Addressing Health-Care Disparities in Pediatric Disaster Planning: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: The Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Medicine (WRAP-EM) is a multi-state, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) funded pediatric disaster center of excellence. WRAP-EM set out to determine the impact of health disparities on its 11 core areas.

Methods: We conducted 11 focus groups during April 2021.

Pediatric Burn Care: How Burn Camps Survived and Thrived During the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Burn camps play a vital role in the recovery of burn survivors by allowing them to develop the confidence and skill sets needed to reintegrate back into society. During the COVID-19 pandemic, burn camps across the United States and Canada could not hold any in-person activities. They had to either pause burn camps or quickly adapt to a virtual online platform.

Dietary curcumin with cisplatin administration modulates tumour marker indices in experimental fibrosarcoma.

Curcumin, the active constituent of Curcuma longa, which itself possesses antitumour activity against experimental tumours, enhances the antitumour effect of the widely used anticancer drug cisplatin, when used in combination against fibrosarcoma. Tumour marker enzymes such as aminotransferases, lactate dehydrogenase, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase were analysed in liver and kidney homogenates of experimental rats. All these enzyme activities were markedly increased in tumour bearing animals.