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Fitness and 10-year risk of mortality among adults ≥70 years old at the extremes of cardiovascular disease risk factor burden: the FIT Project
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Selective Use of Coronary Artery Calcium Testing for Shared Decision Making: Guideline Endorsed and Ready for Prime Time
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Effect of increased dose of total body irradiation on graft failure associated with HLA-haploidentical transplantation in patients with severe haemoglobinopathies: a prospective clinical trial
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One Month of Rifapentine plus Isoniazid to Prevent HIV-Related Tuberculosis
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Patient Safety Outcomes Under Flexible and Standard Resident Duty-Hour Rules
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Human primary liver cancer organoids reveal intratumor and interpatient drug response heterogeneity
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Human primary liver cancer organoids reveal intratumor and interpatient drug response heterogeneity AUTHORS: Ling Li*, Hildur Knutsdottir, Ken Hui*, Matthew J. Weiss, Jin He, Benjamin Philosophe, Andrew M. Cameron, Christopher L. Wolfgang, Timothy M. Pawlik, Gabriel Ghiaur, Andrew J. Ewald, Esteban Mezey, Joel S. Bader and Florin M. Selaru JOURNAL: JCI Insight. 2019 Jan 24;4(2). pii: 121490. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.121490. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract Liver cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality and(...)
Caring for Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions
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Neuronal brain-region-specific DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility are associated with neuropsychiatric trait heritability
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Neuronal brain-region-specific DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility are associated with neuropsychiatric trait heritability AUTHORS: Lindsay F. Rizzardi, Peter F. Hickey, Varenka Rodriguez DiBlasi, Rakel Tryggvadóttir, Colin M. Callahan, Adrian Idrizi, Kasper D. Hansen & Andrew P. Feinberg JOURNAL: Nat Neurosci. 2019 Feb;22(2):307-316. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0297-8. Epub 2019 Jan 14. Abstract Epigenetic modifications confer stable transcriptional patterns in the brain, and both normal and abnormal brain(...)
PKG1-modified TSC2 regulates mTORC1 activity to counter adverse cardiac stress
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: PKG1-modified TSC2 regulates mTORC1 activity to counter adverse cardiac stress AUTHORS: Mark J. Ranek, Kristen M. Kokkonen-Simon, Anna Chen, Brittany L. Dunkerly-Eyring, Miguel Pinilla Vera, Christian U. Oeing, Chirag H. Patel, Taishi Nakamura, Guangshuo Zhu, Djahida Bedja, Masayuki Sasaki, Ronald J. Holewinski, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Jonathan D. Powell, Dong Ik Lee & David A. Kass JOURNAL: Nature. 2019 Jan 30. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-0895-y. [Epub ahead of print] Brief Summary Protein kinase G has long been considered to provide protection against(...)