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Elexacaftor–Tezacaftor–Ivacaftor for Cystic Fibrosis with a Single Phe508del Allele

List of authors. Peter G. Middleton, M.D., Marcus A. Mall, M.D., Pavel Dřevínek, M.D., Larry C. Lands, M.D., Edward F. McKone, M.D., Deepika Polineni, M.D., Bonnie W. Ramsey, M.D., Jennifer L. Taylor-Cousar, M.D., Elizabeth Tullis, M.D., François Vermeulen, M.D., Gautham … Continue reading

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High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Sweet Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

ARTICLE| VOLUME 27, ISSUE 6, P1675-1685.E7, MAY 07, 2019 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(19)30492-9 High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Sweet Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Sweet Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster Christina E. May Anoumid … Continue reading

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Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleep.

Science. 2019 Nov 1;366(6465):628-631. doi: 10.1126/science.aax5440. Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleep. Fultz NE1,2, Bonmassar G2,3, Setsompop K2,3, Stickgold RA4,5, Rosen BR2,3, Polimeni JR2,3, Lewis LD6,2. Author information 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, … Continue reading

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An elegy by Arthur Kleinman

THE LANCET PERSPECTIVES|THE ART OF MEDICINE| VOLUME 394, ISSUE 10199, P630-631, AUGUST 24, 2019 The soul in medicine Arthur Kleinman Beginning of article: “When I was a child in New York City in the 1940s, the word “soul” was commonly … Continue reading

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Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer’s disease

Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer’s disease Potential use of Big Data mined from a VR game for preclinical diagnostics… Source: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/19/9285 Significance We report that assessment of navigational behavior using the Sea Hero Quest app provides a means of … Continue reading

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Maurice Preter, MD

Maurice Preter, MD is a European and U.S. educated psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, neurologist, and medical-legal expert in private practice in Manhattan. He is also the principal of Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, PLLC, a medical concierge service and health advisory for select individuals and families.