Indoor Air Sources of Outdoor Air Pollution: Health Consequences, Policy, and Recommendations: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.

Indoor sources of air pollution worsen indoor and outdoor air quality. Thus, identifying and reducing indoor pollutant sources would decrease both indoor and outdoor air pollution, benefit public health, and help address the climate crisis. As outdoor sources come under regulatory control, unregulated indoor sources become a rising percentage of the problem.

Monocyte Distribution Width Predicts Sepsis, Respiratory Failure, and Death in COVID-19.

Introduction Sepsis is the leading cause of hospital mortality nationwide. Early recognition has been shown to improve outcomes. This research investigates the use of monocyte distribution width's (MDW) ability to detect sepsis and clinically correlate to outcomes in COVID-19 infection.

3D-cultured blastoids model human embryogenesis from pre-implantation to early gastrulation stages.

Naive human pluripotent stem cells have the remarkable ability to self-organize into blastocyst-like structures ("blastoids") that model lineage segregation in the pre-implantation embryo. However, the extent to which blastoids can recapitulate the defining features of human post-implantation development remains unexplored. Here, we report that blastoids cultured on thick three-dimensional (3D) extracellular matrices capture hallmarks of early post-implantation development, including epiblast lumenogenesis, rapid expansion and diversification of trophoblast lineages, and robust invasion of extravillous trophoblast cells by day 14.

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Prevalence, Screening, and Treatment Practices in American Samoa, 2016.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a serious pregnancy complication and understudied public health issue in American Samoa. The goals of this study were to (1) estimate the prevalence of GDM in American Samoa, (2) evaluate current screening practices for GDM, and (3) evaluate obtainment of GDM treatments in 2016. This cross-sectional study used 3 data sources: electronic health records, a labor and delivery logbook, and the American Samoa Department of Health (ASDOH) Maternal and Children's Health (MCH) Postpartum database.

The COVID-19 pandemic and sleep medicine: a look back and a look ahead.

Unlabelled: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a reminder that global infectious disease outbreaks are not new and they have the potential to cause catastrophic morbidity and mortality, disrupt health care delivery, demand critical decision making in the absence of scientific certainty, interrupt trainee education, inflict economic damage, and cause a spike in demand for health care services that exceeds societal capacity. In this article, we look back at how the sleep medicine community adapted to challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. To mitigate viral transmission perhaps the single most effective and efficient adaptation was the rapid adoption of telemedicine.

Opportunities and unknowns in adapting pediatric sleep practices to a pandemic world.

Sullivan S, Anastasi M, Beam E, et al. Opportunities and unknowns in adapting pediatric sleep practices to a pandemic world. .