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Adding drugs to gastric balloons increases weight loss
SAN DIEGO – Adding weight loss drugs tailored to patients’ particular weight issues at the 3- or 6-month mark while the intragastric balloon was...
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Addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of trans and gender nonconforming patients
Understanding how trans or GNC patients have sex is essential to providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care.
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Ethnicity seems to affect predisposition to components of metabolic syndrome
SAN DIEGO – The study supports adopting regional anthropometric criteria.
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Diabetes, hypertension remission more prevalent in adolescents than adults after gastric bypass
However, their rate of abdominal reoperations was significantly higher than that of adults during a 5-year follow-up.
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CMS targets ‘spread pricing’ to help lower drug costs
The agency is redefining what constitutes a drug rebate in Medicaid and CHIP as a way to cut costs for patients and taxpayers.
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Bariatric surgery found to be effective in IBD patients
SAN DIEGO – Most patients continued to require no immunosuppression for control of their IBD after surgery.
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Chronic opioid use linked to low testosterone levels
Hypercortisolism also seen.
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Confronting physician depression and suicide
Join our Twitter chat on depression and suicide in medicine at 8 p.m. ET on June 3. Our special guests are Dr. Sarah Candler, Dr. Elisabeth...
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FDA issues warning about use of unauthorized diabetes devices
The agency received an adverse event report about a patient using a combination of unauthorized devices who required medical intervention.
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Elderly concussion patients who used statins had lower dementia risk
However, the subsequent incidence of dementia was still twice the population norm in statin users who had concussions.
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Hormone use linked to hair loss in transgender adults
Scalp hair loss was significantly higher for trans men on masculinizing hormones, compared with those not taking hormones.