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Women in GI: Career-spanning strategies to overcome gender bias
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Inherent gender bias – both systemic and self-directed – can bar women from advancing as early as medical school and continue throughout their...
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Chemoprevention for colorectal neoplasia
- Author:
- Amy Karon
The update encouraged only a few options for consideration based on effectiveness, affordability, and safety.
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Women in GI: Career-spanning strategies to overcome gender bias
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Inherent gender bias – both systemic and self-directed – can bar women from advancing as early as medical school and continue throughout their...
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AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines: Medical management of moderate to severe luminal and perianal fistulizing Crohn’s disease
- Author:
- Amy Karon
These guidelines reflect nearly the improvement in outcomes for Crohn’s disease over recent years, as well as ways forward.
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Medical homes a boon to patients with bleeding disorders
- Author:
- Amy Karon
The patient-centered medical home – a widely accepted concept in primary care and in some specialties – can...
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Low-fat diet upped quality of life in ulcerative colitis
- Author:
- Amy Karon
These data suggest that even patients in remission could benefit from a healthier diet, and just as importantly, neither diet exacerbated symptoms...
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IL-6 trans-signaling targeted by olamkicept in IBD
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Blocking the IL-6/ILR receptor can cause “profound immunosuppression,” but olamkicept “exclusively blocks” IL-6 proinflammatory trans-signaling,...
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Low-fat diet upped quality of life in ulcerative colitis
- Author:
- Amy Karon
These data suggest that even patients in remission could benefit from a healthier diet, and just as importantly, neither diet exacerbated symptoms...
News
IL-6 trans-signaling targeted by olamkicept in IBD
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Blocking the IL-6/ILR receptor can cause “profound immunosuppression,” but olamkicept “exclusively blocks” IL-6 proinflammatory trans-signaling,...
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Management of bleeding gastric varices
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Diagnosis and treatment of bleeding GV are complex, and multidisciplinary management by hepatologists, interventional radiologists, and...
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AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines: Intragastric balloons in the management of obesity
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Although older models of intragastric balloons could have “devastating adverse events” that led to their removal from market in the 1980s and...
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Palliative care management in cirrhosis
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Palliative care has been shown to improve quality of life, end-of-life care, and health care costs, so more guidance for it in cirrhosis is needed...
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Eradication strategies for H. pylori infection
- Author:
- Amy Karon
H. pylori infection is the most common cause of gastric cancer, but eradication can be challenging - and not just because of rising antimicrobial...
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Bariatric surgery in patients with cirrhosis
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Obesity heightens risks of portal vein thrombosis, portal hypertension, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver failure in acute on chronic liver...
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Diagnosis and management of immune checkpoint inhibitor enterocolitis and hepatitis
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Some studies have suggested that colitis, with or without enteritis, affects up to 40% of patients depending on pathway targeted by the treatment...