temporal bone carcinoma and evaluate current treatment patterns. METHODS: This study analyzed data from the Cosmos database (2015-2024) to identify patients with surgically treated temporal bone malignanci...

From Policy to Practice: A Statewide Model to Expand School-Community Mental Health Partnerships

Abstract Schools are a primary access point for youth mental health services, yet most lack the sustained funding, infrastructure, and partnerships needed to build comprehensive and equitable systems of care. State policy offers a mechanism to address these limitations, but there...

Acceptability and Feasibility of a Primary Care Hypoglycemia Prevention Program: A Pilot Study

OBJECTIVE Hypoglycemia, a major cause of morbidity for people with diabetes, is underrecognized in primary care, leading to underuse of risk mitigation strategies. This study reports the development and acceptability/feasibility testing of the Hypoglycemia Prevention Program (HPP...

Fertility in the Shadow of Cancer: Experiences of Reproductive Loss Among Women with Gynecological Cancers in Ghana

Abstract Background Gynecological cancers and their treatments can compromise fertility, with profound psychosocial consequences for women of reproductive age. Yet, women’s lived experiences of cancer-related infertility remain underexplored in low-resource settings, including Gh...

Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy vs Moderately Hypofractionated IMRT for Localized Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer

Importance The treatment of prostate cancer with radiotherapy is evolving. How quickly radiotherapy can be delivered, and the relative risks and benefits of such a treatment, is of significant public interest. Objective To determine whether stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) w...

Community-Led Operationalization of a Champion Implementation Strategy for Anal Cancer Prevention in Nigeria

Abstract Context-specific adaptation of implementation strategies is an important component of promoting evidence-based intervention use. But guidance on systematic approaches is limited. Here we described our mixed method approach to adapting (Study 1) and monitoring (Study 2) a...

Challenges in the clinical learning environment: experiences of final-year nursing students in a tertiary institution in Ghana

Clinical practicum is central to nursing education, yet suboptimal Clinical Learning Environments can hinder competence development and readiness for practice. Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa remains limited, particularly on final-year students approaching transition to practice...

Projected lives saved and economic value of mRNA cancer immunotherapies in the United States

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology helped prevent millions of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and is emerging as a promising cancer treatment modality. Early-phase trials suggest mRNA immunotherapies can improve overall and recurrence-free survival. However, the U.S. Department...

AspirationPatch Proteomics Enables CE–ESI–MSProteotyping of Identified Single Neurons in Intact Brain Tissue

Abstract Direct proteome analysis of identified neurons in intact brain tissue remains limited by the difficulty of recovering intracellular material while preserving native tissue context and avoiding physical extraction of the intact soma. Here, we establish aspiration patch pr...

Scalable ω‐Substituted α‐Olefins via Living Chain Transfer Telomerization: A Platform for Next Generation Polyolefins

ABSTRACT Isomerically pure, ω‐substituted α‐olefins of general structure, X‐(CH 2 ) m (CH 2 CH 2 ) n ‐1 CH = CH 2 ( m = 0 or 1; X = alkyl or aryl) ( 3 ), have been produced in practical and scalable quantities as narrow Poisson molar mass distributions of separable n ‐mers (e.g....

Identificationof the Site of the Fe–S Clusterin CPSF30 via Metal-Coupled Oxidation-Mass Spectrometry

Abstract Cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor 30 (CPSF30) is a zinc finger protein that plays a key role in pre-mRNA processing by recognizing specific AU-rich sequence elements to facilitate polyadenylation. CPSF30 contains five highly conserved domains made up of thr...

Cost-Effectiveness of Endovascular vs Open Surgery for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia

Importance: Choosing between endovascular and open (bypass) surgical revascularization for chronic limb-threatening ischemia has major implications for clinical practice. Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of endovascular vs bypass surgical revascularization. Design, S...

Patient engagement, acceptability, and preference of artificial intelligence versus human coaching for diabetes prevention

Artificial intelligence-powered lifestyle interventions may expand access to behavioral change support, but patient experience remains critical to real-world uptake and effectiveness. In a phase 3 randomized clinical trial of adults with prediabetes and overweight or obesity ( N...

Cost‐Effectiveness of Radiofrequency Ablation for Benign Non‐Functioning Thyroid Nodules: A Systematic Review

ABSTRACT Purpose This systematic review tests the hypothesis that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for benign non‐functioning thyroid nodules is associated with favourable cost‐effectiveness compared with surgery. Materials and Methods A systematic literature search of multiple data...

Racialized and Gendered Narratives for Middle-Aged African American Men as a Facilitator and Inhibitor for Self-Care Norms.

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Policy and Professional Organizations

Health policy can be perceived as abstract, complex, and distant from bedside care. For a lot of nurses, policy is something they are introduced to briefly during school, but it does not lead to ongoing involvement. Many nurses prefer the hands-on parts of nursing: caring for pat...

Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Is Associated With Functional Outcomes Following Surgery for Hip Fracture

BACKGROUND: Elevated red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is increasingly found to be associated with adverse health outcomes in older adults. We leveraged a randomized clinical trial that was investigating responses to supervised exercise (EX) with or without a topical testos...