6 results match your criteria: "Department of Medicine University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Worcester Massachusetts USA.[Affiliation]"
Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by complex underlying neuropathology that is not fully understood. This study aimed to identify cognitive progression subtypes and examine their correlation with clinical outcomes.
Methods: Participants of this study were recruited from the Framingham Heart Study.
Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences.
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January 2024
Interdisciplinary Bank of Biomaterials and Data Würzburg (ibdw) Würzburg Germany.
Article Synopsis
- The importance of openly sharing and reusing specimens and data in life sciences research is highlighted, as it directly affects the quality of findings and knowledge.
- Accurate documentation of pre-analytical conditions, analytical procedures, and data processing is crucial to validate research results, but current information on sample and data provenance is often inadequate.
- The publication discusses a standardization effort aimed at creating reliable machine-actionable documentation for data lineage and specimens, inviting experts from biotechnology and biomedical fields to contribute to this initiative.
Objectives: Pandemic disruptions to interviews and away rotations led applicants to rely on alternative sources of information about residency programs. We sought to compare program characteristics important to emergency medicine (EM)-bound applicants from before and after the pandemic. We also investigated the sources of information pandemic impacted applicants used during residency recruitment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFactors associated with inpatient complications among patients with obesity and COVID-19 at an urban safety-net hospital: A retrospective cohort study.
Obes Sci Pract
August 2022
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Boston Medical Center Boston Massachusetts USA.
Objective: Obesity increases morbidity and mortality from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study characterized inpatient complications among patients with obesity and COVID-19-including myocardial infarction, renal failure requiring dialysis, stroke, secondary bacterial infection, and venous thromboembolism-and identified factors associated with developing at least one inpatient complication at a safety-net hospital with a diverse cohort.
Methods: A retrospective review was performed of all patients admitted for ≥3 days with COVID-19 between 16 March 2020, and 8 April 2020.
Previously viewed as a culture contaminant, can cause infection following neurosurgical intervention. Its role in brain abscess in the immunocompetent, surgically naïve population has been infrequently reported. Herein, we describe an immunocompetent 55-year-old man with no risk factors found to have a thalamic abscess with intraventricular rupture.
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