Articles: health.
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Updating the Quality Family Planning recommendations is an essential step toward offering all people evidenced-informed, person-centered, equitable, and inclusive sexual and reproductive health care. What constitutes quality sexual and reproductive health care constantly evolves as scientific research generates new evidence. ⋯ Today's sexual and reproductive health context is also complex and evolving against the backdrop of an increasing awareness of the impact of structural and interpersonal racism, classism, discrimination (or bias) based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and ableism on health and sexual and reproductive health care. The Office of Population Affairs of the HHS sought to be responsive to these complex conditions by centering equity in the update of its Quality Family Planning recommendations from start to finish, including in its approach to reviews of published literature, the creation of expert and technical workgroups to assess the literature and make recommendations, and actively engaging persons with lived experience to gather their insights so that the final product could genuinely respond to the needs of the community.
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National-level data suggest that gun owners in the U.S. carry concealed weapons in public at growing rates. This research investigates whether these trends are associated with state adoption of more permissive concealed carry-licensing laws between 2002 and 2019. ⋯ State-level concealed carry licensing may inform public health and safety policies as large restrictive U.S. states transition to more permissive concealed carry-licensing laws.
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Anker SD, Friede T, von Bardeleben RS, et al; RESHAPE-HF2 Investigators. Transcatheter valve repair in heart failure with moderate to severe mitral regurgitation. N Engl J Med. 2024;391:1799-1809. 39216092.