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The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has rapidly become a global pandemic. A major cause of morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 has been the worsening hypoxia that, if untreated, can progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and respiratory failure. Past work has found that intubated patients with ARDS experience physiological benefits to the prone position, because it promotes better matching of pulmonary perfusion to ventilation, improved secretion clearance, and recruitment of dependent areas of the lungs. We created a systemwide multi-institutional (New York-Presbyterian Hospital enterprise) protocol for placing awake, nonintubated, emergency department patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in the prone position. In this piece, we describe the background literature and the approach we have taken at our institution as we care for a high burden of COVID-19 cases with respiratory symptoms.Objective The long-term morbidity of isolated left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia (L-CDH) has already been described. However, antenatal criteria impacting gastrointestinal morbidity (GIM) are not yet defined. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of fetal stomach position on GIM at 2 years. Methods A retrospective, observational and multicenter cohort study was conducted from January 2010 to January 2014. Patients whose fetuses had isolated L-CDH, with or without fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion (FETO), were included. Prenatal maternal, fetal and pediatric data were collected. Fetal stomach position was evaluated a posteriori by two observers using ultrasound images of the four-chamber view of the heart to calculate the lung area-to-head circumference ratio (LHR). The primary outcome was GIM at 2 years assessed in a composite manner. Regression analysis was performed in order to investigate the effect on various GIM outcome variables, of LHR, stomach position and FETO. Results Forty-seven patients were included in the analysis. Thirteen (27.7%) infants did not meet the criterion of exclusive oral feeding at 2 years of age. The position of the stomach was significantly and independently associated with the duration of parenteral nutrition (OR 19.86, p = 0.031) and the persistence of oral aversion at 2 years (OR 3.40, p = 0.006). FETO does not seem to affect GIM. Conclusion In isolated L-CDH, fetal stomach position is the only predictive factor of GIM at 2 years. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Chemoresistance is a hallmark of cancer stem cells (CSCs). To develop novel therapeutic strategies that target CSCs, we established osteosarcoma-initiating (OSi) cells by introducing the c-Myc gene into bone marrow stromal cells derived from Ink4a/Arf KO mice. These OSi cells include bipotent committed cells (similar to osteochondral progenitor cells) with a high tumorigenic activity as well as tripotent cells (similar to mesenchymal stem cells) of low tumorigenicity. We recently showed that the tripotent OSi cells are highly resistant to chemotherapeutic agents, and that depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton in these cells induces their terminal adipocyte differentiation and suppresses their tumorigenicity. We here provide an overview of modulation of actin cytoskeleton dynamics associated with terminal adipocyte differentiation in osteosarcoma as well as discuss the prospects for new therapeutic strategies that target chemoresistant CSCs by inducing their differentiation.In January 2020, we identified two severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-infected patients in a familial cluster with one person coming from Wuhan, China. The complete genome sequences of two SARS-CoV-2 strains isolated from these patients were identical and 99.98% similar to strains isolated in Wuhan. This is genetically suggestive of human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and indicates Wuhan as the most plausible origin of the early outbreak in Vietnam. The younger patient had a mild upper respiratory illness and a brief viral shedding, whereas the elderly with multi-morbidity had pneumonia, prolonged viral shedding, and residual lung damage. The evidence of nonsynonymous substitutions in the ORF1ab region of the viral sequence warrants further studies.As a new material with excellent mechanical properties and good stability, slide-ring gels have attracted more and more attention and research. However, it cannot be widely used due to its relatively complicated synthesis. Herein, we use 6-acrylamidomethylether-modified α-cyclodextrin (αCDAAmMe) and PEG 20000 diacrylate (PEG 20000 DA) to construct a polypseudorotaxane. https://www.selleckchem.com/Bcl-2.html Then, the polypseudorotaxane reacts with acrylamide via a photo-initiated polymerization in-situ to conveniently obtain a slide-ring hydrogel with good elastic property and high recovery property. That is, the hydrogel can be easily stretched to 22.5 times of its original length but recovered rapidly and almost reversibly. These results enable the application of hydrogel to make an intrinsically stretchable and compressible supercapacitor after doping ions and the adhesion of commercially available carbon nanotube (CNT) paper as electrodes, giving the ionic conductivity as 17.0 mS/cm (comparable to that of the commercial PVA/H3PO4 electrolyte) and the capacitance as 0.87 uF/cm2 (at the scan speed of 100 mV/s), and its capacitance can be further enhanced under the stretching.In the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic—referred to as COVID‐19—there has been much uncertainty. We remain uncertain about its precise origin, its structure and composition, how best to test for it, or for resulting immunity, whether or not exposure leads to immunity, whether or not disposable surgical masks are effective, why men and some ethnic minorities are more susceptible and just exactly what the death rate as a result of this virus is. However, one thing is absolutely clear, there has been an epidemic of manuscripts on the subject of COVID‐19 to nursing journals and, amongst these new manuscripts the rejection rate is, unfortunately, very high.Rising hostility towards immigrants characterised the 2016 Presidential election in the United States (US) and subsequent policy priorities by the new presidential administration. The political shift towards aggressive policies targeting undocumented immigrants is far-reaching and extends into other communities that convive con-or coexist with-immigrant communities. Our study aims to examine the rippling effects of these anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric on health and social service providers in Southeast Michigan who predominantly serve Latino immigrants. Between April and August 2018, we conducted in-depth individual interviews in two Federally Qualified Health Centers and a non-profit social service agency at a county health department. We interviewed 28 frontline health and social service providers. After coding and thematic analyses, we found that staff members' experiences in supporting immigrant clients was congruent with definitions of secondary trauma stress and compassion fatigue, whereby exposure to clients' trauma combined with job burden subsequently impacted the mental health of providers.