CONCLUSION: These findings do not support the 2000 g threshold as a clinically meaningful determinant of suitability for VPS placement. Further research is necessary to delineate other potential modifiable and identifiable drivers of shunt appropriateness.

Sextortion is a form of digitally facilitated sexual abuse that causes severe psychological, financial, and social harm, particularly to minors and marginalized adults. This study presents the first quantitative typology of people who commit sextortion, based on a clustering analysis of 111 U.S. judicial cases. Four distinct subtypes of offenders were identified: adult-focused financial sextortion; minor-focused CSAM-related sextortion; technologically sophisticated coercion of minors, sometimes...

Methamphetamine is a potent central nervous system stimulant that is highly addictive. Although methamphetamine use has historically been localized to the Western United States Census region, its reach has been growing, and methamphetamine use is now expanding throughout the United States and the world. Methamphetamine is now considered a definite cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Despite being one of the fastest growing causes of pulmonary arterial hypertension, recommendations to guide...

CONCLUSION: In pediatric patients in OHCA following drowning, endotracheal intubation was not associated with significantly different odds of favorable neurological outcome or survival at hospital discharge compared to BVM. No differences in outcomes also occurred in non-OHCA patients based on provision of prehospital supplemental oxygen.

EPM remains particularly rampant in racing populations due to transport stress, young age, and congregate housing conditions. For compounding pharmacists, understanding that we're managing chronic parasite suppression - not achieving cure - fundamentally changes our approach to formulation strategy, stability assessment, and client counseling. The two formulations presented separately represent years of refinement, demonstrating compounding's essential role when commercial products fall short.