Rapid antigen testing by community health workers for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study by Mahbubur Rahman, Ayesha Sania, Seonjoo Lee, Tahmina Shirin, A S M Alamgir, Yael K Rayport, Ahmed Nawsher Alam, Joanna Andrecka, Eric Brum, Fergus Chadwick, Tasnuva Chowdhury, Zakiul Hasan, Davina L Hill, Farzana Khan, Mikolaj Kundegorski, Motahara Tasneem, Katie Hampson

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A Case Study of Anomalous Snowfall with an Alberta Clipper by Scott M. Rochette, Patrick S. Market, Chad M. Gravelle, Thomas A. Niziol

“…An Alberta clipper moved over western New York state on 11-12 January 2004, producing snowfall amounts of up to 27 cm in portions of the region during a roughly 12-h period. …”
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Associations of prenatal urinary melamine, melamine analogues, and aromatic amines with gestational duration and fetal growth in the ECHO Cohort by Giehae Choi, Xiaoshuang Xun, Deborah H. Bennett, John D. Meeker, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Sheela Sathyanarayana, Susan L Schantz, Leonardo Trasande, Deborah Watkins, Edo D. Pellizzari, Wenlong Li, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Tracey J. Woodruff, Jessie P. Buckley

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Corrigendum to “Longitudinal Screening Detects Cognitive Stability and Behavioral Deterioration in ALS Patients” by Susan Woolley, Ray Goetz, Pam Factor-Litvak, Jennifer Murphy, Jonathan Hupf, Diana C. Garofalo, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Howard Andrews, Daragh Heitzman, Richard Bedlack, Jonathan Katz, Richard Barohn, Eric Sorenson, Bjorn Oskarsson, Americo Fernandes Filho, Edward Kasarskis, Tahseen Mozaffar, Sharon Nations, Andrea Swenson, Agnes Koczon-Jaremko, Georgia Christodoulou, Hiroshi Mitsumoto

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Trauma and Growth: Impact of AIDS Activism by Judith G. Rabkin, Martin C. McElhiney, Mark Harrington, Tim Horn

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Microscale Investigation of Arsenic Distribution and Species in Cement Product from Cement Kiln Coprocessing Wastes by Yufei Yang, Jingchuan Xue, Qifei Huang

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Timing Matters: HIV Testing Rates in the Emergency Department by Rebecca Schnall, Nan Liu

“…In response to the 2010 New York State HIV testing law, we sought to understand the contextual factors that influence HIV testing rates in the emergency department (ED). …”
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Celecoxib Adjunctive Treatment to Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia: A Review of Randomized Clinical Add-On Trials by Stefano Marini, Domenico De Berardis, Federica Vellante, Rita Santacroce, Laura Orsolini, Alessandro Valchera, Gabriella Girinelli, Alessandro Carano, Michele Fornaro, Francesco Gambi, Giovanni Martinotti, Massimo Di Giannantonio

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Powassan Encephalitis: A Case Report from New York, USA by Danielle A. Bazer, Matthew Orwitz, Nicholas Koroneos, Olga Syritsyna, Elizabeth Wirkowski

“…A Mayo Clinic Encephalopathy Panel was unremarkable; however, a New York State Arbovirus panel revealed Powassan IgM ELISA as well as Powassan Polyvalent microsphere immunofluorescence assay reactivity. …”
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An MR Brain Images Classifier System via Particle Swarm Optimization and Kernel Support Vector Machine by Yudong Zhang, Shuihua Wang, Genlin Ji, Zhengchao Dong

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HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for women: Claiming risk and recognizing responsibility to end the AIDS epidemic in New York by Lauren SUCHMAN

“…Methods: This analysis is based on 14 months (October 2014 – December 2015) of ethnographic research conducted in the context of New York State’s ‘Ending the Epidemic’ (ETE) campaign. …”
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Age of First Suicide Attempt in Men and Women: An Admixture Analysis by Hilario Blasco-Fontecilla, Analucia A. Alegria, David Delgado-Gomez, Teresa Legido-Gil, Jeronimo Saiz-Ruiz, Maria A. Oquendo, Enrique Baca-Garcia

