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Polypectomy clipping success is based on anticoagulant type
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- Nancy A. Melville
The removal of polyps has a high risk of hemorrhage, and the use of antithrombotic medications are well established as key risk factors for the...
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Obesity interactions complex in acute pancreatitis
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- Nancy A. Melville
Severity scores based on body mass index alone do not accurately predict disease severity in patients with acute pancreatitis.
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‘Agony of choice’ for clinicians treating leukemia
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- Nancy A. Melville
Novel targeted therapies emerge as frontline options while chemoimmunotherapy “fades into the background.”
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Surgery shows no survival, morbidity benefit for mild hyperparathyroidism
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- Nancy A. Melville
A decade-long randomized trial shows nearly identical outcomes in most measures in patients with mild parathyroid tumors who did and did not...
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Melanoma screening study stokes overdiagnosis debate
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- Nancy A. Melville
The research has reignited the controversy over the benefits and harms of primary care skin cancer screening.
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‘Forever chemicals’ exposures may compound diabetes risk
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- Nancy A. Melville
The increased risk of diabetes observed among women exposed to a combination of ‘forever chemicals’ is similar to that associated with overweight...
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CO2 laser excision therapy for hidradenitis suppurativa shows no keloid risk
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- Nancy A. Melville
CO2 laser excision therapy has yielded favorable outcomes in patients with HS in some studies.
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Study finds discrepancies in biopsy decisions, diagnoses based on skin type
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- Nancy A. Melville
Disparities in dermatologic care among Black patients, compared with White patients, have been well documented.
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Live-donor liver transplants for patients with CRC liver mets
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- Nancy A. Melville
"For the first time, we have been able to demonstrate [outside of Norway] that liver transplantation for patients with unresectable liver...
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Novel medication tied to better quality of life in major depression
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- Nancy A. Melville
Zuranolone represents the second entry in the new class of neuroactive steroid drugs, which modulate GABA-A receptor activity – but the first to...
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Performance anxiety highly common among surgeons
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- Nancy A. Melville
“I wish we talked about it more and shared our insecurities. Most of my colleagues pretend they are living gods.”
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Progressive muscle relaxation outperforms mindfulness in reducing grief severity
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- Nancy A. Melville
Progressive muscle relaxation has a key advantage: It is quickly and easily learned, which may partially explain the study’s findings.
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High-intensity exercise helps patients with anxiety quit smoking
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- Nancy A. Melville
“We feel we have a targeted [smoking cessation] intervention to tailor to people with high anxiety sensitivity.”
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‘Staggeringly high’ rates of psychiatric symptoms after COVID-19
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- Nancy A. Melville
“Regardless of how long ago they had been infected with COVID-19, all respondents had persistent symptoms.”...
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Executive-function deficits a new treatment target for PTSD?
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- Nancy A. Melville
Research suggests executive-function deficits are a mechanism that maintains patients’ PTSD symptoms over the course of 1 year.