“Medicare Program Integrity: Few Payments in 2011 Exceeded Limits under One Kind of Prepayment Control, but Reassessing Limits Could Be Helpful,” (GAO-13-430, May 2013, .pdf format, 22p.).
June 11, 2013
CAAR – National Center on Caregiving Funding Opportunity – June 11, 2013
“The Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award,” (June 2013). Note: The deadline for applications is August 16, 2013.
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CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article Abstracts – June 11, 2013
A. “Heightened emotional contagion in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease is associated with temporal lobe degeneration,” by Virginia E. Sturm, Jennifer S. Yokoyama, William W. Seeley, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, and Katherine P. Rankin (Vol. 110, No. 24, June 11, 2013, p. 9944-9949).
www.pnas.org/content/110/24/9944.abstract
B. “Proliferation of amyloid-{beta}42 aggregates occurs through a secondary nucleation mechanism,” by Samuel I. A. Cohen, Sara Linse, Leila M. Luheshi, Erik Hellstrand, Duncan A. White, Luke Rajah, Daniel E. Otzen, Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M. Dobson, and Tuomas P. J. Knowles (Vol. 110, No. 24, June 11, 2013, p. 9758-9763).
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – June 11, 2013
A. “Metal-on-Metal Hip Prostheses and Systemic Health: A Cross-Sectional Association Study 8 Years after Implantation,” by Jennifer R. Prentice, Matthew J. Clark, Nigel Hoggard, Allison C. Morton, Claire Tooth, Martyn N. Paley, Ian Stockley, Marios Hadjivassiliou, and J. Mark Wilkinson (PLoS ONE 8(6): e66186. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066186, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066186
B. “Intra-Individual Reaction Time Variability in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease: Gender, Processing Load and Speed Factors,” by Michelle Phillips, Peter Rogers, Judy Haworth, Antony Bayer, and Andrea Tales (PLoS ONE 8(6): e65712. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065712, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 12p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065712
C. “Inflammatory Proteins in Plasma Are Associated with Severity of Alzheimer’s Disease,” by Rufina Leung, Petroula Proitsi, Andrew Simmons, Katie Lunnon, Andreas Güntert, Deborah Kronenberg, Megan Pritchard, Magda Tsolaki, Patrizia Mecocci, Iwona Kloszewska, Bruno Vellas, Hilkka Soininen, Lars-Olaf Wahlund, and Simon Lovestone (PLoS ONE 8(6): e64971. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064971, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 10p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0064971
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