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  • The Medical Library as a Component of a Medical School Pipeline Program 

    Schellinger, Jana; Cable, Kathy; Bond, Milton; Campbell, Kendall M. (2019-10-05)
    The US is facing a shortage of physicians for minorities and patients in disadvantaged areas. Many medical schools have pipeline programs to promote the interest of minority students in medicine. The Brody School of Medicine ...

  • Medication Deprescribing at End of Life in the Long-Term Care Population 

    Isaacs, Theresa (2020-07-26)
    Polypharmacy, generally defined as taking five or more medications, is the leading cause of adverse drug events for older patients and affects as many as 95% of patients residing in long-term care. Nearly half of all ...

  • MEDLINE via PubMed Search Strategy for Cox et al., A systematic review of high-risk environmental circumstances for adolescent drinking 

    Sewell, Kerry (2018-09-26)
    This is the MEDLINE via PubMed search strategy used to identify articles for a systematic review examining the environmental context of high-risk adolescent alcohol consumption. The search strategy was mapped across other ...

  • Melting Away: Sifting through the Special Snowflakes 

    Inman, Megan; Barber, Marlena (2018-11-07)
    Medical practice books tend to become quickly outdated as clinical practice changes with ever-evolving research. For the past few years, Laupus Health Sciences Library has been ordering eBooks in addition to ordering books ...

  • Mental Health Professionals' Attitudes toward Clients with Antisocial Personality Disorder 

    Dunbar, Edward T., Jr. (East Carolina University, 2017-04-19)
    Clients with personality disorder are treated throughout the United States' healthcare system. Research suggests that mental health professionals' attitudes' toward clients with personality disorders are poor. However, ...

  • Metformin Improves Insulin Signaling in Obese Rats via Reduced IKK Action in a Fiber-Type Specific Manner 

    Bikman, Benjamin Thomas; Zheng, Donghai; Kane, Daniel A.; Anderson, Ethan; Woodlief, Tracey L.; Price, Jesse W.; Dohm, G. Lynis; Neufer, P. Darrell; Cortright, Ronald N. (2010)
    Metformin is a widely used insulin-sensitizing drug, though its mechanisms are not fully understood. Metformin has been shown to activate AMPK in skeletal muscle; however, its effects on the inhibitor of κB kinaseβ (IKKβ) ...

  • Method and apparatus for treating renal disease with hemodialysis utilizing pulsatile pump 

    Bolin, Paul Jr. (2002-08-22)
    A method of removing toxins from blood from a patient in need of such toxin removal includes: providing a countercurrent dialysis filter (20) having a blood compartment and a dialysate compartment separated from the blood ...

  • Method for nerve growth induction 

    Da Vanzo, John Paul; Paul, Joseph W. (1993-03-16)
    A composition comprising nerve growth factor and 2-amino-1,1,3-tricyano-1-propene useful for the induction, stimulation, and maintenance of nerve growth, and methods of potentiating choline O-acetyltransferase and tyrosine ...

  • Method for nerve growth induction 

    DeVanzo, John; Paul, Joseph W. (1993-03-16)
    A composition comprising nerve growth factor and 2-amino-1,1,3-tricyano-1-propene useful for the induction, stimulation, and maintenance of nerve growth, and methods of potentiating choline O-acetyltransferase and tyrosine ...

  • Method for reducing adenosine levels with a dehydroepiandrosterone and optionally a ubiquinone 

    Nyce, Jonathan W. (2000-07-11)
    A method and composition for reducing adenosine levels comprises administering a dehydroepiandrosterone, and optionally a ubiquinone.

  • Method for the microbial decontamination of blood platelets 

    Read, Marjorie S.; Bode, Arthur P.; Summarial, Louis J. (1999-04-06)
    A method for inactivating microbiological contaminants in a human blood platelet preparation is disclosed. The method comprises, first, providing blood platelets, particularly human blood platelets, suspected of being ...

  • Method for the synthesis of 3-substituted indolizine and benzoindolizine compounds 

    Hayford, Anthony; Kaloko, Joseph (2006-07-13)
    A method of making a compound of Formula (I) comprises reacting a compound of Formula (II) with a compound such as R1OH or R1SH, to produce said compound of Formula (I). Compounds of Formula (I) are useful, among other ...

  • Method of detecting cancer using delta-catenin 

    Lu, Qun; Chen, Yan-Hua (2008-11-04)
    The present invention provides a method for detecting or screening for the presence of cancer in a subject. The method comprises obtaining, providing or collecting a tissue or fluid sample (such as a urine sample) from ...

  • Method of inhibiting carcinogenesis by treatment with dehydroepiandrosterone and analogs thereof 

    Nyce, Jonathan W. (1996-06-18)
    A method of combatting cancer in a subject comprising administering to said subject dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) or an analog thereof in an amount effective to combat cancer is disclosed in which heart failure induced by ...

  • Method of treating adenosine depletion 

    Nyce, Jonathan W. (1997-08-26)
    A method of treating adenosine depletion in a subject in need of such treatment is disclosed. The method comprises administering to the subject folinic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an amount effective ...

  • Method of treating asthma 

    Fisher, Robert H.; Metzger, James; Henriksen, Ruth A. (1996-09-10)
    A method of treating asthma in a subject in need of such treatment comprises contacting Asthma Reversal Factor to the respiratory epithelium of the subject. The active agent is preferably contacted to the subject's respiratory ...

  • Method of treating asthma using IL-8 

    Fisher, Robert H.; Metzger, James (1994-03-01)
    A method of treating asthma in a subject in need of such treatment comprises contacting Interleukin-8 or an active fragment thereof to the respiratory epithelium of the subject. The active agent is preferably human endothelial ...

  • Method of treating disorders characterized by overexpression of cytidine deaminase or deoxycytidine deaminase 

    Nyce, Jonathan W. (2002-08-13)
    A composition, device, kit and method for countering or diagnosing cytidine deaminase or deoxycytidine deaminase over-expression or a disorder associated with it, or an increase in number or toxicity of pro-inflammatory ...

  • Method of treatment using chemotherapy and erythropoietin 

    Anagnostou, Athanasius A.; Sigounas, George (1999-07-13)
    The use of human erythropoietin (EPO) to prevent or treat endothelial injury due to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, mechanical trauma, or to a disease state which damages the endothelium (such as inflammation, heart disease ...

  • Methods and Compositions for Poxvirus A35R Protein 

    Roper, Rachel (2012-11-22)
    The present invention provides methods and compositions for modulating an immune response in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an A35R protein or active fragment thereof of vaccinia ...