Publications by authors named "M Hurt"
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- * A new online portal has been developed to provide up-to-date global distribution data for crayfish and their pathogens, improving accessibility and management decisions.
- * This database is publicly available, allowing users to easily view, embed, and download data, aiming to enhance conservation planning and biodiversity management in the future.
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- Women are under-represented in academic cardiology publishing, and implementing double-blind peer reviews is thought to help reduce gender bias in authorship.
- The Journal of Cardiac Failure switched to double-blind reviews in July 2021 and studied changes in author demographics over three time periods from 2021 to 2023.
- The analysis revealed a rise in female first authors from 24% to 39%, indicating that double-blind reviews might enhance gender diversity in authorship, while senior authorship by women remained consistent.
Gestational hypertension, often associated with elevated soluble Fms-related receptor tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt-1), poses significant risks to both maternal and fetal health. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a gasotransmitter, has demonstrated blood pressure-lowering effects in hypertensive animals and humans. However, its role in pregnancy-induced hypertension remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Cognitive impairment (CI) is an underestimated part of disability in persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). The purpose of this evidence-based project was to influence clinicians treating PwMS by education of the current guidelines on cognition and multiple sclerosis and to screen CI with a valid neuropsychological tool.
Methods: Staff were educated on the 2018 National Multiple Sclerosis Society guidelines about CI in PwMS.
Public health recommendations at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic were initially well received by Americans. But when personal, economic, and social impacts were felt, a concerted pushback began. The response to pandemic mitigation measures has become increasingly partisan, exacerbated by an ideological divide fueled by news sources and social media.
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