Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Long Davalos, Jacqueline Janecek, Yelena Fudym, Paul McKeever, Brian C. Callaghan
Summary: A 59-year-old man presented with progressive weakness, with a family history of muscle weakness but no similar symptoms in his parents, sister, and sons.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Hao-Yu Wu, Tian-Jiao Gao, Yi-Wei Cao, Lei Liang
Summary: Patients with pheochromocytoma may present with hypotension or even shock, and clinicians should suspect the presence of pheochromocytoma when a patient with a history of hypertension experiences sudden hypotension or shock.
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Daniel A. Rauch, Teresa Victoria, Heidi H. Pfeifer
Summary: This article describes a case of an 18-year-old man with Dravet syndrome presenting with fever and increased seizure activity. The patient also had a history of foot swelling for 2 months, and imaging revealed bone marrow edema and fractures.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Aoife Hehir, Ruth Gilmore, Sarah Power, Thomas Monaghan, Emer R. McGrath
Summary: CVST is a rare condition with inherited and acquired risk factors. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to prevent complications such as seizures and visual disturbance. This case highlights the potential severity of untreated CVST and the importance of a thorough history and examination in recognizing the condition.
Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Ann-Katrin Johansson, Ridwaan Omar, Berit Mastrovito, Josefin Sannevik, Gunnar E. Carlsson, Anders Johansson
Summary: The study reveals the high prevalence of xerostomia among older individuals, especially at night and in women. Various factors reported earlier in life can predict the development of xerostomia. Clinicians need to be aware of this condition in the elderly and recommend appropriate measures to alleviate symptoms and minimize negative impact on oral health.
JOURNAL OF DENTISTRY
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Leigh H. Simmons, Mladen Nisavic, Amy K. Dickey
Summary: A 25-year-old woman with a history of acute intermittent porphyria presented with abdominal pain and jerking movements of the arm and leg. Hemin treatment was ineffective. Ultimately, a diagnosis was made.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Critical Care Medicine
Omar Mahmoud, Hee Bae, Alyssar Habib, Mariyam Saviour, Sarah Williams
Summary: A 59-year-old woman presented with progressive exercise intolerance, dyspnea, fever, cough, and other symptoms. She had a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and had been recently stable. She had been misdiagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia during two previous hospital admissions for similar symptoms.
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Microbiology
Maria Scheel, Athanasios Zervas, Carsten S. Jacobsen, Torben R. Christensen
Summary: Northern permafrost soils store a significant amount of global soil carbon. The increase in permafrost temperatures has led to thermal erosion events, impacting vegetation and microbial communities. This study provides insights into the microbial diversity and abundance in an abrupt permafrost erosion site and highlights the importance of soil age and permafrost layers in driving microbial community variations.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Barbara E. Stopschinski, Sarah Fredrich, Steven Vernino, Lauren Phillips, Kyle M. Blackburn
Summary: A 59-year-old man presented with left arm numbness and was incidentally found to have a thymoma. After resection, he experienced fatigue, weight loss, and anorexia, followed by a seizure. Further workup revealed multiple brain lesions. Treatment with steroids and plasma exchange resulted in symptom resolution. This case highlights the rare association between thymoma and encephalitis, emphasizing the importance of timely identification and treatment.
Article
Forestry
Jan Holeksa, Magdalena Zywiec, Michal Bogdziewicz, Przemyslaw Kurek, Fiona Milne-Rostkowska, Lukasz Piechnik, Barbara Seget
Summary: The regeneration of coniferous tree species, specifically Norway spruce, is dependent on forest structures related to tree death such as canopy gaps and decaying wood. Sapling mortality rates differ significantly between different microsites, with the highest mortality on dead wood, intermediate on undisturbed soil, and lowest on mounds. Canopy openness and decay class of the wood were found to influence sapling mortality.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kyung-Shin Lee, Bung-Nyun Kim, Jinwoo Cho, Yoon-Young Jang, Yoon-Jung Choi, Woo-Seok Lee, Changwoo Han, Hyun Joo Bae, Youn-Hee Lim, Johanna Inhyang Kim, Choong Ho Shin, Young Ah Lees, Yun-Chul Hong
Summary: This study found that 6-year-old children tend to score higher on total IQ if they live in greener neighborhoods, with a stronger association between children's total IQ and built greenness. This provides further evidence of the health benefits of greenness and supports urban planning and public health efforts to create healthy cities for children and pregnant women.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Cristina M. Gaudioso, Rachel Zolno, Anne Wagner, Soe Mar
Summary: We present a 6-year-old girl with waxing and waning neurologic symptoms, including pain, weakness, dizziness, and difficulty walking. MRI revealed multiple lesions in various regions of the brain and spinal cord, while CSF analysis showed positive oligoclonal bands. Blood tests were negative for specific antibodies but positive for Epstein-Barr viral capsid antigen IgG.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Michael Scott Demyan, Neil Smeck
Summary: The study found that over 25 years, reclaimed surface coal mines showed increases in soil organic carbon and cycling of basic cations, while soil structure development decreased and pH levels also dropped. These changes suggest that surface horizons are more influenced by soil forming factors than spoil, which is more affected by the random conditions of reclamation.
