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Speaking in Tongues: What Parents Really Think About Tongue-Tie Surgery for Their Infants.

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By Todd Ochs
| Physician's Weekly
We evaluate maternal perspectives of frenotomy for ankyloglossia in newborns. We searched highly frequented forums like babycenter.com for comments related to frenotomy posted from 2012 to 2017. We applied modified grounded theory, reviewed posts for thematic synthesis, and calculated frequencies for each theme. High decisional conflict, low discussion of surgical complications, and an overall moderate positive experience were noted.
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Community pediatric care is diminishing

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By Todd Ochs
| The Hospitalist Verified
Perspectives Publish date: January 15, 2020 The mantra of community hospital administrators is that pediatric care does not pay. Neonatal intensive care pays. For pediatrics, it is similar to how football programs (Medicare patients) support minor sports (pediatrics and obstetrics) at colleges. However, fewer even mildly sick newborns are cared for at community hospitals, which has led to a centralization of neonatal and pediatric care and a loss of pediatric expertise at the affected hospitals.
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Sulfur Dioxide Protects Against Collagen Accumulation in Pulmonary Artery in Association With Downregulation of the Transforming Growth Factor β1/Smad Pathway in Pulmonary Hypertensive Rats

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By Wen Yu, Die Liu, Chen Liang, Todd Ochs
| jaha.ahajournals.org
Methods and Results A rat model of monocrotaline?induced pulmonary vascular collagen remodeling was developed and administered with l?aspartate???hydroxamate or SO donor. The morphology of small pulmonary arteries and collagen metabolism were examined. Cultured pulmonary arterial fibroblasts stimulated by transforming growth factor ?1 (TGF??1) were used to explore the mechanism.
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