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- Kari Oakes
Publish date: December 6, 2016
HOUSTON
Article
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: December 6, 2016
HOUSTON
Article
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- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 29, 2016
BOSTON – Patients with serious liver disease who also had hepato-adrenal syndrome had significantly longer hospital stays; these patients had signi...
Article
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- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 28, 2016
BOSTON – Though criteria for insurance approval for direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C virus are loosening, many patients are still den...
Article
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- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 18, 2016
CHICAGO – Understanding pregnancy’s toll on the body can help physicians treat aortic stenosis or aortic regurgitation in pregnant women.
Video
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- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 17, 2016
BOSTON - Patients with primary biliary cholangitis who have compensated cirrhosis fared just as well on obeticholic acid as did primary biliar...
Video
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- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 15, 2016
BOSTON
Article
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 14, 2016
Clinical depression isn’t a more severe extreme of milder depressive symptoms, but rather a distinct clinical entity, said Hadine Joffe, MD, ...
Article
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 14, 2016
BOSTON – Obeticholic acid resulted in a significant reduction of a biomarker for liver fibrosis in patients with primary biliary cholang...
Article
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 13, 2016
BOSTON
News
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- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 11, 2016
BOSTON – The rate of wait-listing for liver transplants for patients with hepatitis C and decompensated cirrhosis has decreased by over 30% s...
News
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 11, 2016
BOSTON – An endoscopic procedure that heats and ablates a few centimeters of the surface of the duodenum reduced hepatic transaminases in patients ...
Article
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: November 7, 2016
CHICAGO - Turning to surgery earlier in infective endocarditis may hold the key to a cure for some patients. Upcoming guidelines for surgical treat...
Article
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: October 22, 2016
BOSTON – The spirochete that causes Lyme disease in humans may be helping to escalate the rate of human babesiosis cases in regions where both are ...
Article
- Author:
- Kari Oakes
Publish date: October 21, 2016
The new statement, an update from the North American Menopause Society’s 2012 recommendations, gives targeted recommendations for special pop...
