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Tweeting the Meeting: An In-Depth Analysis of Twitter Activity at Kidney Week 2011
(2012)
In recent years, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has increased its efforts to use its annual conference to inform and educate the public about kidney disease. Social media, including Twitter, has been one method ...
Is Content Really King? An Objective Analysis of the Public's Response to Medical Videos on YouTube
(2013)
Medical educators and patients are turning to YouTube to teach and learn about medical conditions. These videos are from authors whose credibility cannot be verified & are not peer reviewed. As a result, studies that have ...
Factors that contribute to social media influence within an Internal Medicine Twitter learning community
(2014-05)
Medical societies, faculty, and trainees use Twitter to learn from and educate other social media users. These social media communities bring together individuals with various levels of experience. It is not known if ...
Introducing the global medical community to the information presented at local scientific conferences through nephrology blogs
(2012-12)
An increasing number of healthcare providers author medical blogs (bloggers) to educate the public and fellow physicians. Traditionally, many bloggers have assumed that readers are most interested in information presented ...
Extended shelf life platelet preparations and process for preparing the same
(1991-02-19)
A first aspect of the present invention is a blood platelet preparation comprising blood platelets, an adenylate cyclase stimulator, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, a thrombin inhibitor, and a plasmin inhibitor. A second ...
Increased Systemic Th17 Cytokines Are Associated with Diastolic Dysfunction in Children and Adolescents with Diabetic Ketoacidosis
(2013)
Diastolic dysfunction suggestive of diabetic cardiomyopathy is established in children with T1DM, but its pathogenesis is not well understood. We studied the relationships of systemic inflammatory cytokines/chemokines and ...
Subcellular fractionation method to study endosomal trafficking of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
(2016-01-15)
Background:
Virus entry involves multiple steps and is a highly orchestrated process on which successful infection collectively depends. Entry processes are commonly analyzed by monitoring internalized virus particles ...
PREDICTING VELOPHARYNGEAL CLOSURE PATTERNS BASED ON ANATOMIC VARIABLES
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-14)
Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of velopharyngeal (VP) variables and sex among adults with normal velopharyngeal anatomy to determine if these variables could correspond with VP closure ...