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ARTICLE: Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease among Older Kidney Transplant Recipients AUTHORS: Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco, Sunjae Bae, Nadia Chu, Alden L. Gross, Charles H. Brown IV, Esther Oh, Paul Rosenberg, Karin J. Neufeld, Ravi… Read More »Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease among Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
ARTICLE: Stop Randomizing All Cardiac Arrests AUTHORS: Myron L. Weisfeldt JOURNAL: Circulation. 2016 Dec 20;134(25):2035-2036. The field of resuscitation science is characterized nearly uniformly by failed… Read More »Stop Randomizing All Cardiac Arrests
ARTICLE: Navigating Ethical Tensions in High-Value Care Education AUTHORS: Matthew DeCamp and Kevin R. Riggs JOURNAL: JAMA. 2016 Dec 6;316(21):2189-2190. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.17488. Enthusiasm for high-value care is increasing throughout health… Read More »Navigating Ethical Tensions in High-Value Care Education
ARTICLE: Coronary Artery Calcium to Guide a Personalized Risk-Based Approach to Initiation and Intensification of Antihypertensive Therapy AUTHORS: John W. McEvoy, Seth S. Martin, Zeina A. Dardari, Michael D. Miedema, Veit Sandfort, Joseph Yeboah, Matthew J. Budoff, David C. Goff,Bruce M. Psaty, Wendy S. Post, Khurram Nasir, Roger S. Blumenthal, Michael… Read More »Coronary Artery Calcium to Guide a Personalized Risk-Based Approach to Initiation and Intensification of Antihypertensive Therapy
ARTICLE: Discovery and Validation of Agonistic Angiotensin Receptor Autoantibodies as Biomarkers of Adverse Outcomes AUTHORS: Peter Abadir, Alka Jain, Laura Powell, Qian-Li Xue, Jing Tian, Robert G. Hamilton, David Bennett, Thomas Finucane, Jeremy… Read More »Discovery and Validation of Agonistic Angiotensin Receptor Autoantibodies as Biomarkers of Adverse Outcomes
T cells are an important arm of the immune system that controls infections and tumor growth. When T cells fail, viruses and tumors persist and… Read More »TGFβ1-Mediated SMAD3 Enhances PD-1 Expression on Antigen-Specific T Cells in Cancer
ARTICLE: Genomic analyses identify recurrent MEF2D fusions in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia AUTHORS: Zhaohui Gu, Michelle Churchman, Kathryn Roberts, Yongjin Li, Yu Liu, Richard C. Harvey, Kelly McCastlain, Shalini C. Reshmi, Debbie Payne-Turner, Ilaria Iacobucci, Ying… Read More »Genomic analyses identify recurrent MEF2D fusions in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
ARTICLE: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and risk of breast cancer. AUTHORS: Shari D Bolen and Nisa M Maruthur JOURNAL: BMJ. 2016 Oct 20;355:i5519. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i5519. Although… Read More »Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and risk of breast cancer
ARTICLE: The HCV care continuum does not end with cure: A call to arms for the prevention of reinfection AUTHORS: Oluwaseun Falade-Nwulia and Mark Sulkowski JOURNAL: J Hepatol. 2016… Read More »The HCV care continuum does not end with cure: A call to arms for the prevention of reinfection
ARTICLE: Genome-Wide Association Studies in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Will We Catch a Black Cat in a Dark Room? AUTHORS: Luu V. Pham and Vsevolod Y.… Read More »Genome-Wide Association Studies in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Will We Catch a Black Cat in a Dark Room?