The annual number of US hospital discharges at risk for venous thromboembolism and the impact of evolving American College of…
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Mass Screening for Atrial Fibrillation: The Hype, The Methods, The Application
Recently, Apple launched new heart-related features for their Apple Watch, with notable excitement in the press, including an FDA-cleared app…
Giant cell arteritis presenting with a tongue lesion—diagnostic dilemma
An 83-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a two-month long history of progressive weight loss, weakness and recent odynophagia.…
Mass Screening for Atrial Fibrillation: The Hype, The Methods, and The Application
Recently, Apple launched new heart-related features for their Apple Watch, including an app cleared by the US Food and Drug…
Vaccine-preventable infections in pediatric transplant patients
Children who receive solid organ transplants are hospitalized due to vaccine-preventable infections at rates that are significantly higher than the…
Scientists make strides in creation of clinical-grade bone
A team of scientists has made valuable progress toward creating clinical-grade cells for treatment of bone disease and injury. In…
Potential therapeutic target for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
New research has revealed that the protein TDP-43 regulates a gene called Stathmin2 (STMN2). STMN2 shows promise as a therapeutic…
Assessing the performance of multiple influenza forecasting models
In what the authors believe is the first documented comparison of several real-time infectious disease forecasting models by different teams…
A new way by which the human brain marks time
With a little help from HBO’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ neurobiologists have uncovered a key component of how the human brain…
Pioneering surgery restores movement to children paralyzed by acute flaccid myelitis
An innovative and complex surgery involving nerve transfers is restoring movement to young patients with paralysis caused by acute flaccid…