ARTICLE: Managing Osteoporosis in Patients on Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment: Report of a Task Force of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research AUTHORS: Adler RA, Fuleihan GE, Bauer DC, Camacho PM, Clarke BL, Clines GA, Compston JE, Drake MT, Edwards BJ, Favus MJ, Greenspan SL, McKinney R Jr, Pignolo RJ, Sellmeyer DE JOURNAL: J Bone Miner Res. 2015 Sep 9. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.2708. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract Bisphosphonates […]
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Determinants of Default from Tuberculosis Treatment among Patients with Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis in Karachi, Pakistan: A Mixed Methods Study
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Determinants of Default from Tuberculosis Treatment among Patients with Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis in Karachi, Pakistan: A Mixed Methods Study AUTHORS: Chida N, Ansari Z, Hussain H, Jaswal M, Symes S, Khan AJ, Mohammed S JOURNAL: PLoS One. 2015 Nov 12;10(11):e0142384. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142384. eCollection 2015. Abstract PURPOSE: Non-adherence to tuberculosis therapy can lead to drug resistance, prolonged infectiousness, and death; therefore, understanding what causes treatment default is important. Pakistan has […]
Graduate Medical Education in the Freddie Gray Era
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Predictors of Long-Term Healthy Arterial Aging: Coronary Artery Calcium Nondevelopment in the MESA Study
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Predictors of Long-Term Healthy Arterial Aging: Coronary Artery Calcium Nondevelopment in the MESA Study AUTHORS: Seamus P. Whelton, Michael G. Silverman, John W. McEvoy, Matthew J. Budoff, Ron Blankstein, John Eng, Roger S. Blumenthal, Moyses Szklo, Khurram Nasir and Michael J. Blaha JOURNAL: J Am Coll Cardiol Img. 2015;():. doi:10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.06.019 Abstract OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine […]
Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate
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Frailty, Inflammation and Mortality Among Persons Aging With HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use
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Can Antihypertensive Treatment Restore the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease to Ideal Levels?
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Hyaluronic acid-serum hydrogels rapidly restore metabolism of encapsulated stem cells and promote engraftment
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Genomics: The interloper
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