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This trial aims to explore whether or not their is a relationship between inflammation and obesity in asthma patients and how this relationship can impact a patient's response to treatment.

This continuing medical education activity is sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs and focuses on COPD.

This website for medical professionals was developed by the COPD Foundation.

April 15 is still more than four months away, but the time to be planning for it, if you haven't started thinking about it already, is now. If you'd like to lighten this year's tax burden, there are some moves you can make between now and New Years Eve.

Check out this CME program.

This PDA resource provides data on esophageal and gastric cancers.

This pamphlet provides answers to common questions about acute pancreatitis.

This resource from the American Academy of Otolarygology–Head and Neck Surgery serves as a good starting point for your patients who are just beginning their search for online information on GERD.

Both the erosive and nonerosive categories of acute gastritis are detailed here.

This trial will test the hypothesis that the Medibus SRS endoscopic stapling system will be effective in improving GERD-related quality of life.

This site is devoted to compiling the latest news articles related to gastroenterology.

Researchers at UT Southwestern and 14 other centers worldwide found that injections of the drug used to treat autoimmune disorders slowed beta cell destruction in the pancreas of those newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for at least a year.

A majority of providers felt that hydroxyurea was effective for the prevention of pain, but some still did not prescribe the drug to eligible children because of apprehension about future reproductive issues, despite insufficient evidence to support this concern.

This current release of the AGA's guideline on GERD provides thorough recommendations

This site is designed for patients with digestive diseases and their friends and families.

The International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders provides this section of its site for patients.

The development of clinical medical-practice guidelines is a difficult and arduous process. Experts in various disciplines volunteer many hours of their time for medical research reviews and analyses and meetings with fellow guidelines-panel members, and painstakingly writing and reviewing the final report. However, there are many concerns about the quality of medical research serving as a basis for those guidelines.

A variety of factors are prompting hospitals to expand coverage to provide 24/7 hospitalist care, leading to the creation of a new sub-specialty: the nocturnist. Although many programs, in an effort to recruit nocturnists, promise shorter hours, more flexible scheduling, and better pay, the lifestyle adjustment nighttime coverage requires is not for everyone.

In addition to running IPC: The Hospitalist Company, the leading provider of hospital medicine in the United States, Dr. Singer was Modern Physician's Physician Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 and has continued to shape IPC Link, a proprietary clinical communications technology designed by hospitalists for hospitalists. His dedication to the growing field and ability to recognize the power of technology in shaping the delivery of healthcare makes him an excellent source of information when it comes to "hot topics" in hospital medicine.

A nurse shares her experience in her blog and receives support.

I overhead two women chatting about symptoms the other day while they were surfing WebMD on their respective iPhones for diagnoses - their discussion was as public and non-chalant as if they were shopping. I mused over this for a minute, unsure if I should be disturbed or not, and then found myself wondering which URLs really are the "go-to" sites for health information. An answer was only a click away via Google search at eBizMBA.com.

We need to get away from employment-based health care.

Way back in January, Phil Baumann, RN, provided an empathic answer to the question/concern that was on everyone's mind then: "Yeah Twitter seems great and all, but can you use it for anything useful in healthcare?" We followed up with him to see how 2009 went.

As the mean BMI in the U.S. edges higher, I thought that a discussion of 2 recent analyses regarding lipids was pertinent to the season.

Some neurologic disorders increase the risk of problematic outcomes of pregnancy. Data on such associations have been scant, but this is beginning to change. For example, with regard to epilepsy, there are a number of pregnancy registries which track outcomes related to antiepileptic drug therapy. However, large trials and population studies are not common.

A gene that has been previously linked to Type 2 diabetes in adults may also increase a child's risk for being overweight, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found.

A team of psychiatrists at Stanford University School of Medicine has discovered that "scrambled connections" in the amygdala may be the "hallmark" of generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD.

The catchphrase for rheumatoid arthritis treatment has become "early and aggressive." It is the best remedy that medicine has today for the management of RA.

A new study shows that that muscle cells grown in a lab setting and then injected into the esophageal sphincter may strengthen the sphincter, work that could ultimately help in the treatment patients with GERD and fecal incontinence.

When patients present to primary care physicians with acute low back pain (LBP), a serious causative underlying pathology-cancer, fracture, or infection-is seldom identified. Some recommended “red flag” screening questions have high false-positive rates, casting doubt on the value of looking for bigger trouble when none is obvious.