A Series of 8 Illicit Fentanyl Intoxication Deaths in Infants and Toddlers.

We report 8 children younger than 2 years who died from acute illicit fentanyl intoxications in Connecticut between 2020 and 2022.The Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (CT OCME) investigates all unexpected, violent, and suspicious deaths in Connecticut. The CT OCME's electronic database was searched for fentanyl deaths by age.

Impact of statewide safe sleep legislation on hospital practices and rates of sudden unexpected infant deaths.

Background: Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) is the leading cause of death in the post-neonatal period in the United States. In 2015, Connecticut (CT) passed legislation to reduce the number of SUIDs from hazardous sleep environments requiring birthing hospitals/centers provide anticipatory guidance on safe sleep to newborn caregivers before discharge. The objective of our study was to understand the barriers and facilitators for compliance with the safe sleep legislation by birthing hospitals and to determine the effect of this legislation on SUIDs associated with unsafe sleep environments.

An Underestimation of Heroin Deaths Due to the Use of "Acute Opiate Intoxication" on Death Certificates.

Introduction: Deaths due to drug intoxications in the United States have increased. Public health agencies track the specific intoxicants using death certificate data in order to develop and focus prevention strategies. Criteria used to decide what deaths need toxicological investigation and how these deaths are certified will affect this data.

Pseudotetraploid clone with structural chromosomal rearrangements in a chondromyxoid fibroma: a case report.

Chondromyxoid fibroma is a rare benign tumor accounting for 1-2% of primary bone tumors. Most of the patients are young males in the 2nd and 3rd decades of life. Metaphyses of long bones are predominantly affected.