Gastrointestinal Behçet's disease: Manifestations, diagnosis, and management.

Behçet's disease (BD) is a rare, inflammatory vascular disorder with recurrent oral and genital aphthous ulcers, along with ocular and cutaneous manifestations. Gastrointestinal (GI) BD may involve any portion of the GI tract. However, it is commonly described in the terminal ileum, followed by the ileocecal region.

Amazon deforestation causes strong regional warming.

Tropical deforestation impacts the climate through complex land-atmosphere interactions causing local and regional warming. However, whilst the impacts of deforestation on local temperature are well understood, the regional (nonlocal) response is poorly quantified. Here, we used remote-sensed observations of forest loss and dry season land-surface temperature during the period 2001 to 2020 to demonstrate that deforestation of the Amazon caused strong warming at distances up to 100 km away from the forest loss.

An Unusual Cause of Intractable Hiccups.

Hiccups are a minor nuisance for most people and usually resolve within minutes. However, for some, they can persist for years and result in severe symptoms and even death. This case report describes a patient found to have a mediastinal lipoma resulting in intractable hiccups.

Achieving Brazil's Deforestation Target Will Reduce Fire and Deliver Air Quality and Public Health Benefits.

Climate, deforestation, and forest fires are closely coupled in the Amazon, but models of fire that include these interactions are lacking. We trained machine learning models on temperature, rainfall, deforestation, land-use, and fire data to show that spatial and temporal patterns of fire in the Amazon are strongly modified by deforestation. We find that fire count across the Brazilian Amazon increases by 0.

An Unusual Case of Heart Failure: Sometimes When You Hear Hoof Beats You Should Think of Zebras.

This case describes a 74-year-old male who was hospitalized with hyponatremia and worsening systolic and new diastolic heart failure. Workup showed low voltage QRS complexes on electrocardiogram and new diastolic dysfunction on echocardiogram. Because of this clinical scenario amyloidosis was suspected.

Impact of the 2019/2020 Australian Megafires on Air Quality and Health.

The Australian 2019/2020 bushfires were unprecedented in their extent and intensity, causing a catastrophic loss of habitat, human and animal life across eastern-Australia. We use a regional air quality model to assess the impact of the bushfires on particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM) concentrations and the associated health impact from short-term population exposure to bushfire PM.

Large Air Quality and Public Health Impacts due to Amazonian Deforestation Fires in 2019.

Air pollution from Amazon fires has adverse impacts on human health. The number of fires in the Amazon has increased in recent years, but whether this increase was driven by deforestation or climate has not been assessed. We analyzed relationships between fire, deforestation, and climate for the period 2003 to 2019 among selected states across the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA).

Current and Future Disease Burden From Ambient Ozone Exposure in India.

Long-term ambient ozone (O) exposure is a risk factor for human health. We estimate the source-specific disease burden associated with long-term O exposure in India at high spatial resolution using updated risk functions from the American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II. We estimate 374,000 (95UI: 140,000-554,000) annual premature mortalities using the updated risk function in India in 2015, 200% larger than estimates using the earlier American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II risk function.

Stringent Emission Control Policies Can Provide Large Improvements in Air Quality and Public Health in India.

Exposure to high concentrations of ambient fine particulate matter (PM) is a leading risk factor for public health in India causing a large burden of disease. Business-as-usual economic and industrial growth in India is predicted to increase emissions, worsen air quality, and increase the associated disease burden in future decades. Here we use a high-resolution online-coupled model to estimate the impacts of different air pollution control pathways on ambient PM concentrations and human health in India.

Residential energy use emissions dominate health impacts from exposure to ambient particulate matter in India.

Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM) is a leading contributor to diseases in India. Previous studies analysing emission source attributions were restricted by coarse model resolution and limited PM observations. We use a regional model informed by new observations to make the first high-resolution study of the sector-specific disease burden from ambient PM exposure in India.

Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands.

Climate finance investments and international policy are driving new community-based projects incorporating payments for ecosystem services (PES) to simultaneously store carbon and generate livelihood benefits. Most community-based PES (CB-PES) research focuses on forest areas. Rangelands, which store globally significant quantities of carbon and support many of the world's poor, have seen little CB-PES research attention, despite benefitting from several decades of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) projects.