Doug Brunk is a San Diego-based award-winning reporter who began covering health care in 1991. Before joining the company, he wrote for the health sciences division of Columbia University and was an associate editor at Contemporary Long Term Care magazine when it won a Jesse H. Neal Award. His work has been syndicated by the Los Angeles Times and he is the author of two books related to the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program. Doug has a master’s degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Follow him on Twitter @dougbrunk.
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Emergent colectomies for ulcerative colitis declining
LAS VEGAS – Emergent colectomies for ulcerative colitis in the United States decreased more than 7% annually between 2000 and 2014, a large...
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Three in 10 diabetic patients may have liver fibrosis
Once there is a critical amount of triglycerides in the liver, some individuals are going to activate pathways that are harmful.
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Study IDs predictors of nonmelanoma skin cancer in IBD
Male gender and white race rank among epidemiologic risk factors that predict which IBD patients go on to develop nonmelanoma skin cancer.
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Three in 10 of your diabetic patients may have liver fibrosis
LOS ANGELES – For every 10 of your adult patients with type 2 diabetes, three are likely to have moderate to severe liver fibrosis, according to...
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Study probes predictors of response to vedolizumab
Crohn’s patients with a history of smoking and/or elevated C-reactive protein level at initiation of vedolizumab were less likely to respond to...
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Pathological video game use can be ‘life-dominating’
SAN DIEGO – Advocate against pathological video game use as part of good health care, expert advises.
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Shedding light on shift work’s influence on cardiometabolic risk
LOS ANGELES – Recent findings shed further insight into the link between environmental light, circadian rhythms, and metabolic disorders.
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Early psychotherapy may predict buprenorphine treatment retention
SAN DIEGO – Psychotherapy associated with higher likelihood of sticking with buprenorphine treatment.
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Internet addiction ‘an impairing but treatable problem’
Many checklists and diagnostic instruments can be used to determine whether patients’ Internet use can be characterized as excessive.
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Two MS diagnostic criteria found to have similar accuracy
Retrospective study of 2010 McDonald and 2016 MAGNIMS criteria indicates a need for increased specificity for MS diagnosis.
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Hospitalization risk twice as likely for veterans with mental illness
Veterans aged 60 and younger with mental illnesses were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized as their peers with no psychiatric or...
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Long-acting naltrexone tied to fewer detox admissions, more treatment engagement
Patients with alcohol use disorder and opioid use disorder treated with the long-acting injections attained more than 2 years of abstinence.
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Personal omics profiling here to stay
On any day, Michael Snyder, PhD, wears eight devices on his body that measure everything from radiation exposure to fasting glucose and sleep...
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Link between glucose control and CVD risk: It’s complicated
If you think the link between glucose control and cardiovascular disease is complicated, you’re not alone.
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Early intervention key to treating substance use disorders
In utero exposure to nicotine, alcohol, and cannabis is associated with risks to offspring and mothers.