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jens Bloecher, Maxime Brami, Isabelle Sofie Feinauer, Eliza Stolarczyk, Yoan Diekmann, Lisa Vetterdietz, Marina Karapetian, Laura Winkelbach, Vanessa Kokot, Leonardo Vallini, Astrid Stobbe, Wolfgang Haak, Christina Papageorgopoulou, Rudiger Krause, Svetlana Sharapova, Joachim Burger
Summary: This study provides insight into the family-level organization of prehistoric societies during the Bronze Age. The research shows that life expectancy was low in the studied burial mound, with adult males living longer than females. By analyzing the genome data, a family tree spanning three generations was constructed, revealing the importance of biological relationships between male siblings in society and the patrilineal descent group membership.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rita L. Grunberg, Fletcher W. Halliday, Robert W. Heckman, Brooklynn N. Joyner, Kayleigh R. O'Keeffe, Charles E. Mitchell
Summary: Disease can drive variation in host community structure by altering the interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes. Reducing disease burden can decrease plant richness, increase aboveground biomass, and amplify variation in host community structure. These findings highlight the importance of stochastic processes in plant communities and reveal the potential for disease to regulate variation in host community structure.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Stacy A. Drake, Ni Zhang, Courtney Applewhite, Katherine Fowler, John B. Holcomb
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
(2017)
Article
Criminology & Penology
Stacy A. Drake, Cathy Koetting, Kathi Thimsen, Nancy Downing, Carolyn Porta, Peggy Hardy, Julie L. Valentine, Cris Finn, Joan Engebretson
JOURNAL OF FORENSIC NURSING
(2018)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Ronald Chang, Stacy A. Drake, John B. Holcomb, Garrett Phillips, Charles E. Wade, Kristofer M. Charlton-Ouw
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stacy A. Drake, Sadie H. Conway, Yijiong Yang, Latarsha S. Cheatham, Dwayne A. Wolf, Sasha D. Adams, Charles E. Wade, John B. Holcomb
Summary: This study revealed that readmissions and repeated falls are frequent occurrences in the clinical sequence of fall fatalities. Efforts to prevent fall-related readmissions should be a top priority for improving fall outcomes and increasing the quality of life among those at risk of falling.
Article
Medicine, Legal
Stacy A. Drake, Anthony Akande, P. Adam Kelly, Yijiong Yang, Dwayne A. Wolf
Summary: This study assessed the possibility of elder abuse and neglect by using simple screening criteria and a supplemental data collection tool. The results showed that a large number of cases were excluded using the screening criteria, leaving only a smaller percentage of cases for further investigation, which indicated the effectiveness of the screening process in identifying potential cases of abuse and neglect.
JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Diane Santa Maria, Nikhil Padhye, Michael Businelle, Yijiong Yang, Jennifer Jones, Alexis Sims, Marguerita Lightfoot
Summary: This study tested the efficacy of a smartphone-based, just-in-time intervention for HIV prevention in young adults experiencing homelessness, finding promising effects on drug use, stress, and urges for sex in the intervention group.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Medicine, Legal
Stacy A. Drake, Caitlyn Thoene, Margaret Foster, Carolyn Porta, Adam W. Pickens
Summary: In the United States, state governments mandate medicolegal death investigation practices and policies, leading to inconsistency in job prerequisites and training across states. Existing research has identified various occupational safety risks and health threats faced by medicolegal death investigators, highlighting the need for further studies to inform health promotion and injury prevention strategies.
JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Medicine, Legal
Jennifer R. Snippen, Melissa Cheyney, Stacy A. Drake
Summary: Despite efforts to advance infant death investigation, law enforcement officials face difficulties, such as inadequate preparation, overwhelming emotions, and a victim-suspect dilemma, that hinder consistent and reliable investigations of sudden unexpected infant deaths.
JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Stacy A. Drake, Michael K. Lemke, Yijiong Yang
Summary: This study examines the association between firearm violence and complex systems theory, focusing on trends, clusters, and contextual correlates in Harris County, United States. The results show heterogeneous shifts in firearm homicide risks across geographical areas with different levels of risk, resilient clusters of firearm homicides in certain districts over time, and nonlinear relationships between known contextual factors and the distribution of firearm homicides risks, particularly regarding ethnicity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Gerontology
Darcy Jones (Dj) McMaughan, John M. Halphen, Patricia Velky, Jason Burnett, Stacy A. Drake
Summary: Small residential care homes in the United States provide affordable community-based care for disabled older adults. However, there are concerns about the quality of care in some unlicensed and unregulated facilities. This commentary calls for comprehensive system reform to end victimization in unethical small residential care homes, with recommendations at federal, state, and local levels.
JOURNAL OF AGING & SOCIAL POLICY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Diane Santa Maria, Nikhil Padhye, Yijiong Yang, Kathryn Gallardo, Michael Businelle
JMIR PUBLIC HEALTH AND SURVEILLANCE
(2018)
Article
Medicine, Legal
Dwayne A. Wolf, Stacy A. Drake, Francine K. Snow
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ni Zhang, Stacy A. Drake, Kele Ding
JMIR FORMATIVE RESEARCH
(2020)