Public assistance in patients with acute heart failure: a report from the KCHF registry by Yuji Nishimoto, Takao Kato, Takeshi Morimoto, Ryoji Taniguchi, Hidenori Yaku, Yasutaka Inuzuka, Yodo Tamaki, Erika Yamamoto, Yusuke Yoshikawa, Takeshi Kitai, Moritake Iguchi, Masashi Kato, Mamoru Takahashi, Toshikazu Jinnai, Tomoyuki Ikeda, Kazuya Nagao, Takafumi Kawai, Akihiro Komasa, Ryusuke Nishikawa, Yuichi Kawase, Takashi Morinaga, Kanae Su, Mitsunori Kawato, Yuta Seko, Moriaki Inoko, Mamoru Toyofuku, Yutaka Furukawa, Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Kenji Ando, Kazushige Kadota, Satoshi Shizuta, Koh Ono, Koichiro Kuwahara, Neiko Ozasa, Yukihito Sato, Takeshi Kimura

“…After adjusting for the confounders, the risk of the public assistance group relative to the no public assistance group remained insignificant for all‐cause death [hazard ratio (HR), 0.97; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.69–1.32; P = 0.84]. …”
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Ferroptosis Is a Potential Therapeutic Target for Pulmonary Infectious Diseases by Yurong Zhang, Dianlun Qian, Xiangfeng Bai, Shibo Sun

“…Ferroptosis is a new type of iron-dependent cell death caused by lipid peroxide (LPO) accumulation and involved in disease of pulmonary infection. …”
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A Systematic Review of Pediatric and Adult In-Flight Medical Emergencies by Christina Sul, Sherif M. Badawy

“…Despite the fact that most IMEs are self-limited with no serious adverse events, serious IME can lead to death, disability, or other unfavorable health outcomes, particularly as a result of suboptimal medical care. …”
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Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Report of Four Alberta Cases by Ameeta E Singh, Denise H Werker, Lesia R Boychuk, Lilly J Miedzinski

“…Three cases required intensive care, with one experiencing a fulminant course resulting in death. A fourth case with milder illness was identified after epidemiological investigations. …”
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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: Memoirs of Julian by S. P. Rosenbaum

“…Vanessa Bell’s brief memoir-notes of Julian were written in the anguished days following the shock of his death and reveal how mother and son were the most important loves of their lives.…”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Clostridium botulinum by Keith R. Schneider, Rachael Silverberg, Alexandra Chang, Renée M. Goodrich-Schneider

“…The bacteria and spores alone do not cause disease, but they produce the botulinum toxin that causes botulism, a serious paralytic condition that can lead to death. Although it is one of the least common of the foodborne diseases, anyone is susceptible even with the ingestion of only a small amount of toxin present in contaminated food. …”
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Tumour Calcification and Calciphylaxis in End-Stage Renal Disease by Jia Di, Zhenxing Jiang, Min Yang

“…Our patient is a 57-year-old man in his late stage of renal disease who presented with a huge mass at the right hip and necrotic cutaneous ulcers on the lower legs followed by local and systemic infection and death due to septic shock.…”
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Męczeństwo – chrześcijańska wyłączność? by Krzysztof Kościelniak

“…Martyr, one who voluntarily suffers death rather than deny his religion by words or deeds; such action is afforded special, institutionalized recognition in most major religions of the world.…”
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Dynamics of an age-of-infection cholera model by Fred Brauer, Zhisheng Shuai, P. van den Driessche

“…Final size relations for cholera outbreaks are derived for simplified models when input and death are neglected.…”
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Spontaneous Tumor Lysis Syndrome due to Uterine Leiomyosarcoma with Lung Metastases by Vivek Alaigh, Debapriya Datta

“…These metabolic derangements can lead to seizures, cardiac arrhythmias, renal failure, and death. TLS is usually seen after the initiation of chemotherapy for hematologic malignancies. …”
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Trueperella (Arcanobacterium pyogenes) in Farmed White-Tailed Deer by Samantha M. Wisely, Katherin A. Sayler, Kathryn D. Pothier

“…In young fawns, it is a common cause of death. This 3-page fact sheet written by Kathryn D. …”
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How Prepared Are We for Possible Bioterrorist Attacks: An Approach from Emergency Medicine Perspective by Ali Kemal Erenler, Murat Güzel, Ahmet Baydin

“…The large spectrum of bioterrorism involves not only disastrous terrorism with mass casualties, but also microevents using low technology but producing civil unrest, disruption, disease, disabilities, and death. It aims not only to cause mortality and morbidity, but also to lead to social and political disruption. …”
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Newman’s Poetry: The Heart of a Victorian Renaissance Project  by Dampi Somoko

“…The poetic journey as well as the passage from life to death are addressed in renewed forms, figures and motifs.…”
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Mechanistic insights into connexin-mediated neuroglia crosstalk in neurodegenerative diseases by Simona Denaro, Simona D’Aprile, Nunzio Vicario, Rosalba Parenti

“…However, accumulating evidence suggests that Cxs can also act as pathological pore in neuroinflammatory conditions, thereby contributing to neurodegenerative phenomena such as synaptic dysfunction, oxidative stress, and ultimately cell death. This review explores mechanistic insights of Cxs-mediated intercellular communication in the progression of neurodegenerative diseases and discusses the therapeutic potential of targeting Cxs to restore cellular homeostasis.…”
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Oak Treehopper, Platycotis vittata (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Membracidae) by Frank W. Mead

“….), which can, when abundant, cause considerable dieback or even death of small trees. This document is EENY-328 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 57), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Folquet de Marseille ou Foulques de Toulouse ? La mémoire d’un troubadour devenu évêque à travers ses représentations by Léa David

“…Nearly fifty years after his death, they show the central importance of this character, whose memory is blurred by his atypical path, which led him in turn to be a troubadour, a monk, and a bishop.…”
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Géologie, théologie et inquiétudes eschatologiques : William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) et les débats suscités par la thermodynamique à l’époque victorienne by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…Moreover, thermodynamics did not only announce a gradual exhaustion of the resources of the Sun or of our planet, but also the heat death of the universe as a whole. This paper explores the uncertainties and the debates which were caused by such conceptions, which were also used, in a more imaginative way, by H. …”
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L’école de cristallographie de Nancy : un hommage by Welter, Richard

“…The recent death of Professor Yves Dusausoy, one of my first crystallography teachers, gave me the desire to write a article in tribute to the “Nancy school”, where I had the chance to do my scientific studies before embarking on my own career as assistant professor (1994–2000, Henri Poincaré University) and then full professor at Strasbourg University from 2000. …”
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Clostridium difficile: An Important Opportunistic Pathogen in Healthcare-Associated Infections by Soohyoun Ahn, Amarat Simonne

“…One opportunistic pathogen, Clostridium difficile, has been getting more attention in recent years because of its association with antibiotic use and a high death rate among the elderly. This 7-page factsheet will provide an overview of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) with a focus on healthcare-associated infections. …”
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Exú's Work – The Agency of Ritual Objects in Southeast Brazilian Umbanda by Eleonora A. Lundell

“…In people’s experiences of spiritual work (trabalho) and spiritual development (desenvolvimento) carried out with Exús – guardians, guides and protectors who have, after their death, returned in order to work for people’s wellbeing – ritual objects (such as bodies, clothes, beverages, herbs, cigarettes, candles, songs) are seen as constitutive in knowledge production and life transformation. …”
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