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Characteristics and Demographics of Patients Requiring Emergent Air Medical by Anna Van Tuyl, Mark Quilon, Trevor Dudley, Olivia Grant, Neha Rao, Paul Barbara, David S. Kugler, Kaitlin C. McLoone-Cepin, Josh Greenstein, Barry Hahn

“…This was a retrospective, multicenter study conducted at eight hospitals within Northwell Health, the largest academic health system in New York state. The study was conducted between December 1, 2014, and July 31, 2020, and included patients who presented to an ED and subsequently required emergent air medical interfacility transport. …”
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Field apple scab susceptibility of a diverse Malus germplasm collection identifies potential sources of resistance for apple breeding by David Papp, Liqiang Gao, Ranjita Thapa, Dan Olmstead, Awais Khan

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Does structural compromise of the aorta in patients with aortic pathologies predict increased spinal and vascular complications and reoperations in patients undergoing anterior app... by Neil V. Shah, Pelin Çeliker, Cirous Sadeghi, Rachel Baum, Juhayer S. Alam, Chibuokem Ikwuazom, Peter L. Zhou, Benjamin Krasnyanskiy, David Kim, Rohan Desai, Sandeep Bains, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Bassel G. Diebo, Carl B. Paulino

“…Materials and Methods: Using the New York State Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System, thoracolumbar ASF patients with a history of aneurysm, dissection, atherosclerosis, aortitis, or aortic tumors (APath) were identified and matched to patients with no aortic pathologies (No-APath). …”
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Web-Based Healthcare Delivery Integrated System to Forecast COVID-19 Hospitalizations in a Marginalized Patient Population: A Case Study in Broome County, New York by Anemone Kasasbeh, Elie Issa, Naseem Khan, Mehmet Yildirim, Amy Booth, Hiroki Sayama

“…Data are retrieved from the New York State state-wide COVID-19 hospitalizations website. …”
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Modeling Tick Populations: An Ecological Test Case for Gradient Boosted Trees by Manley, William, Tran, Tam, Prusinski, Melissa, Brisson, Dustin

“…Here we compare the abilities of gradient boosted and linear models to identify environmental features that explain observed variations in the distribution and abundance of blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) populations in a data set collected across New York State over a ten-year period. The gradient boosted and linear models use similar environmental features to explain tick demography, although the gradient boosted models found non-linear relationships and interactions that are difficult to anticipate and often impractical to identify with a linear modeling framework. …”
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Mixed-methods study to examine the response of opioid addiction treatment programmes to COVID-19: a study protocol by Sugy Choi, Rhea Naik, Kamila Kiszko, Charles Neighbors, Thomas D’Aunno

“…This paper describes the protocol for a mixed-methods study analysing organisational-level factors that are associated with changes in clinic-level practice changes and treatment retention.Methods and analysis We will employ an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design to study the treatment practices for opioid use disorder (OUD) patients in New York State (NYS). For the quantitative aim, we will use the Client Data System and Medicaid claims data to examine the variation in clinical practices (ie, changes in telehealth, pharmacotherapy, group vs individual counselling and urine drug screening) and retention in treatment for OUD patients across 580 outpatient clinics in NYS during the pandemic. …”
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The use and operationalization of “structural stigma” in health-related research: A scoping review by Evan L. Eschliman, Edwina P. Kisanga, Long Jie Huang, Ohemaa B. Poku, Becky L. Genberg, Danielle German, Sarah M. Murray, Lawrence H. Yang, Michelle R. Kaufman

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From ecological menace to roadside attraction: 28 years of evidence support successful biocontrol of purple loosestrife by Bernd Blossey, Victoria Nuzzo, Stacy B. Endriss

“…Here, we use implementation of a biocontrol program targeting a widespread wetland invader, Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife), in North America to track outcomes on the target plant over more than two decades in New York State. After extensive testing, two leaf‐feeding beetles (Galerucella calmariensis and Galerucella pusilla; hereafter “Galerucella”), a root‐feeding weevil (Hylobius transversovittatus) and a flower‐feeding weevil (Nanophyes marmoratus), were approved for field releases. …”
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