University of Miami

The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project.

Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of loci for common diseases, but, for the majority of these, the mechanisms underlying disease susceptibility remain un...

Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach.

We developed a multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress. Five scales (of four items each) measure conceptually distinct a...

A Controlled Trial of Two Nucleoside Analogues plus Indinavir in Persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and CD4 Cell Counts of 200 per Cubic Millimeter or Less

Treatment with indinavir, zidovudine, and lamivudine as compared with zidovudine and lamivudine alone significantly slows the progression of HIV-1 disease in patients with 200 C...

How coping mediates the effect of optimism on distress: A study of women with early stage breast cancer.

At diagnosis, 59 breast cancer patients reported on their overall optimism about life; 1 day presurgery, 10 days postsurgery, and at 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-ups, they report...

Activity and safety of nivolumab, an anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, for patients with advanced, refractory squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (CheckMate 063): a phase 2, single-arm trial

Dispositional Optimism and Physical Well‐Being: The Influence of Generalized Outcome Expectancies on Health

ABSTRACT This article explores the implications that dispositional optimism holds for physical well‐being Research is reviewed that links optimism to a number of different posit...

Coping with stress: Divergent strategies of optimists and pessimists.

Previous research has shown that dispositional optimism is a prospective predictor of successful adaptation to stressful encounters. In this research we attempted to identify po...

Effect of Antihypertensive Drug Treatment on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Women and Men

Background: Trials of drug therapy for hypertension have shown that such therapy has a clear overall benefit in preventing cardiovascular disease. Although these trials have inc...

Clinicopathologic and¹¹C-Pittsburgh compound B implications of Thal amyloid phase across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum

Thal amyloid phase, which describes the pattern of progressive amyloid-β plaque deposition in Alzheimer's disease, was incorporated into the latest National Institute of Ageing ...

Production and cycling of natural microbial exopolymers (EPS) within a marine stromatolite