BACKGROUND: Combination intrapleural fibrinolytic and enzyme therapy (IET) has been established as a therapeutic option in pleural infection. Despite demonstrated efficacy, studies specifically designed and adequately ...

The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...

When should a patient receive a transfuse of blood? What is an acceptable hemoglobin concentration in an ICU patient and should we use EPO? Summer is a time when the blood banks often have a single day's worth of blood. ...

Hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factors for stroke, cardiovascular disease, and renal failure, and it affects more than 30% of all adult Americans. The prevalence of hypertension is increasing, ...

Blood vessel epicardial substance (BVES or POPDC1) is a tight junction-associated adhesion molecule that regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition and is downregulated in colorectal cancer via promoter hypermethylation, ...

My thesis explores landscape and memory as thin places—the meeting places between opposites, particularly between humanity and divinity. My initial poem, “Memory Palace,” both praises the brain’s power and acknowledges ...

Exposure to social stress is a well-established risk factor for the development and recurrence of depression. Reduced neural responsiveness to monetary reward has been associated with greater symptoms following stress ...

Improved therapies for high grade gliomas (HGG) are urgently needed, as the median survival for grade IV gliomas is just 15 months after treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Recently, bone morphogenetic ...

The trachea and esophagus are respectively respiratory and digestive organs that originate from a common foregut endoderm during development. Perturbed patterning in this endodermal tissue can result in a variety of foregut ...