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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: March 1, 2014
Major finding: Colonoscopies performed for reasons other than screening were strongly and significantly associated with a reduction in colorectal ...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: January 10, 2014
Major finding: The sensitivity of the models were 68%-87% for the risk score cut-off value of 10% (marking the difference between low-risk and int...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: January 1, 2014
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: January 1, 2014
Major finding: Of more than 12,000 Medicare patients who underwent upper and lower endoscopy, fewer than two-thirds had the procedures "bundled" o...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: January 1, 2014
Major finding: At 6 weeks, more than half of ulcerative colitis patients taking golimumab had achieved clinical response, compared with less than ...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: January 1, 2014
Major finding: Bisphosphonate treatment beat sodium fluoride, calcium plus vitamin D, and low-impact exercise in improving bone mineral density an...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: December 1, 2013
Major finding: The development of diverticulosis is not likely related to dietary fiber intake, and the progression of diverticulosis to diverticu...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: October 1, 2013
Major finding: Challenging duodenal biopsy specimens with gliadin in gluten-sensitive patients without celiac disease is nondiagnostic for this co...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: October 1, 2013
Major finding: Among hepatitis C patients who received the protease inhibitor danoprevir in addition to a regimen of peginterferon alfa-2a/ribavir...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: October 1, 2013
Major finding: Early azathioprine therapy did not increase the proportion of patients with sustained relapse in Crohn’s compared with placeb...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: October 1, 2013
Major finding: Patients taking antiplatelet agents can expect a 2.4% risk of clinically important bleeds within 30 days from polypectomy; it may b...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: September 24, 2013
Major finding: Disease Activity Score 28 ratings (DAS28) were significantly higher when patients assessed themselves (mean = 3.34) than when their...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: September 16, 2013
Major finding: Bullied children are more than twice as likely to complain of psychosomatic problems as children who are not bullied, with an odds ...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: August 1, 2013
Major finding: The probiotic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii does not appear to have any beneficial effects for patients with Crohn’s disease ...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: August 1, 2013
Major finding: An updated definition of liver-related mortality shows that death rates are unchanged over 30 years: 23.9 per 100,000 persons for t...
