Patients' perspectives on pain relief during childbirth and labor epidurals: A pilot qualitative study among women who chose to deliver without neuraxial labor analgesia.

Background: Studies have identified widespread variation in neuraxial labor analgesia use by race, ethnicity, and geographic location. However, limited research has investigated patient-level factors in the decision not to use neuraxial analgesia for labor.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews at a New York City medical center from October 1, 2022, to May 30, 2023.

Seasonal activity and phoresy rates of Nitidulid beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) captured in stands with oak wilt infections in northern Michigan, USA.

Nitidulid beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), the overland vectors of the Bretziella fagacearum fungus that causes oak wilt, were monitored in infection centers in Quercus rubra stands in northern Michigan, USA using baited, wind-oriented traps for 2 years. First nitidulid captures, accounting for <1.5% of total annual captures, occurred in late April in both years (<50 cumulative degree days [DDs]; base 10°C).

Tree species richness and ash density have variable effects on emerald ash borer biological control by woodpeckers and parasitoid wasps in post-invasion white ash stands.

Emerald ash borer (EAB) (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is the most destructive insect to invade North American forests. Identifying habitat features that support EAB natural enemies is necessary to enhance EAB biological control. In many forest ecosystems, tree species diversity has been linked with reduced pest abundance and increases in natural enemy abundance.

Reduced exercise capacity occurs before intrinsic skeletal muscle dysfunction in experimental rat models of pulmonary hypertension.

Reduced exercise capacity in pulmonary hypertension (PH) significantly impacts quality of life. However, the cause of reduced exercise capacity in PH remains unclear. The objective of this study was to investigate whether intrinsic skeletal muscle changes are causative in reduced exercise capacity in PH using preclinical PH rat models with different PH severity.

Persistence and distribution of dinotefuran in tree of heaven.

Spotted lanternfly (SLF) ( (White)), an invasive planthopper discovered in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.