What happens to empathy in medical education?

Homemade Profiteroles April 20, 2021
Homemade Profiteroles Choux pastry is baked into round puffs and filled with your favorite ice cream in these decadent profiteroles. Topped with an irresistible chocolate sauce, this recipe will take your cream puff to a whole new level. Since mastering a basic pâte à choux, I have enjoyed making eclairs, cream puffs, churros, gougeres, and […]
Brown Eyed Baker by Michelle
Roasted Asparagus with Balsamic Brown Butter April 20, 2021
Roasted Asparagus with Balsamic Brown Butter Sauce is my go-to recipe when this delicious vegetable is in season. A simple sauce of brown butter, soy sauce, and balsamic vinegar is drizzled over perfectly roasted asparagus. This Oven Roasted Asparagus is my favorite way to prepare this spring vegetable. The roasting brings out the natural sweetness of […]
That Skinny Chick Can Bake - Where recipe magic happens...
To All the Abused Kids Who Are Dealing with the Consequences as Adults… April 20, 2021
“The feeling of being rejected, disapproved of, or conditionally loved by one’s primary caregivers is a monumental, long-lasting burden for a child to carry. It produces chronic shame, guilt, and anxiety. The child is blamed for doing something wrong and in doing so learns to perceive themselves as being bad.” ~Darius Cikanavicius, Human Development and Trauma: […]
Tiny Buddha
CROCK POT MEXICAN-STYLE SHREDDED BEEF April 19, 2021
This Crock Pot Mexican-Style Shredded Beef is perfect for taco night! Chuck roast, salsa, taco seasoning and sauce are all that's needed! So tender and flavorful! CROCK POT MEXICAN-STYLE SHREDDED BEEF One of the great things about slow cookers is they allow you to take a fairly tough and fairly inexpensive cut of meat and really... […]
The Country Cook
424 Health disparities in clinical trials for mycosis fungoides/Sézary syndrome: A systematic review April 19, 2021
Despite the growing evidence of health disparities in cancer clinical trials, there is a dearth of similar research in clinical trials for mycosis fungoides (MF)/Sézary syndrome (SS). We sought to determine whether participants in clinical trials for MF/SS would differ demographically, either by age, gender, or race, compared to the United States (US) population of […]
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
365 Adult atopic dermatitis is associated with lymphopenia in two large cohorts April 19, 2021
Laboratory abnormalities in atopic dermatitis (AD) are poorly understood and lymphopenia could occur due to skin homing of lymphocytes. We aimed to determine the extent to which adult AD is associated with lymphopenia in two large population-based cohorts from the UK and US: CPRD and the 2005-06 NHANES. Using logistic regression models adjusted for age, […]
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
429 Spirulina use and its temporal association with dermatomyositis exacerbation April 19, 2021
The immunostimulatory effects of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may lead to the exacerbation of autoimmunity. As a result, there is a need to characterize the temporal association between immunostimulatory CAM use and autoimmune skin diseases. We performed a nested retrospective study of prospectively-collected CAM usage data at UPenn. Patients with dermatomyositis (DM), cutaneous lupus […]
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
397 Dupilumab improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children aged ≥6–<12 years with severe atopic dermatitis (AD) April 19, 2021
Severe AD negatively impacts patients’ and caregivers’ HRQoL in diverse domains such as social functioning, activities, and relationships. The Children’s Dermatology Life Quality Index (CDLQI; range 0–30) is a 10-item questionnaire that assesses patient/caregiver-reported impact of AD on HRQoL. In the multicenter phase 3 LIBERTY AD PEDS trial (NCT03345914), 367 severe AD patients aged ≥6–
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
141 Translation and growth pathways are directly influenced by autoimmune regulator (Aire) in skin keratinocytes April 19, 2021
Autoimmune regulator, Aire, is commonly known to function as a transcriptional regulator in medullary thymic epithelia. However, we and others have identified Aire to express and function in non-thymic tissues, including the skin, where it greatly influences inflammation and tumorigenesis. We report here that, within skin keratinocytes, Aire participates in a variety of cellular processes […]
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
461 A review of cutaneous lymphoma outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic at Columbia University April 19, 2021
New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center were heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Various measures were taken in an effort to ensure patient and staff safety. The management of patients with complex dermatological oncologic conditions, such as cutaneous lymphomas was especially challenging. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of the patients with cutaneous […]
Journal of Investigative Dermatology