Minding the Gap(s): Hospitalists Experience Aspirational, Safety, and Knowledge Deficits That Prevent Them From Practicing POCUS

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has been a mainstay of clinical decision-making in the intensive care unit and emergency department for more than a decade, but adoption into hospital medicine has lagged behind.Recently, internal medicine residency programs have started to develop POCUS curricula for trainees, though concurrent hospitalist training

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Left Hemifacial Lymphatic Malformation in a Nine-Year-Old Boy

The diagnosis of lymphatic malformations can present problems with diagnosis and treatment.Non-response to a chosen procedure can magnify the initial problems or create new ones.We present such a case.CASE REPORT A 9-year-old boy initially presented with a 3-year history of soft upper eyelid mass with red-violet discoloration after hitting his head

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Epigenetics and Heart Development

Epigenetic control of gene expression during cardiac development and disease has been a topic of intense research in recent years.Advances in experimental methods to study DNA accessibility, transcription factor occupancy, and chromatin conformation capture technologies have helped identify regions of chromatin structure that play a role in regulat

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