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Tenapanor Shows Response in IBS-C Within Weeks: Pooled Data Analysis
“The teaching message to patients and providers is not to give up too early; staying on this medication allowed 25% more people to improve...
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Fewer than 1 out of 4 patients with HCV-related liver cancer receive antivirals
This study and others suggest that these practice-altering agents are underutilized. Greater awareness of direct-acting antiviral agents is needed...
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Taste and smell changes linked with worse QOL and cognition in cirrhosis, renal failure
Clinicians should screen for changes in taste and smell among patients at risk of cognitive changes.
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COVID livers are safe for transplant
Using livers from deceased patients with COVID-19 could be an opportunity expand organ availability.
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More than one-third of adults in the US could have NAFLD by 2050
Findings suggest that health care systems should prepare for “large increases” in cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and need for liver...
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Food insecurity increases risk of adolescent MASLD
Findings suggest more work is needed to ensure eligible adolescents can access Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
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Pregnant women with eosinophilic esophagitis show no ill effects from inhaled steroids
Pregnant women who used steroids were not significantly more likely than were those who did not use steroids to experience spontaneous abortion....
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Prognostic tool identifies alcohol relapse risk after liver transplant
An S-DAT score could one day serve as a screening tool for patients at risk of alcohol relapse after a liver transplant.
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Two novel choices for resection defect repair show similar success
Study shows one device as faster and more cost effective than the other for most resection bed shapes and sizes.
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Low-dose aspirin provokes no flares in patients with IBD during pregnancy
Study provides more data on the safety of aspirin use during pregnancy in patients with IBD.