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The heart healthy lenoir project-an intervention to reduce disparities in hypertension control: Study protocol
(2013-10-25)
Background
Racial disparities in blood pressure control are well established; however the impact of low health literacy (LHL) on blood pressure has garnered less attention. Office based interventions that are created with ...
Tolerogenic vaccines for multiple sclerosis
(2013-01-28)
Tolerogenic vaccines represent a new class of vaccine designed to re-establish immunological tolerance, restore immune homeostasis, and thereby reverse autoimmune disease. Tolerogenic vaccines induce long-term, antigen-specific, ...
The errors of individualistic public health interventions: Denial of treatment to obese persons: Comment on “Denial of treatment to obese patients—the wrong policy on personal responsibility for health”
(2013-09-28)
I agree entirely with Nir Eyal’s perspective that denying treatment to obese patients is morally wrong. However, the reasons for this belief differ in some ways from Eyal’s analysis. In this commentary, I will try to explain ...
Chlorpromazine reduces avoidance performance deficit in rats with dorsomedial thalamic lesions
(2013-11-08)
Rats with bilateral lesions of the dorsomedial area of the thalamus were shown to have a significant performance deficit on the acquisition of a one-way active shock-avoidance task relative to sham-operated controls. ...