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Imaging for Mitral Interventions: Methods and Efficacy.

A plain language summary of the ASCENT study: Sacituzumab Govitecan for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals.

Kidney function and aortic valve and mitral annular calcification in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

Optimising sexually transmitted infection screening in correctional facilities: San Francisco, 2003-2005.

Hepatitis C Virus Reinfection Among People Who Inject Drugs: Long-Term Follow-Up of the HERO Study.

Introducing the inaugural issue of Health Affairs Scholar: Emerging and Global Health Policy (HAS).

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James Deardorff and Team Publish Article on Predicting Nursing Home Level of Care for Older Adults with Dementia in JAMA Internal Medicine

Drs. James Deardorff, Sun Jeon, Deb Barnes, John Boscardin, Ken Covinsky, Sei Lee, and Alex Smith published an article entitled "Development and External Validation of Models to Predict Need for Nursing Home Level of Care in Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Dementia" in JAMA Internal Medicine along with other co-authors Drs. Ken Langa and Susan Mitchell.

Resident training in microbiology.

Racial composition of residential areas associates with access to pre-ESRD nephrology care.

How to develop a competency-based examination blueprint for longitudinal standardized patient clinical skills assessments.

The insulin and islet amyloid polypeptide genes contain similar cell-specific promoter elements that bind identical beta-cell nuclear complexes.

TGFß2 and TGFß3 isoforms drive fibrotic disease pathogenesis.

Personalizing Therapy for Metastatic Prostate Cancer: The Role of Solid and Liquid Tumor Biopsies.

The conserved Cockayne syndrome B-piggyBac fusion protein (CSB-PGBD3) affects DNA repair and induces both interferon-like and innate antiviral responses in CSB-null cells.