AI Tools for Early Autism Detection Raise Ethical Concerns, Study Finds
A US qualitative study found caregivers, clinicians, and autistic adults expressed cautious optimism about AI-based autism prediction models while flagging ...
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Few Ethiopian Mothers Receive Quality Care Across Maternity Continuum
A population-based survey in Ethiopia found 39.1 percent of mothers received quality-adjusted antenatal care, but only 0.3 percent of mothers ...
African-led genomics takes centre stage in global precision oncology push
A conference synthesis report in BMC Proceedings outlines African priorities for precision oncology, from genomic infrastructure and cancer registries to ...
Stigmatizing language found in over half of primary care patient records
A retrospective analysis of primary care electronic health records found stigmatizing language in 45.3 percent of clinical notes, with higher ...
Somali women in Minnesota face layered barriers to cervical cancer screening
A community-engaged mixed methods study in southeast Minnesota finds that fear, mistrust and limited health literacy deter Somali women from ...
Cancer patients from diverse backgrounds face cultural barriers at end of life
A systematic review of 20 studies finds that family involvement, faith, and confusion about services shape whether culturally and linguistically ...
Online Consultation Research Has Shifted From Feasibility to System-Wide Implementation
A bibliometric analysis of 2,426 articles shows online consultation research accelerated after 2018 and shifted from feasibility studies to system-wide ...
Checkpoint Inhibitors Show Promise for People With HIV, but Africa Remains Excluded
A new review finds checkpoint inhibitors are safe and effective for virologically suppressed people with HIV, while sub-Saharan Africa remains ...
Digital Tools Show Promise for Stroke Caregivers, but Evidence Remains Fragmented
A scoping review of 20 studies finds that digital health interventions for stroke caregivers show potential benefits for burden, capability, ...
Drug Use and Social Vulnerability Combine to Raise Health Risks for Street Youth in Indonesia
A prospective cohort study of 364 street-involved youth in Makassar, Indonesia, found that baseline drug use and high social vulnerability ...
British Society of Echocardiography Sets Out How AI Should Enter the Heart Scan Workflow
A new British Society of Echocardiography position statement maps where artificial intelligence is ready for clinical use across the echocardiography ...
Stress and Self-Doubt May Quiet the Political Voice of the Disadvantaged, Model Argues
A new conceptual model proposes that stress and reduced self-efficacy mediate between socioeconomic disadvantage and political withdrawal, framing political participation ...
Mothers Experiencing Homelessness Describe Struggling to Protect and Reconnect with Their Children
A qualitative Swedish study of twelve mothers who experienced homelessness describes motherhood as a moral struggle shaped by fragmented welfare ...
Diabetes in Pregnancy: CGM Research Lacks Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Participants
A scoping review finds ethnicity was reported in only 15 of 28 antenatal CGM outcome studies and no trial described ...
Most patients with genetic conditions receive postpartum LARC counseling, but uptake lags
A retrospective cohort study found that 83.3% of patients with genetic diagnoses had documented LARC counseling after delivery, though only ...
India’s COVID-19 Lockdown Widened Nutrition Gaps Between Rich and Poor
A national cross-sectional analysis of NFHS-5 data found that undernutrition improved for most Indians after the 2020 lockdown but gains ...
ARISE trial to test diabetes distress screening and care workflows in community health centers
A pragmatic cluster randomized trial will randomize 12 Midwest community health centers to a structured diabetes distress screening and intervention ...
Public cancer investment linked to better survival at Uganda’s leading cancer centre
A five-year study of 12,438 patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute finds that residence outside Kampala, informal employment, and HIV ...
Digital health helps rural African clinics, but only where health systems are ready
A systematic review of 35 studies across 18 Sub-Saharan African countries finds that mobile health and DHIS2 dominate rural primary ...
Researchers Outline a Universal Standard to Tackle Stigma Across Healthcare
Researchers have published the program logic behind The Stigma-Free Standard, an online intervention designed to reduce healthcare stigma universally rather ...
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