Sam Miller

What Happens When a Whale Is Born?

What Happens When a Whale Is Born?

When sperm-whale calves are born, weighing about a ton, they are pretty helpless. They can’t immediately swim—their flukes are bent from being cramped in the womb—and, to use the technical term, they are “negatively buoyant.” Left to their own devices, they will sink. What the footage showed is that, for the first three hours of…

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Bedside Classification of ARDS Subtype May Help Spot Patients With Higher Death Risk

Bedside Classification of ARDS Subtype May Help Spot Patients With Higher Death Risk

CHICAGO — Classifying inflammatory subphenotypes of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with bedside lab testing was feasible and showed differences in 60-day mortality, according to a prospective cohort study. Among the 88 patients with a hyperinflammatory subphenotype, 60-day mortality was 51% compared with 28% in the 398 patients with a hypoinflammatory subphenotype (risk ratio 1.8,…

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