(Bentham Science Publishers) Data indicates that high intrahepatic or circulating PCSK9 levels increase muscle and liver lipid storage, adipose energy storage and hepatic fatty acids, as well as triglycerides storage and secretion, thus contributing to…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Role of PCSK9 inhibitors in high risk patients with dyslipidemia
(Bentham Science Publishers) The purpose of this review is to present available data on the efficacy and safety of the two available PCSK9 inhibitors in patients with FH, and importantly to discuss potential differences between the two drugs.A comprehe…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Is very low LDL-C harmful?
(Bentham Science Publishers) Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL-C) is a major Cardiovascular (CV) risk factor. Accumulating evidence supports a linear association between LDL-C levels and CV risk. However, the lower limit of LDL-C that might offe…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Exploration of umbelliferone based derivatives as potent MAO inhibitors
(Bentham Science Publishers) Monoamine oxidase inhibitors are potential drug candidates within therapeutics of different neuropsychological and neurodegenerative disorders including anxiety, depression and Parkinson’s disease. Our findings revealed a g…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Editorial: A proposal to correct minority underrepresentation in clinical trials
(University of Kentucky) In an editorial in CNS Spectrums, a neurologists takes the research community to task for its lack of minority representation in Phase III clinical trials for drugs to treat Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and proposes changes to the s…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Mystery of Sleep
The reason we need sleep has long mystified scientists, but it’s crystal clear that we do need it. In fact, the more we learn about what happens while we snooze, the more we discover new…
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Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Medical Marketing in the United States, 1997-2016
In this study, Schwartz and Woloshin estimate that spending on marketing of prescription drugs, disease awareness, and health and laboratory services in the US increased from $17.7 to $29.9 billion between 1997 and 2016, with the most rapid increase in…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Weight of the White Coat
In this narrative medicine essay, a medical student reflects on her first assigned encounter with a patient during which she managed 6 minutes of conversation, short of the 10 minutes required, throwing her into grave self-doubt about her future profes…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Science News From Around the Planet
A few brief reports about international science and technology from German to Rwanda, including one on the discovery of the world’s oldest known brewery, discovered in Israel.
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Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Global Legacy of Quebec’s Subsidized Child Daycare
With more than two decades behind it, the Quebec program that spawned an affordable child care model has some lessons for the rest of the world.
