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Trends and inequalities in early breastfeeding initiation in Ghana

Authors: Khadijat Adeleye, Augustus Osborne, Umaru Sesay and Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2025 20:76

Content type: Research Published on: 15 October 2025
Associations of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with terminal ductal lobular unit involution of the normal breast

Authors: Katherine W. Reeves, Youssef Oulhote, Philippe Grandjean and Flemming Nielsen

Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2025 27:148

Content type: Research Published on: 18 August 2025
Progress and inequalities in early initiation of breastfeeding among women in Sierra Leone, 2008–2019

Authors: Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah, Augustus Osborne, Khadijat Adeleye, Camilla Bangura, Comfort Z. Olorunsaiye and Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Citation: International Breastfeeding Journal 2025 20:60

Content type: Research Published on: 7 August 2025
The morphology, genetic structure, and haplotype distribution of the invasive freshwater snails Biomphalaria straminea and Physa acuta in Guangdong, China

Authors: Ping He, Yunyi Hu, Jehangir Khan, Yan Huang, Zhanhong Yuan, Benjamin Sanogo, Du Gao, Jun Liu, De Wu, Jingdiao Chen, Zhongdao Wu, Song Liang, Xi Sun and Datao Lin

Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2025 53:98

Content type: Research Published on: 28 July 2025
“The hardest part of what we’re doing”: research staff perspectives on engaging marginalized populations in substance use trials

Authors: Kaitlyn Jaffe and Celia B. Fisher

Citation: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2025 20:28

Content type: Research Published on: 7 July 2025
Contemporary challenges, needs and opportunities for emerging behavioral nutrition and physical activity researchers: a mixed-methods study

Authors: Brittany J. Johnson, Stephanie E. Chappel, Sarah Shaw, Emma R. Lawlor, Stephen Barrett, Kylie Wilson, Christine W. St Laurent, Hilary Caldwell, Brianne A. Bruijns, Sarah Burkart, Taylor J. Willmott, Daehyoung Lee and Simone J. J. M. Verswijveren

Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2025 22:94

Content type: Comment Published on: 6 July 2025
Prevalence and factors associated with unintended pregnancy among women in Ghana

Authors: Augustus Osborne, Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah, Khadijat Adeleye, Camilla Bangura, Richard Gyan Aboagye and Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2025 25:728

Content type: Research Published on: 4 July 2025
Determining mosquito age using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and artificial neural networks: insights into the influence of origin and sex

Authors: Zili Gao, Yuzhen Zhang, Laura C. Harrington, Courtney C. Murdock, Elisabeth Martin, Dalton Manbeck-Mosig, Steve Vetrone, Nicolas Tremblay, Christopher M. Barker, John M. Clark, Lili He and Wei Zhu

Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2025 18:218

Content type: Research Published on: 10 June 2025
Early-life and concurrent predictors of the healthy adolescent microbiome in a cohort study

Authors: Hannah E. Laue, Amy D. Willis, Fang Wang, Melinda C. MacDougall, Yingying Xu, Margaret R. Karagas, Juliette C. Madan, Abby F. Fleisch, Bruce P. Lanphear, Kim M. Cecil, Kimberly Yolton, Aimin Chen, Jessie P. Buckley and Joseph M. Braun

Citation: Genome Medicine 2025 17:50

Content type: Research Published on: 8 May 2025
Dismantling inequities to end the black maternal mortality crisis in the United States

Authors: Ameneh Safarzadeh

Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2025 24:114

Content type: Comment Published on: 28 April 2025
Patient perspectives of jail based MOUD treatment: views of individuals who have returned to the community following incarceration

Authors: Claudia Santelices, Warren Ferguson, Rebecca Rottapel, Ekaterina Pivovarova, Elizabeth Evans, Thomas Stopka and Peter Friedmann

Citation: Health & Justice 2025 13:25

Content type: Research Published on: 22 April 2025
What smartphone apps exist to support recovery from opioid use disorder? A content analysis of publicly available opioid-related smartphone apps

Authors: Alivia Williamson, Behnam Heydarshahi, Diadora Finley-Abboud, Lili Massac, Lindsay Jacobson, Naicha Christophe, Judeline Joseph, Allison Futter, Susanne S. Hoeppner and Bettina B. Hoeppner

Citation: Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2025 20:26

Content type: Research Published on: 13 March 2025
Comparative study of stigma and discrimination among vaccinated and non-vaccinated COVID-19 survivors in Bangladesh

Authors: Tamanna Rashid, Shamsul Arefin, Mowsume Bhattacharjee and Ashraful Islam

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2025 25:338

Content type: Research Published on: 10 March 2025
Cervical cancer screening uptake and its predictors among women aged 30–49 in Ghana: Providing evidence to support the World Health Organization’s cervical cancer elimination initiative

Authors: Leticia Akua Adzigbli, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Khadijat Adeleye, Augustus Osborne and Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2025 25:246

Content type: Research Published on: 21 February 2025
Cost analysis of MOUD implementation and sustainability in Massachusetts jails

Authors: Danielle Ryan, Don Lochana Ekanayake, Elizabeth Evans, Edmond Hayes, Thomas Senst, Peter D. Friedmann, Kathryn E. McCollister and Sean M. Murphy

Citation: Health & Justice 2025 13:9

Content type: Research Published on: 5 February 2025
Marigold: a machine learning-based web app for zebrafish pose tracking

Authors: Gregory Teicher, R. Madison Riffe, Wayne Barnaby, Gabrielle Martin, Benjamin E. Clayton, Josef G. Trapani and Gerald B. Downes

Citation: BMC Bioinformatics 2025 26:30

Content type: Research Published on: 28 January 2025
Prospective associations of infant food exposures and appetitive traits with early childhood diet quality

Authors: Tonja R. Nansel, Amara Channell-Doig, Leah M. Lipsky, Kyle Burger, Grace Shearrer, Anna Maria Siega-Riz and Yong Ma

Citation: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2024 21:143

Content type: Research Published on: 18 December 2024
Early sexual debut among adolescent girls and young women in Sierra Leone: A multilevel analysis of prevalence and predictors

Authors: Augustus Osborne, Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah, Khadijat Adeleye, Camilla Bangura, Richard Gyan Aboagye and Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Citation: Contraception and Reproductive Medicine 2024 9:56

Content type: Research Published on: 12 November 2024
Trends and inequalities in anaemia prevalence among children aged 6–59 months in Ghana, 2003–2022

Authors: Augustus Osborne, Khadijat Adeleye, Camilla Bangura and Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah

Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:231

Content type: Research Published on: 8 November 2024
Migratory strategies across an ecological barrier: is the answer blowing in the wind?

Authors: Rosalyn E. Bathrick, James A. Johnson, Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Rebekah Snyder, Maria Stager and Nathan R. Senner

Citation: Movement Ecology 2024 12:70

Content type: Research Published on: 14 October 2024