Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
ARTICLE: Sofosbuvir and Velpatasvir for HCV Genotype 2 and 3 Infection AUTHORS: Foster GR, Afdhal N, Roberts SK, Bräu N, Gane EJ, Pianko S, Lawitz E, Thompson A, Shiffman ML, Cooper C, Towner WJ, Conway B, Ruane… Read More »Sofosbuvir and Velpatasvir for HCV Genotype 2 and 3 Infection
ARTICLE: 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… Read More »Determinants of Default from Tuberculosis Treatment among Patients with Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis in Karachi, Pakistan: A Mixed Methods Study
ARTICLE: Graduate Medical Education in the Freddie Gray Era AUTHORS: Sammy Zakaria, Erica N. Johnson, Jennifer L. Hayashi and Colleen Christmas JOURNAL: N Engl J… Read More »Graduate Medical Education in the Freddie Gray Era
ARTICLE: 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… Read More »Predictors of Long-Term Healthy Arterial Aging: Coronary Artery Calcium Nondevelopment in the MESA Study
ARTICLE: Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate AUTHORS: Morgan E. Grams, Yingying Sang, Andrew S. Levey, Kunihiro Matsushita, Shoshana Ballew, Alex R. Chang,… Read More »Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate
ARTICLE: Frailty, Inflammation and Mortality Among Persons Aging With HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use AUTHORS: Piggott DA, Varadhan R, Mehta SH, Brown TT, Li H, Walston JD, Leng SX, Kirk… Read More »Frailty, Inflammation and Mortality Among Persons Aging With HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use
ARTICLE: Can Antihypertensive Treatment Restore the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease to Ideal Levels?: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study and the… Read More »Can Antihypertensive Treatment Restore the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease to Ideal Levels?
ARTICLE: Hyaluronic acid-serum hydrogels rapidly restore metabolism of encapsulated stem cells and promote engraftment AUTHORS: Chan AT, Karakas MF, Vakrou S, Afzal J, Rittenbach A, Lin X, Wahl RL, Pomper MG, Steenbergen CJ, Tsui… Read More »Hyaluronic acid-serum hydrogels rapidly restore metabolism of encapsulated stem cells and promote engraftment
ARTICLE: Genomics: The interloper AUTHORS: M. Teresa Villanueva JOURNAL: Nat Rev Genet. 2015 Sep 18;16(10):564-5. doi: 10.1038/nrg4009 Article The retrotransposon long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1) is a… Read More »Genomics: The interloper
ARTICLE: Economic and Epidemiological Impact of Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in India AUTHORS: Manoj V Maddali, David W Dowdy, Amita Gupta, Maunank Shah JOURNAL: J… Read More »Economic and Epidemiological Impact of Early Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in India