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WASHINGTON - Recent data reveals that gay men living with HIV report having supportive relationships with family, friends, or in informal relationships rather than with primary romantic partners, while gay men who are HIV negative report having relationships mainly with primary partners. Additionally, gay men living with HIV were more likely to report no primary or secondary supportive partnerships compared to men who are HIV negative. The analysis was led by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Along with successful HIV treatments, it is known that the presence of social support impacts long-term survival among men living with HIV. However, little has been known about the types of supportive relationship among gay men in general, and none for those men living with HIV. Identifying the types of relationships could inform how they impact healthy aging among this community of men.
(MENAFN - The Conversation) Dr. Nickel is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, Research Scientist and Associate Director at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Scientist at the Children s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, and Co-Director of the Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre (MILC). Nickel received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Community Health Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles and his PhD in Maternal and Child Health Policy from the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Nickel is an applied population health scientist. He uses administrative data to conduct health and social policy research. Nickel s research program centres on examining how social and structural determinants impact population health and well-being and health and social inequities. Within this framework he has conducted evaluation research looking at prog
While rare in industrialized countries, maternal mortality rates since 1990 have increased in both the U.S. (from 10.0 to 17.3 deaths per 100,000 births) and Canada (7.6 to 11.0 deaths per 100,000 births). The same holds true for severe morbidity, which the authors defined either by disease-specific criteria, such as eclampsia; interventions, such as blood transfusion; or organ system dysfunction, such as heart failure.
“Studies showing that chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, are among the leading causes of such morbidity and mortality have led to significant preventive efforts for women with these conditions, including better preconception and perinatal care,” Brown and colleagues observed. “However, the association of maternal disability with these outcomes is relatively unknown.”
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University of Pittsburgh researchers are investigating online misinformation relating to the covid-19 vaccines, thanks to a grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The goal is to create “beneficial and educational messaging about vaccines,” the university said.
“We wanted to see what are some of the reasons why we’re seeing some of the trends we’re seeing,” said Beth Hoffman, a Ph.D. student in Pitt’s Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, and one of the lead researchers. “And also, what are some of the ways we can make sure people are getting the correct information?”
Even as DCH Health System expands COVID-19 vaccinations into the 1A plus crowd adding police, firefighters, and those over 75 to the 1A designation of healthcare workers and those in communal living it could potentially double the 800 shots it s delivering per week, if more of the Pfizer vaccine doses were available. We have the capacity at DCH to offer many more appointment times than we are currently, said Andy North, DCH vice president of marketing and communications. The appointment book is filled every week through February, and into the first days of March. What we know at this point is as we use up the vaccine, and report back our usage rate, that makes us eligible to get more vaccine, if there is any, North said.