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Melissa
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Editor, gardener, marine invertebrate and fungi enthusiast.
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New Original Research article in RRH: Content and readability of websites focused on agricultural safety by Andrew Doueihi, Youssef Guirguis, Kerri-Lynn Peachey, Tony Lower and Carlos Mesa Castrillon.

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Content and readability of websites focused on agricultural safety
Published article 9579 Rural and Remote Health
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November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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New Original Research article in RRH: Working across contexts: critical events in rural teletherapy in Alaska by Peter Noon, Camille Booth, Edmond Arroyo, Kevin Tarlow and Steffi Kim.

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Working across contexts: critical events in rural teletherapy in Alaska
Published article 10336 Rural and Remote Health
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December 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Letter to the Editor in RRH: Strengthening community health workers in the Philippines through lessons from rural health access studies in Guyana and Peru by Tiffany Ruth Quinitip.

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December 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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New Clinical Case Report in RRH: Pragmatic and alternative use of a pigtail pleural drainage catheter as a suprapubic urinary catheter in the retrieval setting by John Floridis and Matthew Hooper.

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December 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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RRH is thrilled to be publishing abstracts from the 21st WONCA World Rural Health Conference (Aotearoa New Zealand in April 2026).
Conference theme: Whānau Ora: Integrating Mātauranga Māori, indigenous knowledge with rural health for a thriving future.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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New and free to read in #ChildrenAustralia: Exploring principles of trauma-informed care to strengthen service delivery for parents of children with complex support needs
https://doi.org/10.61605/cha_3060
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December 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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New and free to read in #ChildrenAustralia: A literature review of therapeutic intervention with young survivors of violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect
https://doi.org/10.61605/cha_3061
#TherapeuticIntervention #ChildAndFamilyServices
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Measuring the specific care management experience of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Amazon region of Brazil by Johrdy Braga, Lucas Santos Fernandes, Maria Cardoso, Elizabete de Oliveira, James Oliveira dos Santos Júnior, Hércules Campos and Elisa De Leon

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November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Free to read: Exploration phase: Improving transition planning in residential out-of-home care
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#ResidentialCare #OOHC #ChildrenAustralia
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November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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New and free to read in #ChildrenAustralia: Exploring principles of trauma-informed care to strengthen service delivery for parents of children with complex support needs
https://doi.org/10.61605/cha_3060
#ParentTrauma #TraumaInformed @unimelb.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Free to read: Exploration phase: Improving transition planning in residential out-of-home care
https://doi.org/10.61605/cha_3054
#ResidentialCare #OOHC #ChildrenAustralia
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October 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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New and free to read in #ChildrenAustralia: The importance of listening to children’s voices in family law: A framework for practice
https://doi.org/10.61605/cha_3068

#FamilyLaw #ChildrensRights #ChildVoice #TraumaInformed @griffith.edu.au
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Evaluating community-based suicide prevention initiatives in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review by Andreia Schineanu, Jodie Brabin, Suzanne McLaren, Clifford Lewis, Larissa Bamberry, Taneile Kitchingman, Jayne Lawrence, Rosemary Philips and Samantha Jakimowicz.
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Evaluating community-based suicide prevention initiatives in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review
Published article 9767 Rural and Remote Health
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November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Implementation and initial outcomes of a breast cancer screening program in remote areas: in the western Amazon, Brazil by Ana Maria Negreiros, Thiago Silva, Anderson Teixeira, Igor Fecury, Edmundo C Mauad, Raphael Luiz Haikel Jr, André Carvalho and Lívia Loamí de Paula.
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Implementation and initial outcomes of a breast cancer screening program in remote areas: a case study in the western Amazon, Brazil
Published article 9357 Rural and Remote Health
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November 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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New Original Research article in RRH: COVID-19 vaccination advocacy among Tanzanian rural communities: lessons for future pandemics by Godwin Pancras, Baraka Morris, Shitindo Mercury, Renatha Josepth, Emmy Metta, Nathanael Sirili and David Nderitu.

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COVID-19 vaccination advocacy among Tanzanian rural communities: lessons for future pandemics
Published article 9868 Rural and Remote Health
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November 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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"Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people."

Van Gogh's moving letters to his brother www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/07/v...
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · Nov 8
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪
Deep-sea mining starves life in the ocean’s twilight zone
Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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25 years and 10,000 submissions for Rural and Remote Health! Thank you to our authors, readers, reviewers, editors and supporters! A message from Professor Sarah Larkins:
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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New Original Research article in RRH: Sociodemographic disadvantage and low healthcare access as contributing factors to high maternal death in Papua, Indonesia: multilevel analysis of census population data by Danik Iga Prasiska, Suk-Yong Jang and Min Jin Ha.

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Sociodemographic disadvantage and low healthcare access as contributing factors to high maternal death in Papua, Indonesia: multilevel analysis of census population data
Published article 9349 Rural and Remote Health
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November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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New Original Research article in RRH: Evaluation of ICT-based EMS implementation in medically underserved areas: usability, feasibility and impact by Eui-Jae Kim, So-Yeon Kong, Yun-Jeong Cha, Gwan-Jin Park, Young-Min Kim, Hyun-Seok Chai, Hoon Kim and Sang-Chul Kim

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Evaluation of ICT-based EMS implementation in medically underserved areas: usability, feasibility and impact
Published article 9975 Rural and Remote Health
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October 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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New Review Article in RRH: Recruitment and retention of the allied health workforce in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review by Emma Brown, Beth Ould, Harry Brown, Luke Robinson and Ted Brown.

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Recruitment and retention of the allied health workforce in rural and remote Australia: a scoping review
Published article 9532 Rural and Remote Health
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October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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New Short Communication in RRH: Self-reported measures of preparedness of graduates of a new remote and rural graduate-entry medical program (ScotGEM) by Andrew O'Malley.

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Self-reported measures of preparedness of graduates of a new remote and rural graduate-entry medical program (ScotGEM)
Published article 9781 Rural and Remote Health
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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Evaluating the service readiness of a Paraguay public healthcare center for the primary healthcare system using the WHO SARA tool by Ji Eon Kim, Yanghee Kang, Min Ah Chung, Daehwan Kim, Baek Jo, Renato Ronnebeck, Adriana Amarilla Vallejo and Eun Woo Nam

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Evaluating the service readiness of a Paraguay public healthcare center for the primary healthcare system using the WHO SARA tool
Published article 8701 Rural and Remote Health
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October 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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New Original Research article in RRH: Awareness of access to health care: a significant need of the Narikuravar people, India by Hepsibah Sharmil, Cherrie Galletly, Janet Kelly, Ted Wilkes, Anna George, Mariyamol Jaison, K Karthiga, K Myvizhi and Annamalai K.

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Awareness of access to health care: a significant need of the Narikuravar people, India
Published article 9870 Rural and Remote Health
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October 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM