2634. Human Metapneumovirus in a Children’s Hospital: It Should Get More Attention

How valuable is cardiac rehabilitation and who should get it?

Cognitive stimulation in ICU patients: should we pay more attention?

ICUs have raised survival rates, but they have highlighted the need to reduce the morbidity of ICU patients and improve their short-and long-term functional outcomes. Frequently these patients, especially with acute respiratory distress syndrome, present neuro-cognitive impairments [1] that extend beyond their acute phase and hospital stay and lead to signifi cant defi cits in quality of life [...

Raising the sauropod neck: it costs more to get less.

The long necks of gigantic sauropod dinosaurs are commonly assumed to have been used for high browsing to obtain enough food. However, this analysis questions whether such a posture was reasonable from the standpoint of energetics. The energy cost of circulating the blood can be estimated accurately from two physiological axioms that relate metabolic rate, blood flow rate and arterial blood pre...

it is time to pay more attention to sperm cryopreservation: now more than ever!

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Should otolaryngologists pay more attention to nasal swell bodies?

BACKGROUND The nasal swell body (NSB) is a distinct structure of the anterior nasal septum. Comprised of septal cartilage, bone, and a thick mucosal lining, the NSB is visible on endoscopic examination and radiographic study. However, it receives little attention in the clinical setting and can be confused with high septal deviation. Based on anatomical and histological evidence, investigators ...