Purpose: The opioid epidemic in the United States is an ongoing public health concern.
Health care institutions use standardized patient satisfaction surveys to assess the patient …

PURPOSE Although cesarean delivery is the most common surgical procedure in the
United States, postoperative opioid prescribing varies greatly. We hypothesized that patient …

Study objective In the United States, alcohol use disorder adversely affects 5.6% of all adults.
Excessive alcohol consumption adversely affects organ functions critical for adaptation to …

Molecularly-targeted agents have improved outcomes for a subset of patients with BRAF-mutated
melanoma, but treatment of resistant and BRAF wild-type tumors remains a challenge. …

The authors regret mislabelling the reference group for the payor variable in Fig. 2, Fig. 2
legend, and Table A3 legend in the original article, all of which appear corrected below. The …

Free-living and captive chimpanzees are faced with a struggle to survive. Those chimpanzees
that are free-living are faced with extinction through habitat destruction and poaching. …

Metastatic melanoma is the most aggressive cutaneous cancer, with poor prognosis and a
median overall survival of less than a year. Current therapies are effective in only a subset of …

Background: Mer tyrosine kinase is frequently overexpressed and activated in non-small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC). In addition, genetic inhibition of Mer reduces NSCLC cell growth in …

MERTK is a receptor tyrosine kinase that is aberrantly expressed in a number of cancers and
is a member of the TAM family of RTKs, along with TYRO3 and AXL. Recent studies have …

Nitrate comprises an important part of aerosol mass in non-urban locations during some
times of the year. Properties of aerosol nitrate were characterized at several IMPROVE …