Planetary Protection Implementation and Verification Approach for the Mars 2020 Mission.

The Mars 2020 Flight System comprises a Cruise Stage; Aeroshell; Entry, Descent, and Landing system; Perseverance rover; and the Ingenuity helicopter. The Perseverance rover was successfully delivered to Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. Among its science objectives, Perseverance is meant to search for rocks that are capable of preserving chemical traces of ancient life, if it existed, and to core and cache rock and regolith samples.

Excess 30-Day Heart Failure Readmissions and Mortality in Black Patients Increases With Neighborhood Deprivation.

Background: Longstanding racial disparities in heart failure (HF) outcomes exist in the United States, in part, due to social determinants of health. We examined whether neighborhood environment modifies the disparity in 30-day HF readmissions and mortality between Black and White patients in the Southeastern United States.

Methods: We created a geocoded retrospective cohort of patients hospitalized for acute HF within Emory Healthcare from 2010 to 2018.

Relation of Neighborhood Disadvantage to Heart Failure Symptoms and Hospitalizations.

Residence in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods may influence patient's health-related behaviors and overall health. We evaluated the association of neighborhood disadvantage on heart failure (HF) symptom burden and hospitalization rates. We characterized neighborhood deprivation in 359 HF subjects (age 56 ± 13 years, 52% black) in metropolitan Atlanta using the Area Deprivation Index (ADI).

Different Lenses for the Same Story: Examining How Implicit Bias Can Lead Us to Different Clinical Decisions for the "Same" Patient.

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