Posted on January 26th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Importance Anxiety is commonly seen in primary care and associated with substantial burden. Objective To review the benefits and harms of screening and treatment for anxiety and the accuracy of instruments to detect anxiety among primary care patients. Data Sources MEDLINE, PsychINFO, Cochrane…
Posted on January 26th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Importance Anxiety disorders are commonly occurring mental health conditions. They are often unrecognized in primary care settings and substantial delays in treatment initiation occur. Objective The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) commissioned a systematic review to evaluate the benefits and harms…
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) is a powerful new addition to the treatments available for patients living with HIV, but broad acceptance and uptake could be compromised by what we know about patients’ and clinicians’ experiences with long-acting injectable antipsychotics…
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This commentary examines the appropriateness of a clinician’s deceiving a patient who will not discuss lifesaving therapy through the lens of solidarity, a key professional ethical value. Clinicians’ awareness of social determinants of many patients’ increased vulnerability to HIV infection…
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
HIV/AIDS exceptionalism promoted compassion, garnered funding, built institutions, and shaped regulatory and research agendas under emergency conditions. Globally, however, HIV/AIDS exceptionalism has further fragmented fragile health service delivery systems in vulnerable, marginalized communities and created perverse incentives to influence seropositive…
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This article considers merits and drawbacks of “undetectable = untransmissible” (U = U) messaging in the global HIV response. First, viral suppression might be achieved with effective treatment, but not everyone living with HIV has access to such intervention and…
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
The Aesthetics of Health (AOH) undergraduate visual art studies course at the University of Texas at Austin aimed to enhance art students’ awareness of cancer’s impact not only medically but also socially, emotionally, financially, and spiritually and to examine how…
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Arts-based activities’ roles in medical education is to challenge students to cultivate clinical skills using ART (aesthetics, reflection, time). ART activities offer opportunities for students to cultivate creative dimensions of their clinical skills and to reflect on their responses to…
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Inspired by research indicating that exposure to humanities correlates with reduced burnout, the Nebraska Medical Orchestra was founded in 2018 as a collaboration between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Music….
Posted on January 10th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Omaha, Nebraska, has a lead-contaminated superfund site and substandard housing that pose risks for childhood lead exposure. Healthy Housing Omaha (formerly, Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance), an environmental health nonprofit, partnered with the fourth author, an artist, and a newspaper to…