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Atypical food allergies common in IBS
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- Amy Karon
Many patients with irritable bowel syndrome have atypical food allergies and improve with appropriate elimination diets.
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Endoscopist personality linked to adenoma detection rate
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- Amy Karon
Endoscopists’ self-reported personality traits correlated significantly with their rates of adenoma detection.
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COPD exacerbations associated with poor sleep quality
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- Amy Karon
After 18 months of follow-up, patients with at least one exacerbation of COPD had a median baseline Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score of 6.0,...
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Cognitive decline sped up after CHD
- Author:
- Amy Karon
The acceleration in cognitive decline persisted for years after incident CHD.
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Tofacitinib upped herpes zoster risk in ulcerative colitis
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Over a median of 1.4 years, therapy was otherwise safe, compared with placebo.
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Inducible nitric oxide synthase promotes insulin resistance in obesity
- Author:
- Amy Karon
The findings could lead to new treatments for metabolic diseases.
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Acetyl-coenzyme-A carboxylase inhibition shows early promise for acne vulgaris
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Two weeks of treatment approximately halved facial sebum production.
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Systematic review indicates cutaneous laser therapy may be safe during pregnancy
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Elective laser treatments are usually not recommended during pregnancy, but no evidence supports this, according to the authors of the review.
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Tofacitinib upped herpes zoster risk in ulcerative colitis
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Over a median of 1.4 years, therapy was otherwise safe, compared with placebo.
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Crohn’s: Red meat avoidance won’t prevent flares
- Author:
- Amy Karon
There were no significant differences in time to any symptomatic relapse between the high– and low–red meat diet groups at the end of the study....
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Revision total joint replacements linked to higher infection risk
- Author:
- Amy Karon
The 90-day risk of surgical site infection was 5.77 times higher after revision vs. primary total joint replacement.
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TEG-guided topped conventional transfusion in cirrhotic patients with variceal bleeding
- Author:
- Amy Karon
With TEG, only four (13.3%) patients received transfusions, compared with every patient in the conventional transfusion group (P less...
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Zoster vaccination is underused but looks effective in IBD
- Author:
- Amy Karon
For men with inflammatory bowel disease, herpes zoster vaccination was associated with about a 46% decrease in risk of associated infection...
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BMI in male teens predicts cardiomyopathy risk
- Author:
- Amy Karon
The hazard ratio for dilated cardiomyopathy in adulthood was 1.38 when adolescent body mass index was 22.5-25.0 kg/m2 – and rose to 8....
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Pancreatic cancers often contained targetable mutations
- Author:
- Amy Karon
A total of 17% of specimens harbored mutations that are potentially targetable with existing therapies. These mutations involved either RTK/ras/...