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Patient CRC screening preferences don’t match what they’re being offered
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- Tara Haelle
The greater preference for noninvasive screening tests over a colonoscopy may partly explain stagnant screening rates, experts suggest.
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Patient CRC screening preferences don’t match what they’re being offered
- Author:
- Tara Haelle
The greater preference for noninvasive screening tests over a colonoscopy may partly explain stagnant screening rates, experts suggest.
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Marital status plays modest role in gastric cancer overall survival
- Author:
- Tara Haelle
“Separated patients might be more likely to experience financial difficulties [and] emotional loss.”
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CRC screening disparities greatest among those under 55
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- Tara Haelle
Despite improvements in the proportion of people screened since 2000, disparities remain particularly high for younger adults and those with fewer...
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Roe reversal may go well beyond abortion
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- Tara Haelle
Experts fear that antiabortion laws that take effect in the United States will lead to a medical and legal limbo for thousands of people with...
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Biomarkers may help to predict persistent oligoarticular JIA
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- Tara Haelle
Analysis of a small group of samples revealed that the selected biomarkers more accurately predicted persistent disease than disease likely to...
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‘Genetic’ height linked to peripheral neuropathy and certain skin and bone infections
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- Tara Haelle
Even aside from the links between a person’s actual measured height and different health conditions, their genetically predicted height is...
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Lupus mutation may unlock targeted drugs for patient subset
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- Tara Haelle
A new study provides definitive proof of one pathway that contributes to lupus, though it’s unclear how many patients with lupus are affected by...
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Pfizer COVID vaccine performs well in youth with rheumatic diseases
- Author:
- Tara Haelle
Nearly all participants in the study showed complete seroconversion, in contrast to similar studies in adults.
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Prior authorizations delay TNF inhibitors for children with JIA
- Author:
- Tara Haelle
Many patients newly diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) at one academic center over a year had delays in care due to unnecessary...
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Gaps in follow-up care put kids with asthma at risk of severe recurrence
- Author:
- Tara Haelle
Dr. Bardach’s group estimated that, for every 30 children who have follow-up visits with a physician, one would avoid a return trip to the ED for...
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JIA disease activity, disability linked to social factors
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- Tara Haelle
For patients with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, levels of disease activity and disability vary, depending on family income,...
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ADHD link to prenatal opioid exposure shifts with other substances
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- Tara Haelle
Children’s risk profile for ADHD shifted based on which substances and substance combinations they were exposed to during pregnancy.
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New guidance on cannabis use for treatment-resistant epilepsy
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- Tara Haelle
Though only one FDA-approved drug derived from cannabinoids exists for epilepsy, patients frequently have questions about other cannabis products...
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Just one extra drink a day may change the brain
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- Tara Haelle
Researchers said they could tell the difference between brain images of people who never drank alcohol and those who had just one or two drinks a...