Gastroenterology
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Cohort study shows link between colonoscopy, overall mortality
Major finding: 18.5% vs. 23% of deceased vs. living patients had a colonoscopy, 17.4% vs. 23.9% had colonoscopy plus FOBT, and 41.4% vs.
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Simeprevir keeps HCV at bay in treatment-naive and experienced patients
Major finding: SVR 12 rates were 81.3% in treatment-naive patients with HCV genotype 1 treated with simeprevir/pegylated interferon/ribavirin, and...
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Risk-based strategy bests drug therapy after Crohn's surgery
Major finding: 49% vs. 67% 18-month recurrence rates for risk-based vs. standard drug therapy.Data source: Data from 174 adults in the randomized...
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Home monitoring of mild acute pancreatitis safely yields savings
Major finding: Among patients with mild acute pancreatitis, there were no cases of organ failure or pancreatic necrosis and no deaths within 30...
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Plecanatide may be safe, effective for chronic idiopathic constipation
Major finding: A total of 21.5% of patients on 3.0 mg of plecanatide responded to treatment, compared with 11.5% of those on placebo (P = .003)....
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Several blood tests can identify fibrosis in HCV
Major finding: Simple platelet counts, the age-platelet index, the APRI, the FibroIndex, the FibroTest, and the Forns index all were moderately...
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FIRE-3: Cetuximab/FOLFIRI prolongs metastatic colorectal cancer survival
Major finding: Median overall survival with cetuximab plus FOLFIRI was 28.7 months vs.
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Augmentin implicated in drug-induced liver injury
Major finding: Drug-induced liver injury has an incidence of 19.1 per 100,000 persons, with the incidence per outpatient users of amoxicillin-...
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Universal screening doesn't pay in celiac disease
Major finding: Universal screening for celiac disease among adolescents is not cost effective, nor is it associated with any gain in quality of...
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Amitriptyline eases functional dyspepsia symptoms
Major finding: In a clinical trial, 53% of patients with functional dyspepsia assigned to amitriptyline reported at least 5 weeks of symptom...
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Drug combo curbs organ failures in acute pancreatitis patients
Major finding: The combination of octreotide and celecoxib halved rates of organ failure and disease progression in patients with acute...