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Project Summary Today s clinical learning environments do not provide the level of deliberate practicedirect supervisionand rigorous assessment and feedback needed to develop diagnostic reasoning expertiseClinical performance assessment emphasizes learner evaluation over learner developmentlacks rigor and utility for developmental purposesand clinical teachers have expressed particular difficulty ...

ABSTRACT Suicide is one of the top ten causes of death in the US and suicide rates have increased steadily over the last twenty years. Currently, the most effective treatment options are cognitive behavioral therapies for suicide prevention (CBT-SP), which have been shown to reduce both suicide attempt (SA) risk and suicide ideation (SI). However, access to these treatments is limited because ther ...

Radical prostatectomy (RP) is a commonly used treatment option for localized prostate cancer, which carries a high risk for development of erectile dysfunction (ED) because of cavernous nerve (CN) injury. Even newer, nerve-sparing, robotic procedures do not convincingly improve erectile function (EF) outcomes after RP. In addition, ED resulting from RP is often refractory to treatment by orally ad ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantFast TrackInsulin remains the primaryand often the onlytreatment for typediabetes mellitusT DHowever it is associated with chronic iatrogenic hyperinsulinemiasecondary hyperlipidemiahigher incidence and severity of cardiovascular complicationsand life threatening hypoglycemia eventsA higher mortalityvsdue to cardiovascular complications were reported in insulin trea ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Approximately 4% of people in the US are either deaf or hard of hearing, equating to more than 13 million people. Of these, approximately 12 million people over the age of 5 years have difficulty hearing normal conversation even when using a hearing aid. Hearing difficulties affect all age groups and present significant challenges in daily life. These challenges are particularly ac ...

Project SummaryAbstract Our long term goal is to revolutionize the effectiveness of CT imaging for millions of Americans across a broad range of abdominal diseaseDual energy CTDECTprovides powerful clinical diagnostic potential but remains heavily underutilized despite wide scanner availabilityDECT allows materials to be differentiated based on their relative X ray attenuation at low versus high e ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantNeuron cell culture is widely used for studies in basic researchdrug discoveryand toxicity testingTraditional neuron cell culture approaches result in random growth of processes which prevent the study of their unique polarized morphologyOur goal is to provide robustuser friendlyand cost effective culture platforms to manipulate and access neurons and their subcellu ...

“Code blue” is the signal used in hospitals to call for an immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) following a cardiac or respiratory arrest. Reviewing the performance of the “code blue team” is a cornerstone for improving outcomes. The current standard of using handwritten records on a paper “code sheet” does not allow measurement of key quality indicators and is subject to huma ...

ABSTRACT Dental implants are a central part of modern dental practice with the overall market for replacement and reconstruction of teeth expected to reach over $billion in the next several yearsIt is estimated that overmillion people in the United States are missing all of the teeth in one or both of their jaws leading to lower quality of lifeMost of these implants will be successful for long ter ...

ABSTRACT Traditional mon therapeutictarget driven approaches to drug development for Alzheimer s diseaseADare becoming increasingly expensive and in many cases disappointingly unsuccessfulBased on preliminary in vitro and in vivo studies we have identified a novel small moleculemethyldimethyloxodihydrobenzo cnaphthyridinecarboxylateBNCthat significantly decreases neuroinflammation and production o ...