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January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
What would happen if discussions about organ donation took place at the doctor’s office rather than at the Department of Motor Vehicles or in the intensive care unit? Daryl Thornton, M.D., M.P.H., an intensivist, an assistant professor of medicine a ...
December 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Previous studies reported a higher incidence of in-hospital mortality for black patients who had pulmonary embolism than for white patients. This study used a large statewide database to compare 30-day mortality (defined as death within 30 days from ...
May 1, 2004 | Journal Article
This study examined the effect of demographic and socioeconomic factors on use of preventive services (prostate-specific antigen testing, colorectal cancer screening, and influenza vaccination) among elderly men enrolled in two Medicare+Choice healt ...
May 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Black men with prostate cancer have poorer disease-specific and overall survival rates than do their U.S. White counterparts. Comorbidity at the time of diagnosis has been shown to predict both overall survival and cause-specific mortality among Whi ...
January 10, 2007 | Journal Article
Use of a blood test for NT-proBNP level may help physicians identify patients at high risk for coronary heart disease.
September 30, 2008 | Story
To support his dream of a career in both clinical medicine and academic research, Araujo then turned to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, which accepted him as a 2004–2008 scholar.
September 30, 2008 | Story
"I've always been a very curious person-sometimes to my parents' chagrin because I would take things apart and not be able to put them back together," Roberts recalls.
October 1, 2005 | Story
In 2001, Crook was assistant professor both of medicine in the nephrology division and in physiology and biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
October 1, 2005 | Story
Escalante has authored dozens of articles in such peer-reviewed journals as Arthritis and Rheumatism, the Journal of Rheumatology, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and the American Journal of Medicine.
October 1, 2005 | Story
At Berkeley, Riley teaches two courses he developed called Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and Current Topics in Vaccinology.