Helpful or harmful? How cancer beliefs and information seeking relate to depression in US adults
Fatalistic cancer beliefs were associated with higher odds of screening positive for depression among U.S. adults, while information seeking and health discussions showed no significant independent association.
PLOS One
Implant vs. injectable contraceptive effectiveness during efavirenz use varies by breastfeeding
The findings suggest that breastfeeding, particularly during the first six months after childbirth, may influence pregnancy risk and should be considered when comparing contraceptive effectiveness.
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
Permethrin-treated baby wraps for the prevention of malaria
Permethrin-treated baby wraps reduced malaria incidence by two-thirds compared with sham wraps, offering a culturally grounded, effective complement to bed nets for childhood malaria prevention.
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
Adaptive human behavior and delays in information availability autonomously modulate epidemic waves
Delayed risk responses alone generated recurrent waves, with their size and frequency shaped by both disease and behavioral factors, underscoring the need to integrate human behavior into epidemic modeling.
PNAS Nexus
Stability analyses on the effect of vaccination and contact tracing in monkeypox virus transmission
In a mathematical model of mpox, higher vaccination coverage and contact tracing stabilized the disease-free equilibrium and reduced outbreak risk, showing their critical role in controlling transmission.
J. Math. Comput. Sci.
Assessing the risk of dengue outbreaks across continental biomes in Brazil
This study explored dengue outbreak risks across different Brazilian biomes, integrating environmental and epidemiological data to highlight areas of heightened vulnerability.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting