Introduction: Obstetrical emergencies are a high-risk yet infrequent occurrence in the emergency department. While U.S. emergency medicine (EM) residency graduates are required to perform 10 low-risk normal spontaneous vaginal deliveries, little is known about how residencies prepare residents to manage obstetrical emergencies. We sought to profile...
Mid-infrared hyperspectral imaging has in the past decade emerged as a promising tool for medical diagnostics. In this work, nonlinear frequency upconversion based hyperspectral imaging in the 6 to 8 mu m spectral range is presented for the first time, using both broadband globar and narrowband quantum cascade laser illumination. AgGaS2 is used as ...
RA is a chronic inflammatory disease that is challenging to model in vitro. Historically cells have been cultured out of the joint, particularly Type B fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) in monolayer culture conditions, in order to model behavior of disease-specific cells for drug screening as well as potential therapeutic discovery. In order to be...
Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2) has been associated with the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but the nature of this association has remained unclear. I demonstrate that mice that lack COX2 lose tolerance to pathogen associated molecular patterns. Thus, challenge with dietary cholate—an environmental trigger that I show impairs intestinal b...
This text’s objective is to discuss State racism in Michel Foucault’s work. Considering the biopolitical framework, we will see how state racism can be considered a strategy for exercising power over the social body. Dividing by splitting the social body and establishing a binary opposition among races, the power exercise will operate on biological...
Ready-to-eat shrimp processing is challenging due to the complex biological design with the shell tightly connected to the meat. Several techniques have been developed to weaken or loosen this connection, thus facilitating the subsequent peeling. The loosening process is typically undertaken by maturing the shrimps on ice or in brine, which require...
Critical care, like many healthcare areas, is under a dual assault from significantly increasing demographic and economic pressures. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are highly variable in response to treatment, and increasingly aging populations mean ICUs are under increasing demand and their cohorts are increasingly ill. Equally, patient expect...
How can it be assumed that an individual is incapable of giving consent or does not give it freely? This article analyses three cases handled by the Tribunal of the Roman Rota between 1579 and 1619: the case of a nun from the monastery of Odivelas (Portugal) suffering from mental disorders, and two demands for nullification of marriage based on the...
Le développement d’un médicament est réalisé dans le but de répondre à des objectifs thérapeutiques tout en prévenant les risques pour les patients. L’observance, qui correspond au suivi rigoureux de la prescription du médecin, est une condition primordiale de la réussite du traitement. L'acceptabilité, qui peut être définie comme la capacité et la...
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We are, understandably, forever hearing about the high cost of bringing innovative new drugs and treatments to the healthcare market, especially medicines for smaller subgroups, and the fact that member state health systems often baulk at the prices. This article will argue that such a bypassing and blocking of innovative medicines and treatments i...
