Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) trials can involve multiple years of follow-up and burdensome procedures for older individuals. Optimizing the design and conduct of these trials requires input from participants and their families. Since 2020, the Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Consortium (ACTC) Research Participant Advisory Board has provided input on study attributes including: participant and study partner compensation, consent language, and result communication tools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 64-year-old man participated in a 13.1-mile half marathon in San Diego, CA on April 23, 2023. The ambient temperature when he started the race was 54°F, which increased to 64°F on his completing the race 3 hours and 58 minutes later.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT-2 inhibitors) falls short of their cardiorenal protective benefits. Patient and provider-level barriers hinder the adoption of these life-saving medications. Innovative practices to provide primary care providers (PCP) with added clinical-decision support via a dedicated remote interdisciplinary diabetes rounds (IDR) team could promote SGLT-2 inhibitor selection.
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December 2024
Specialists in forensic medicine assist in crime scene investigations. The forensic medicine experts include anthropologists, ballistic analysts, entomologists, odontologists, and osteologists. The experts are usually not at the crime scene; they provide an evaluation of evidence that is sent to them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGiven the uniqueness of the mitochondria, and the fact that they have their own genome, mitochondrial-derived microproteins (MDPs) are similar to, but different from, nuclear-encoded microproteins. The discovery of an increasing number of microproteins from this organelle and the importance of mitochondria to cellular and organismal health make it a priority to study this novel class of proteins in search of possible therapeutic targets and cures. In this review, we discuss the history of MDP discovery, describe the function of each MDP, and conclude with future goals and techniques to help discover more MDPs.
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