Findings support the World Health Organization’s recommendation of using a two-dose or one-dose HPV vaccine regimen in girls and young women. As many countries are switching to one-dose regimen to scale up the coverage of HPV vaccination, these findings based on nationwide Swedish registries and real-life programs provided high-quality evidence to support such policy changes and decision-making for HPV vaccination programs globally.
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The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 12, February 2025

Letter examines the right for women to make decisions that might be unpopular without having their mental health questioned.
This study implies that greater women empowerment may not always act as a stronger determinant of contraceptive use. Other contributing factors such as age, education and religion should be considered.
Women offered vaccination at age 12–13 years have around 80% lower rates of Cervical cancer than they would have had in the absence of a national vaccination programme.
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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 2025, Volume 121, Issue 2

The BRIDGES consortium, the first initiative of its kind funded by NIDDK, is designed to increase diversity and support early-career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds in securing research funding in nutrition, obesity, diabetes, and related fields. By providing tailored mentoring, career development, grant-writing support, and pilot funding across four leading programs nationwide, BRIDGES empowers the next generation of scientific leaders to drive innovation and address critical health disparities.

This study analyzes how healthcare, health, and social factors contribute to high out-of-pocket health expenditures (OOPE) among informally employed Cambodian households without prepayment schemes, finding that healthcare-related factors are the largest drivers of financial hardship. The authors recommend expanding prepayment schemes focused on comprehensive outpatient care, essential medications, and higher-level services, while also addressing noncommunicable diseases and injuries to improve financial protection.

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The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare, 2025, pp 167-177

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how digital health can improve personalized oncological care for different populations.
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The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare, 2025, pp 341-355

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how digital health can improve personalized kidney disease care for different populations.
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by discussing the understudied impacts of the gut microbiome and chronic inflammation that may contribute to neurodegeneration.
Zebra of the Month: Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency

Rare Disease Education: Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency

Editor: Kelsey LaFayette, DNP, RN, FNP-C

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