Doug Brunk is a San Diego-based award-winning reporter who began covering health care in 1991. Before joining the company, he wrote for the health sciences division of Columbia University and was an associate editor at Contemporary Long Term Care magazine when it won a Jesse H. Neal Award. His work has been syndicated by the Los Angeles Times and he is the author of two books related to the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program. Doug has a master’s degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Follow him on Twitter @dougbrunk.
A multicenter of patients who had low anterior resection with stapled anastomosis for rectal cancer found no clinical or economic benefit in routinely...
There is no difference in 30-day outcomes for patients undergoing emergency surgery for acute diverticulitis with primary anastomosis with or without ...
The detection rate of significant polyps was highest for the first postoperative surveillance colonoscopies performed at 1 year following curative res...
Overall 5-year survival rates for anal cancer in the United States have steadily improved since the 1970s, but the incidence of disease continues to r...
LOS ANGELES – A small single-center study has shown that 44% of inflammatory bowel disease patients on vedolizumab had some form of infectious complic...
LOS ANGELES – Patients over the age of 80 who present with diverticulitis requiring an emergent Hartmann’s procedure have a 30-day mortality rate of 2...
INDIAN WELLS, CALIF. – Both surgery and pessary are effective at helping women with pelvic organ prolapse attain pre-treatment goals, improvements in ...
INDIAN WELLS, CALIF. – Premenopausal age was associated with a greater temporary decline in sexual desire 1 month after undergoing surgery for suspect...