Selected February Publications from BIDMC Faculty

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Building on our culture of collaboration and innovation, our researchers are helping to transform medicine and health care delivery. Below are selected academic publications issued in the month of February.

LATS suppresses mTORC1 activity to directly coordinate Hippo and mTORC1 pathways in growth control
Nature Cell Biology / Research / Feb. 3, 2020
BIDMC Authors: Wenjian Gan, Xiaoming Dai, Xiangpeng Dai, Jianping Guo, Min Wang, Jing Liu, Jia Hu, John M. Asara, Wenyi Wei (Department of Pathology, Division of Signal Transduction)

Caring for the transgender patient: Grand Rounds discussion from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Annals of Internal Medicine / Beyond the Guidelines / Feb. 4, 2020
BIDMC Authors: Howard Libman, Eileen E. Reynolds (Department of Medicine)

Joining forces against delirium — from organ-system care to whole-human care
New England Journal of Medicine / Perspective / Feb. 6, 2020
BIDMC Author: Sharon K. Inouye (Department of Medicine)

Cost-effectiveness of tafamidis therapy for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy
Circulation / Research / Feb. 12, 2020
BIDMC Authors: Dhruv Kazi, Robert Yeh (Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology)

Sharing notes with mental health patients: balancing risks with respect
The Lancet Psychiatry / Comment / Feb. 11, 2020
BIDMC Authors: Charlotte Blease, Stephen O'Neill, Jan Walker, Maria Hägglund, John Torous (OpenNotes, Department of Psychiatry)

Adding artificial intelligence to gastrointestinal endoscopy
The Lancet / Perspective / Feb. 13, 2020
BIDMC Author: Tyler Berzin (Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition)

Performance in federal value-based programs of hospitals recognized by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology for high-quality heart failure and acute myocardial infarction care
JAMA Cardiology / Research / Feb. 19, 2020
BIDMC Authors: Rishi Wadhera, Ginger Jiang, Jiaman Xu, Changyu Shen, Robert Yeh (Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology)

Mouse retinal cell behaviour in space and time using light sheet fluorescence microscopy
eLife / Research / Feb. 19, 2020
BIDMC Author: Claudia Prahst (Center for Vascular Biology Research)

EP3R-expressing glutamatergic preoptic neurons mediate inflammatory fever
Journal of Neuroscience / Research / Feb. 20, 2020
BIDMC Authors: Natalia Machado, Sathyajit Bandaru, Clifford Saper (Division of Sleep Medicine)

Antihypertensive prescribing cascades as high-priority targets for deprescribing
JAMA Internal Medicine / Invited Commentary / Feb. 24, 2020
BIDMC Author: Timothy Anderson (Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology)

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