Ensuring Success for J-NIH

Feline Hyperthyroidism – Ensuring Treatment Success

Hyperthyroidism is a disease of older cats consequently many patients have concurrent diseases. Indeed therapy for hyperthyroidism is often associated with unmasking of concurrent chronic kidney disease. Selecting the appropriate therapy for hyperthyroid cats with concurrent conditions is challenging. Traditional management options for feline hyperthyroidism include thyroidectomy, anti-thyroid ...

Ensuring Restorative Success With Bruxism Testing.

Retention of Women Faculty in Academia: Ensuring Success.

Retention of faculty in academic medicine is an increasingly hot topic. Although retention has long been a challenge, the financial costs of replacement are becoming less sustainable due to the economic environment that medical schools and academic health centers find themselves in today. Women faculty provide a ripe target of opportunity to turnaround this retention trend since the AAMC and ot...

People Skills: Ensuring Project Success - A Change Management Perspective

This is one in a series of articles about the most effective models, methods, and processes of organization development (OD), also known as change management, a discipline that offers much to professionals intent on solving real-world problems. Because it is based on a systemic view of organizations, OD includes the whole universe of fuzzy people issues that increasingly determine the success o...

Genome-wide association for nicotine dependence and smoking cessation success in NIH research volunteers.

Phenotypes related to both nicotine dependence and ability to successfully quit smoking display substantial heritabilities in classical and molecular genetic studies. Twin studies suggest that some genetic components for dependence overlap with genetic components of ability to quit, but that many components do not overlap. Initial genome-wide association (GWA) studies have demonstrated haplotyp...