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Will Psychedelics Break the Major Depression Logjam?
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- Liz Scherer
A European research network is focused on the use of psychedelic compounds as potential treatments for...
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CBTI Strategy Reduces Sleeping Pill Use in Canadian Seniors
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“Providers said that deprescribing is difficult, time-consuming, and often not a productive use of their time.”
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Could British Columbia Eliminate Cervical Cancer by 2031?
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
Investigators conduct a modeling study to determine when and how BC might achieve the elimination of cervical cancer.
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Will Your Next Prescription Be 20 Minutes of Nature a Day?
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
Time outdoors has a positive impact on mental health, perception, and well-being and may be gaining ground as a treatment.
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Taking a new obesity drug and birth control pills? Be careful
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“It [the warning] was in the product insert, but clinically speaking, I don’t know if it was at the top of providers’ minds when they were...
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New guidelines for cannabis in chronic pain management released
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
New clinical practice guidelines for cannabis in chronic pain management may help clinicians offer an effective and less addictive alternative to...
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HIV testing still suboptimal
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“If we just look at the need for HIV testing based on who is at risk, I think that we are always going to fall short.”
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Measles exposures in Kentucky have CDC on alert
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“It’s really about considering measles in any un- or undervaccinated patient that arrives at a clinic and recently traveled internationally.”
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Parents driving the ‘talk’ supports healthy sexual behaviors in GBQ teens and young adults
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“Providers can encourage parents to ask if a child is dating or is familiar with ways to protect themselves or provide consent, and act as a...
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HIV: Greater parental involvement needed with young men who have sex with men
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“The goal was to get parents to deliver more messages and engage in more behaviors with their sons that we think are likely to help their sons...
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Droplet dispersal in sterile processing units far exceeds guideline limit
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“The guidelines say that droplets stop at 3 or 4 feet, and they don’t.”
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Integrase inhibitors and gestational weight gain: Should women worry?
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
“This weight gain is primarily happening with women who are starting integrase strand transferase inhibitors.”
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Texas district court allows employers to deny HIV PrEP coverage
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
"Judge O'Connor has a long history of issuing rulings against the Affordable Care Act and LGBT individuals, and we expect the case to be...
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Are we up the creek without a paddle? What COVID, monkeypox, and nature are trying to tell us
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
We may be facing unique challenges and smaller windows to intervene as we move forward.
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Disturbed sleep drives poor PrEP adherence in young Black sexual-minority men
- Author:
- Liz Scherer
Sleep disturbance, poor cognitive processing, and memory function deficits go hand in hand, especially among...