Effects of Intensive Glucose Lowering in Type 2 Diabetes
As compared with standard therapy, the use of intensive therapy to target normal glycated hemoglobin levels for 3.5 years increased mortality and did not significantly reduce ma...
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The Attention System of the Human Brain
The brain's default mode network consists of discrete, bilateral and symmetrical cortical areas, in the medial and lateral parietal, medial prefrontal, and medial and lateral te...
A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice
Organized anarchies are organizations characterized by problematic preferences, unclear technology, and fluid participation. Recent studies of universities, a familiar form of o...
How mitochondria produce reactive oxygen species
The production of ROS (reactive oxygen species) by mammalian mitochondria is important because it underlies oxidative damage in many pathologies and contributes to retrograde re...
Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora
The human endogenous intestinal microflora is an essential “organ” in providing nourishment, regulating epithelial development, and instructing innate immunity; yet, surprisingl...
Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it, is a...
Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality from Cancer in a Prospectively Studied Cohort of U.S. Adults
Increased body weight was associated with increased death rates for all cancers combined and for cancers at multiple specific sites.
Generic Assignments, Strain Histories and Properties of Pure Cultures of Cyanobacteria
Summary: On the basis of a comparative study of 178 strains of cyanobacteria, representative of this group of prokaryotes, revised definitions of many genera are proposed. Revis...
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
In this work the distinguished physical chemist and philosopher, Michael Polanyi, demonstrates that the scientist's personal participation in his knowledge, in both its discover...