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September 11th 2024
The decision is based on rates of clinical and endoscopic remission with guselkumab in the ongoing phase 2b/3 QUASAR study.
Is Accountable Care at Odds with Improved Care?
All physicians want to deliver quality care. But do the checklists required to measure quality really add up to giving patients the results they want? As the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting gets underway in Honolulu, the question came up in the context of managing irritable bowel disease.
Game-Changing Health Management Platform Ready for IBD Patients
As telemedicine continues to receive favorable reviews from healthcare professionals and patients, SonarMD, LLC recently released its SonarMD platform for securely engaging, monitoring, and managing patients with chronic gastrointestinal diseases.
Docs Flock to Free Photo App Figure 1
Horrifying laceration? Unbelievably large tumor? It's all there for viewing on a free medical app called Figure 1. Its software lets hundreds of thousands of medical professionals post clinical photos, confer on diagnoses, and show their own innovative work. The site has more than 100 million archived photos, all sent in by users, most of them physicians.
Fecal Transplantation Potentially a Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis
As fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has gained acceptance and popularity as a treatment for c. difficile infection, researchers have also been investigating the benefits of the procedure for treating other disorders of the gut, including ulcerative colitis (UC).
American Medical Association Wins Concessions on ICD-10 Switch
Coming next from Medicare: the ICD-10 Obmudsman. Billing under the dreaded new International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) coding system will get a bit less onerous under a deal brokered between Medicare and the American Medical Association.
Celiac Disease Patients' Family at Greater Risk for Autoimmune Diseases?
Spouses and first-degree relatives of patients afflicted with celiac disease were found to be at greater risk for non-celiac autoimmune diseases like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Using High Definition for Chromoendoscopy to Detect Dysplasia in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis
Gastroenterologist Venkat Subramanian, MD, discusses the use of high-definition screens and dyes during endoscopy to detect cancerous and noncancerous lesions in patients with ulcerative colitis
Proximal and Distal Colon Have Different Vitamin D Responses
The proximal and distal colon act like two different organs when it comes to biological function and the microbiota that live there. The difference is seen even at the gene transcriptional level and response to vitamin D, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago reported.
Diabetes Increases IBD Infection Risk
Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases are sometimes treated with immunosuppressive drugs, particularly if they have a significant co-morbidity. A Boston team of researchers found that when that co-morbidity is diabetes, patients are at greater risk of coming down with infections.