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ARTICLE: Health equity and distributive justice considerations in critical care resource allocation AUTHORS: Panagis Galiatsatos, Allen Kachalia, Harolyn M E Belcher, Mark T Hughes, Jeffrey Kahn, Cynda H Rushton,… Read More »Health equity and distributive justice considerations in critical care resource allocation

ARTICLE: Empirical Antituberculosis Therapy in Advanced HIV Disease - Too Much, Too Late AUTHORS: Richard E Chaisson JOURNAL: N Engl J Med. 2020 Jun 18;382(25):2459-2460.… Read More »Empirical Antituberculosis Therapy in Advanced HIV Disease – Too Much, Too Late

ARTICLE: Association of Normal Systolic Blood Pressure Level With Cardiovascular Disease in the Absence of Risk Factors AUTHORS: Seamus P. Whelton, John W. McEvoy, Leslee… Read More »Association of Normal Systolic Blood Pressure Level With Cardiovascular Disease in the Absence of Risk Factors

ARTICLE: Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward AUTHORS: Lakshmi Krishnan, S Michelle Ogunwole, Lisa A… Read More »Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward

ARTICLE: Frailty Measurement Using Administrative Data in Older Patients With Cardiovascular Disease AUTHORS: Abdulla A Damluji, Gary Gerstenblithand Jodi B Segal JOURNAL: JAMA Cardiol. 2020 May 20. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2020.1552. Online… Read More »Frailty Measurement Using Administrative Data in Older Patients With Cardiovascular Disease

ARTICLE: Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance AUTHORS: Brendan A McGrath, Michael J Brenner, Stephen J Warrillow, Vinciya Pandian, Asit Arora, Tanis… Read More »Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance

ARTICLE: To What Extent Are the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2019 MIPS Quality Measures Inclusive of Home-Based Medical Care? AUTHORS: Bruce Leff, Orla… Read More »To What Extent Are the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2019 MIPS Quality Measures Inclusive of Home-Based Medical Care?

ARTICLE: Improving Cardiovascular Workforce Competencies in Cardio-Obstetrics: Current Challenges and Future Directions AUTHORS: Garima Sharma, Sammy Zakaria, Erin D Michos, Ami B Bhatt, Gina P Lundberg, Karen L Florio, Arthur Jason… Read More »Improving Cardiovascular Workforce Competencies in Cardio-Obstetrics: Current Challenges and Future Directions

ARTICLE: PKG1α Cysteine-42 Redox State Controls mTORC1 Activation in Pathological Cardiac Hypertrophy AUTHORS: Christian U Oeing, Taishi Nakamura, Shi Pan, Sumita Mishra, Brittany Dunkerly-Eyring, Kristen… Read More »PKG1α Cysteine-42 Redox State Controls mTORC1 Activation in Pathological Cardiac Hypertrophy

ARTICLE: A Role for Actin Flexibility in Thin Filament-Mediated Contractile Regulation and Myopathy AUTHORS: Meera C Viswanathan, William Schmidt, Peter Franz, Michael J Rynkiewicz, Christopher S Newhard, Aditi Madan, William Lehman, Douglas… Read More »A Role for Actin Flexibility in Thin Filament-Mediated Contractile Regulation and Myopathy