Background Malignant pleural effusion affects more than 750,000 persons each year across
Europe and the United States. Pleurodesis with the administration of talc in hospitalized …

Importance For treatment of malignant pleural effusion, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
(NSAIDs) are avoided because they may reduce pleurodesis efficacy. Smaller chest tubes …

Mass transfer from entrapped nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) at subsurface locations of
environmental contamination typically takes place in three‐dimensional groundwater flow …

Background Over 30% of adult patients with pleural infection either die and/or require
surgery. There is no robust means of predicting at baseline presentation which patients will …

Physicians face considerable challenges in ensuring safe and effective care for patients
admitted to hospital with pleural disease. While subspecialty development has driven up …

Rationale: Patients with malignant pleural effusion experience breathlessness, which is
treated by drainage and pleurodesis. Incomplete drainage results in residual dyspnea and …

Osborn et al.(1) sampled 68 water wells located in upstate New York (Genesee formation)
and northeast Pennsylvania (Catskill and Lockhaven formations). The study opined that …

There is an increasing need for inexpensive and rapid screening tests in point-of-care
clinical oncology settings. Herein, we develop a swab “dip” test in saliva obtained from …

PCB congener data for Newark Bay surface sediments were analyzed using PCA and PMF,
and relationships between the outcomes from these two techniques were explored. The …

Source identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in environmental samples has
advanced greatly in the last 20 years and continues to advance. To realize potential benefits …