Weathering the Storm: Adapting in Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The provision of palliative care has been seen to have a significant impact on the interprofessional health care team. Being emotionally present to support patients and families at their most stressful points in life can result in compassion satisfaction or compassion fatigue. Providing palliative care through the COVID-19 pandemic added another layer of complexity to this professional caregiving experience.

Outcomes of a novel double-stapled anastomotic technique in esophagectomy.

The double-stapled () anastomotic technique associates with lower odds of anastomotic leak and stricture. , Single posterior stapled.

Development of PainFace software to simplify, standardize, and scale up mouse grimace analyses.

Facial grimacing is used to quantify spontaneous pain in mice and other mammals, but scoring relies on humans with different levels of proficiency. Here, we developed a cloud-based software platform called PainFace ( http://painface.net ) that uses machine learning to detect 4 facial action units of the mouse grimace scale (orbitals, nose, ears, whiskers) and score facial grimaces of black-coated C57BL/6 male and female mice on a 0 to 8 scale.

No Man Is an Island: Resiliency Among Older African American Men Living with HIV.

African American men face chronic illness earlier in life and earlier death due to higher severity of illness and poor control of chronic diseases than their white male counterparts. Preexposure and post-exposure prophylaxis PrEP and PREP have improved the odds of survival among those living with HIV. However, the anti-retroviral treatments, though effective, are only as effective as early prevention and detection and in cases where patients can adhere to treatment regimens.