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Read about how the Department of Medicine is responding to the outbreak of the coronavirus respiratory illness COVID-19. See related COVID-19 publications.

Persistence of primary drug resistance among recently HIV-1 infected adults.

Prospects for an AIDS vaccine: encourage innate immunity.

Economic analyses to inform public health decision-making for tuberculosis: the role of understanding implementation.

Objective Identification of Cannabis Use Levels in Clinical Populations Is Critical for Detecting Pharmacological Outcomes.

Comparison of vascular access outcomes in patients with end-stage renal disease attributed to systemic lupus erythematosus vs. other causes: a retrospective cohort study.

Identification of Genomic Biomarkers of Disease Progression and Survival in Primary CNS Lymphoma.

Injecting a TB vaccine into the blood, not the skin, boosts its effectiveness

Dr. Joel Ernst, Chief of Experimental Medicine, notes the "most “astonishing” is that six of the 10 monkeys who received the IV vaccine never even developed an initial infection when exposed to TB." Click here for the full story.

Ernst headshot

A randomized controlled trial of chair interventions on back and hip pain among sewing machine operators: the los angeles garment study.

Detection, Diagnosis, and Resection of Sessile Serrated Adenomas and Polyps.

The association of smoking and alcohol use with age-related macular degeneration in the oldest old: the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures.

A Point-based Histologic Scoring System for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Can Stratify Risk of Posttransplant Tumor Recurrence.

Fatigue in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Living in North America: Results from the Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN).

Cardiac function assessed by myocardial deformation in adult polycystic kidney disease patients.

Disparities in Telemedicine Use for Subspecialty Diabetes Care During COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place Orders.

Lower leukemia burden maximizes the impact of blinatumomab therapy.