Patient experiences after hospitalizations for elective surgery.

Background: Little is known from patients' perspective about the quality of postdischarge care and the causes of rehospitalization after elective surgery.

Methods: A prospective observational cohort study was conducted.

Results: Of 400 patient participants, 374 completed the 30-day follow-up questionnaire (completion rate, 94%).

Indirect protection of adults from rotavirus by pediatric rotavirus vaccination.

Background: Pediatric vaccination has resulted in declines in disease in unvaccinated individuals through decreasing pathogen circulation in the community. About 2 years after implementation of pediatric rotavirus vaccination in the United States, dramatic declines in rotavirus disease were observed in both vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Whether this protection extends to adults is unknown.

Fetal ethanol exposure attenuates aversive oral effects of TrpV1, but not TrpA1 agonists in rats.

In humans, fetal ethanol exposure is highly predictive of adolescent ethanol use and abuse. Prior work in our labs indicated that fetal ethanol exposure results in stimulus-induced chemosensory plasticity in the taste and olfactory systems of adolescent rats. In particular, we found that increased ethanol acceptability could be attributed, in part, to an attenuated aversion to ethanol's aversive odor and quinine-like bitter taste quality.