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ARTICLE: Venezuela's public health crisis: a regional emergency AUTHORS: Kathleen R Page, Shannon Doocy, Feliciano Reyna, Ganteaume B Arch, Julio S Castro, Paul Spiegel, Chris… Read More »Venezuela’s public health crisis: a regional emergency

ARTICLE: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Older Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock AUTHORS: Abdulla Damluji, KarenBandeen-Roche, Carol Berkower, Cynthia Boyd, Mohammed S. Al-Damluji, Mauricio G.Cohen, Daniel E.Forman, Rahul Chaudhary, Gary Gerstenblith, Jeremy Walston, Jon Resar, Mauro Moscucci JOURNAL: J… Read More »Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Older Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock

ARTICLE: The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight AUTHORS: Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman, Manjula Darshi, Stefan J. Green, Ruben C. Gur,… Read More »The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight

ARTICLE: Association of immunosuppression and HIV viraemia with non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk overall and by subtype in people living with HIV in Canada and the USA:… Read More »Association of immunosuppression and HIV viraemia with non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk overall and by subtype in people living with HIV in Canada and the USA: a multicentre cohort study

ARTICLE: Time to Study Metastatic-Cancer Survivorship AUTHORS: Terry Langbaum and Thomas J. Smith JOURNAL: N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 4;380(14):1300-1302. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1901103. One of us,… Read More »Time to Study Metastatic-Cancer Survivorship

The iCOMPARE trial, for which Sanjay Desai is a lead investigator, examined outcomes from trainees with different duty hour standards. The trial was funded by… Read More »Assessment of Inpatient Time Allocation Among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Using Time-Motion Observations

ARTICLE: A Genetic Risk Score Associated with COPD Susceptibility and Lung Structure on Computed Tomography AUTHORS: Elizabeth C Oelsner, Victor E Ortega, Benjamin M. Smith, Jennifer N. Nguyen, Ani… Read More »A Genetic Risk Score Associated with COPD Susceptibility and Lung Structure on Computed Tomography

ARTICLE: Fitness and 10-year risk of mortality among adults ≥70 years old at the extremes of cardiovascular disease risk factor burden: the FIT Project AUTHORS:… Read More »Fitness and 10-year risk of mortality among adults ≥70 years old at the extremes of cardiovascular disease risk factor burden: the FIT Project

ARTICLE: Selective Use of Coronary Artery Calcium Testing for Shared Decision Making: Guideline Endorsed and Ready for Prime Time AUTHORS: Rhanderson Cardoso, Khurram Nasir, Roger… Read More »Selective Use of Coronary Artery Calcium Testing for Shared Decision Making: Guideline Endorsed and Ready for Prime Time

ARTICLE: 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… Read More »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