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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2025, 104493

The article dicusses the need for early, culturally grounded interventions to support healthy beverage habits among Navajo and other Indigenous children. While early childhood education programs are generally promoting healthy choices, most children remain at risk due to inadequate hydration and high sugar-sweetened beverage intake, compounded by ongoing challenges in water accessibility and safety. Strengthening access to safe drinking water and leveraging Indigenous cultural traditions can serve as protective factors, supporting better health outcomes and reducing disparities in diet-related diseases for American Indian children. Future efforts should focus on community engagement and culturally responsive strategies to sustain healthy habits.

The authors suggest that being denied a desired contraceptive method (downward coercion) may have a more profound negative impact on patients' self-efficacy, self-esteem, and reproductive autonomy. Patient autonomy needs to be safeguarded
Academic Medical Centers play a key role in providing comprehensive abortion services, from primary care to complex specialty care, and in training future clinicians in abortion provision. The weekly number of abortions at University of Washington remained stable after Dobbs.
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European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Volume 306, March 2025

Artificial intelligence can be useful in gynecologic and obstetric emergencies.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Available online 19 February 2025, 104570

This article concludes that mainstream health interventions must move beyond Western-centric models to embrace Indigenous worldviews, traditions, and leadership. The success of the RWWAK program demonstrates that community-driven, culturally grounded approaches foster deeper engagement, meaningful health improvements, and healing from historical trauma. Adopting the Two-Eyed Seeing approach, which honors both Indigenous and Western knowledge systems, is essential for creating effective, sustainable health promotion strategies in Indigenous communities. Further efforts should focus on scaling and adapting such models, prioritizing Indigenous voices to ensure programs are authentic, holistic, and supportive of community well-being.

This analysis showed differences in serum EDC concentrations by R/E, sex, and age group in a military sample.

This review highlights the widespread prevalence of exposure to certain phthalates used in industrial practices, sheds light on exposure trends over time, and identifies significant gaps in biomonitoring data across various regions, particularly in areas with limited research infrastructure.

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Gioia Falcone, Christopher S. Brown, Isa Kolo, David Banks, Orestis Angelidis, Chapter 7 - Geothermal production, injection, and storage engineering, Editor(s): Silviu Livescu, Birol Dindoruk, Geothermal Energy Engineering, Elsevier, 2025, Pages 181-220.

The chapter aligns with UN SDGs 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 13 (Climate Action) by advocating for the use of geothermal technologies to provide clean, sustainable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to the transition to a more sustainable energy future.

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Philip J. Ball, Graham Banks, Mikenna Montgomery, Juan Carlos Afonso, Chapter 12 - Global screening for superhot rock geothermal energy: Geodynamic settings, prospective heat endowment and extraction techniques, Editors: Silviu Livescu, Birol Dindoruk, Geothermal Energy Engineering, Elsevier, 2025, Pages 379-462.

This chapter supports UN SDGs 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and 13 (Climate Action) by advancing the understanding and utilization of geothermal resources to promote sustainable and clean energy solutions, contributing to climate change mitigation efforts.

This study evaluates the barriers to care for minority women with pelvice floor disorders

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