Social Media and the Practicing Hematologist: Twitter 101 for the Busy Healthcare Provider.

Social media is a relatively new form of media that includes social networks for communication dissemination and interaction. Patients, physicians, and other users are active on social media including the microblogging platform Twitter. Many online resources are available to facilitate joining and adding to online conversations.

Midlife Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Stroke in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.

Background And Purpose: Alcohol consumption is common in the United States and may confer beneficial cardiovascular effects at light-to-moderate doses. The alcohol-stroke relationship remains debated. We estimated the relationship between midlife, self-reported alcohol consumption and ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in a biracial cohort.

Risk behaviours among female sex workers in China: a systematic review and data synthesis.

Background: Commercial sex is one of the major modes of HIV transmission in China. Understanding HIV risk behaviours in female sex workers (FSW) is of great importance for prevention. This study aims to assess the magnitude and temporal changes of risk behaviours in Chinese FSW.

Characterization of NLRP12 during the in vivo host immune response to Klebsiella pneumoniae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The majority of nucleotide binding domain leucine rich repeats-containing (NLR) family members has yet to be functionally characterized. Of the described NLRs, most are considered to be proinflammatory and facilitate IL-1β production. However, a newly defined sub-group of NLRs that function as negative regulators of inflammation have been identified based on their abilities to attenuate NF-κB signaling.

Who teaches basic procedural skills: student experience versus faculty opinion.

Introduction: Learning procedural skills as a medical student has evolved, as task trainers and simulators are now ubiquitous. It is yet unclear whether they have supplanted bedside teaching or are adjuncts to it, and whether faculty or residents are responsible for student skills education in this era. In this study we sought to characterize the experience and opinions of both medical students and faculty on procedural skills training.

HIV interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma: a systematic review.

We reviewed the literature to determine the effectiveness of HIV-related interventions in reducing HIV/AIDS stigma. Studies selected had randomized controlled trial (RCT), pretest-posttest with a non-randomized control group, or pretest-posttest one group study designs in which HIV-related interventions were being evaluated, and in which HIV/AIDS stigma was one of the outcomes being measured. A checklist was used to extract data from accepted studies, assess their internal validity, and overall quality.