Soft, Modular Power for Composing Robots with Embodied Energy.

The adaptable, modular structure of muscles, combined with their confluent energy storage allows for numerous architectures found in nature: trunks, tongues, and tentacles to name some more complex ones. To provide an artificial analog to this biological soft muscle, a self-powered, soft hydrostat actuator is presented. As an example of how to use these modules, a worm robot is assembled where the near totality of the body stores electrochemical potential.

"Financially Palliative": The Need to Address a Perplexing Financial Conundrum in Emergency and Critical Care.

Unlabelled: The terminology "Financially Palliative" is a pseudonym and refers to a unique challenge faced in countries where public healthcare insurance coverage is not robust and the percentage of out-of-pocket health expenditure continues to be high. Emergency and critical care healthcare expenditures in such circumstances usually pose additional burden as they are unforeseen expenses, disproportionately high, for which most people are unprepared. Such situations may lead into a vicious cycle that initiates with expenditure hesitancy and delay in definitive care, which in turn leads to deterioration in the patient's condition and delay-related complications.

Toward Heart-Healthy and Sustainable Cities: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association.

Nearly 56% of the global population lives in cities, with this number expected to increase to 6.6 billion or >70% of the world's population by 2050. Given that cardiometabolic diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in people living in urban areas, transforming cities and urban provisioning systems (or urban systems) toward health, equity, and economic productivity can enable the dual attainment of climate and health goals.

Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis Presenting as Hypoglycemia in a Patient With Type 2 Diabetes and Von Gierke's Disease.

Von Gierke's disease (VGD) is rarely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). We present a case of VGD with DM2 that presented with hypoglycemia in the setting of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in a young male with VGD using the sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin. The patient required resuscitation with fluids containing glucose prior to the administration of insulin for DKA protocol with significant clinical improvement.