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ARTICLE: Effects of Nutritional Supplements and Dietary Interventions on Cardiovascular Outcomes: An Umbrella Review and Evidence Map AUTHORS: Safi U. Khan, Muhammad U. Khan, Haris… Read More »Effects of Nutritional Supplements and Dietary Interventions on Cardiovascular Outcomes: An Umbrella Review and Evidence Map

ARTICLE: Coronary Artery Calcium Scores of Zero and Establishing the Concept of Negative Risk Factors AUTHORS: Michael J. Blaha, Ron Blankstein and Khurram Nasir JOURNAL: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019… Read More »Coronary Artery Calcium Scores of Zero and Establishing the Concept of Negative Risk Factors

ARTICLE: Nanoparticle diffusion in spontaneously expectorated sputum as a biophysical tool to probedisease severity in COPD AUTHORS: Jane F. Chisholm, Siddharth K. Shenoy, Julie K. Shade, Victor Kim, Nirupama Putcha, Kathryn A. Carson, Robert Wise, Nadia Hansel, Justin S. Hanes, Jung Soo Suk, Enid Neptune JOURNAL: Eur Respir J. 2019 Jun 4.… Read More »Nanoparticle diffusion in spontaneously expectorated sputum as a biophysical tool to probedisease severity in COPD

ARTICLE: Self-medication as Part of Self-management Plans for Patients with COPD - Reply AUTHORS: Hanan Aboumatar and Robert Wise JOURNAL: JAMA. 2019 May 21;321(19):1937. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.2076.… Read More »Self-medication as Part of Self-management Plans for Patients with COPD – Reply

ARTICLE: A Public BCR Present in a Unique Dual-Receptor-Expressing Lymphocyte from Type 1 Diabetes Patients Encodes a Potent T Cell Autoantigen AUTHORS: Rizwan Ahmed, Zahra Omidian, Adebola Giwa, Benjamin… Read More »A Public BCR Present in a Unique Dual-Receptor-Expressing Lymphocyte from Type 1 DiabetesPatients Encodes a Potent T Cell Autoantigen

ARTICLE: Global Elimination of Chronic Hepatitis AUTHOR: David L. Thomas JOURNAL: N Engl J Med. 2019 May 23;380(21):2041-2050. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1810477. Major advances have been made in the… Read More »Global Elimination of Chronic Hepatitis

ARTICLE: Urine TNF-α and IL-9 for clinical diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis AUTHORS: Dennis G. Moledina, F. Perry Wilson, Jordan S. Pober, Mark A. Perazella, Nikhil Singh, Randy L. Luciano, Wassim Obeid, Haiqun Lin, Michael… Read More »Urine TNF-α and IL-9 for clinical diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis

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