Damian McNamara is a journalist for Medscape Medical News and MDedge. He worked full-time for MDedge as the Miami Bureau covering a dozen medical specialties during 2001-2012, then as a freelancer for Medscape and MDedge, before being hired on staff by Medscape in 2018. Now the two companies are one. He uses what he learned in school – Damian has a BS in chemistry and an MS in science, health and environmental reporting/journalism. He works out of a home office in Miami, with a 100-pound chocolate lab known to snore under his desk during work hours.
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DNA panels could predict endoscopic response to biologics in Crohn’s disease
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: March 7, 2023
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DNA panels could predict endoscopic response to biologics in Crohn’s disease
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: March 4, 2023
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COVID emergency orders ending: What’s next?
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: February 2, 2023
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Long COVID affecting more than one-third of college students, faculty
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: January 30, 2023
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Rise of ‘alarming’ subvariants of COVID ‘worrisome’ for winter
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: December 19, 2022
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Future HIV PrEP innovations aim to address adherence, women’s health, and combination treatments
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: November 29, 2022
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Experts explain the ‘perfect storm’ of rampant RSV and flu
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: November 21, 2022
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Guselkumab and golimumab: Better together for ulcerative colitis
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: October 27, 2022
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For many, long COVID’s impacts go on and on, major study says
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: October 13, 2022
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Ancient DNA discoveries lead to Nobel Prize in medicine and help explain how humans evolved
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: October 4, 2022
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Why some infectious disease docs are ‘encouraged’ by new bivalent COVID vaccines
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: September 12, 2022
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Long COVID doubles risk of some serious outcomes in children, teens
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: August 5, 2022
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Pfizer plans a vaccine to target all coronaviruses
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: July 1, 2022
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Surgeons, who see it up close, offer ways to stop gun violence
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: June 3, 2022
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CRC screening: Blood test accuracy compared to colonoscopy
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- Damian McNamara
Publish date: May 23, 2022