The burden of kidney disease: Improving global outcomes. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is
a worldwide public health problem. There is an increasing incidence and prevalence of …

Purpose The authors critically examined the quantitative measures of cultural competence
most commonly used in medicine and in the health professions, to identify underlying …

Background Renal replacement therapy (RRT) for acute renal failure (ARF) can be applied
intermittently (IRRT) or continuously (CRRT). It has been suggested that CRRT has several …

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of two doses of gefitinib (Iressa [ZD1839];
AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE), a novel epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase …

African trypanosomes cause human sleeping sickness and livestock trypanosomiasis in sub-Saharan
Africa. We present the sequence and analysis of the 11 megabase-sized …

The 2011 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice Guideline
for Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) aims to assist practitioners caring for adults and children at risk …

Practice of a novel task leads to improved performance. The brain mechanisms associated
with practice-induced improvement in performance are largely unknown. To address this …

Estimating individual genome-wide autozygosity is important both in the identification of
recessive disease variants via homozygosity mapping and in the investigation of the effects of …

Transcriptional silencing by CpG island methylation is a prevalent mechanism of tumor-suppressor
gene suppression in cancers 1, 2, 3, 4. Genetic experiments have defined the …

Pulmonary function measures are heritable traits that predict morbidity and mortality and
define chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We tested genome-wide association …