A growing body of research has experts questioning low-fat dairy recommendations. Dr. Mario Kratz is one of them. His reviews of observational studies found some surprising effects of full-fat dairy on weight and diabetes. Now he is conducting a clinical trial at the ITHS Clinical...
Wondering how to improve your REDCap survey response rates? This REDCap Tip of the Month describes four potential ways to increase the completion rate of your surveys....
ITHS Rising Star Dr. Sara Kover has dedicated her career to studying language development in children with neurodevelopment disorders. Her latest project focuses on how memory, attention, and phonology relate to vocabulary development....
Dr. Shireesha Dhanireddy recently worked with the ITHS biomedical informatics team to create a program that assists with participant identification and management of patient data. Learn how the program helps Dr. Dhanireddy save time and reduce administrative paperwork....
Dr. Kevin Conley partnered with two ITHS research services to study a new experimental drug that aims to reduce muscle loss in the elderly by targeting mitochondria....
Biomedical informatics can be an ambiguous term to the uninitiated. While data extraction is often the first thing that comes to mind, biomedical informatics can do much more than that, says ITHS BMI consultant Christine Fong. She shares eight BMI tools and features that...
A study by former ITHS TL1 predoctoral trainee Musetta Fu found that group singing improved both cognitive and pulmonary functions in older adults....
Despite evidence that parents of overweight children consider their children to be a healthy weight, parents estimate greater future risk of weight-related health conditions for their children, according to a new study from former ITHS KL2 Scholar Dr. Davene Wright....
Dr. Susan Apkon has partnered with the ITHS Pediatric Clinical Research Center at Seattle Children’s to study the exon skipping drug eteplirsen, a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy....
When you are designing forms, REDCap will show you a preview of the variables you are building. But it will not show you if your branching logic or calculations actually work as designed. To test logic and calculations, you will need to create test records....
