TOPIC This is the personal perspective of the author's experience during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. As a member of a professional mental health volunteer organization, this chronicles 3 months' experience in the local shelters. PURPOSE Difficulties with organizational support and structure hampered the effectiveness and functioning of this volunteer organization in the shelters. To identify...

Recent disasters such as the 2003 SARS outbreak, the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir/Pakistan earthquake and 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita clearly identified the shortcomings of IT solutions for disaster rescue and recovery. Of particular note was the accompanying disaster of the lack of viable or deployed data management solutions, specifically information integration and information s...

In this article, we consider the intersection of religious coping and the experience of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in a lifespan sample of adults living in South Louisiana during the 2005 storms. Participants were young, middle-age, older, and oldest-old adults who were interviewed during the post-disaster recovery period. Qualitative analyses confirmed that three dimensions of religion were r...

In the ever-changing world of cancer care, exploring treatment approaches that are holistic and interactive and emphasize the patient’s role in the healing process is essential. According to medical oncologist Jeffrey R. Geffen MD, FACP, medicine exists for two distinct purposes: “The relative purpose of medicine is to relieve symptoms and to cure disease. But there is also an ultimate purpose,...

Developing drug-like molecules to inhibit the interactions formed by disordered proteins is desirable due to the high correlation of disorder with protein implicated in disease, but is challenging due in part to the lack of atomistically resolved and resolvable structures from conformationally dynamic systems. Ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) is well-positioned to assess protein ligand in...