Leveraging Telemedicine to Reduce the Financial Burden of Asthma Care.

One of the most compelling arguments for telemedicine is its potential to increase health care access by making care more affordable for patients and families, including those affected by asthma. This goal is critically important in the United States, where the high cost of asthma care is associated with nonadherence to preventive care regimens and suboptimal health outcomes. In this clinical commentary review, we draw from the literature and our own research to identify opportunities for and challenges to leveraging telemedicine to reduce the financial burden of asthma care.

Compartment-specific phosphorylation of rat thyroid hormone receptor alpha1 regulates nuclear localization and retention.

The thyroid hormone receptor alpha1 (TRalpha1) is a transcription factor, which can activate or repress gene expression in response to thyroid hormone. In addition, some of its actions, including DNA binding and transcriptional activation, are thought to be regulated by phosphorylation. Results presented here, using Xenopus oocyte microinjection assays, demonstrate that a phosphorylated form of rat TRalpha1 is present in the nucleus, whereas unphosphorylated TRalpha1 remains cytoplasmic.

Air rifle pellet injury to the heart with retrograde caval migration.

Great emphasis is placed on the lethality of modern high-powered street weapons, and their impact on mortality from firearm injuries. Presented is a case of an air rifle BB injury to the chest, resulting in a penetrating injury of the right heart, with apparent retrograde embolization to the inferior vena cava. Although no clinical evidence of pericardial tamponade was present 4 hours following injury, 150 mL of pericardial blood was encountered at median sternotomy, secondary to a right atrial appendage entry wound.

Traumatic aneurysm of the superficial temporal artery: case report.

Traumatic aneurysms of the temporal artery are uncommon, with less than 200 cases reported in the literature. A case resulting from a head injury from playing a popular new survival game known as "paintball" is presented here. A general review of the literature on traumatic temporal artery aneurysms is provided, as well as information on this new form of recreation and safety recommendations for "paintball" players.