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Nonsurgical biomarkers show potential in chronic endometriosis
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- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY - Certain nonsurgical biomarkers appear to accurately identify chronic endometriosis and might soon spare patients from years of...
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Expert tips for working with aspiring LGBT parents
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- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY – LGBT individuals face legal obstacles on the road to parenthood via assisted reproductive technology.
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Obese IVF patients need higher HCG trigger dose
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- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY - Women who are obese should receive more than 5,000 IU of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) to trigger final oocyte maturation...
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Ulipristal acetate meets primary endpoint in pivotal uterine fibroids trial
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- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY
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Metabolic syndrome predicts cardiovascular events in HBV infection
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Metabolic syndrome was associated with a fourfold rise in cardiovascular events among patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection, according...
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Interferon-free HCV treatment can lead to herpesvirus reactivation, experts say
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- Amy Karon
Interferon-free direct-acting antiviral regimens for chronic hepatitis C virus infection can cause reactivation of herpesvirus, according to the...
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Healthy relatives of IBD patients have intestinal dysbiosis
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- Amy Karon
Healthy first-degree relatives of children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease had intestinal dysbiosis and an altered intestinal...
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Study reinforces need to properly examine proximal large bowel during colonoscopy
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- Amy Karon
Interval colorectal cancers were proximally located and had DNA mismatch repair deficiency significantly more often than did colorectal cancers in...
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Duodenal bulb sampling barely increased celiac yield in low-probability cohort
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Separate sampling of the duodenal bulb increased detection of celiac disease by only 0.1% when endoscopy patients had a low pretest probability of...
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Delaying cancer treatment for fertility preservation did not affect outcomes
- Author:
- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY – Delaying cancer treatment for fertility preservation did not affect long-term cancer outcomes, suggest the findings from a...
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Women recovered half their ovarian reserve 13 months after chemotherapy
- Author:
- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY
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Study links low diastolic blood pressure to myocardial damage, coronary heart disease
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Low diastolic blood pressure is significantly associated with myocardial injury and incident coronary heart disease, especially when the systolic...
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CDC study finds worrisome trends in hospital antibiotic use
- Author:
- Amy Karon
U.S. hospitals have not cut overall antibiotic use and have significantly increased the use of several broad-spectrum agents, according to a first...
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Resveratrol cut androgen levels in small PCOS trial
- Author:
- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY –
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Psychological stress did not harm IVF outcomes
- Author:
- Amy Karon
SALT LAKE CITY – Rates of ultrasound-confirmed pregnancy did not differ based on self-reported depressive symptoms, stress, or anxiety.