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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease estimated to cost $103 billion annually
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is estimated to affect more than 64 million people each year in the United States, leading to medical costs of...
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Most children with JIA get different diagnosis as adults
Two-thirds of children diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis are classified later as having a different form of arthritis as adults, with...
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Influenza vaccine highly beneficial for people with type 2 diabetes
Seasonal influenza vaccinations can significantly decrease the chances of hospitalizations for stroke, heart attack, and other cardiovascular...
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Direct-acting antivirals: One of several keys to HCV eradication by 2030
Elimination of the public health threat posed by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) might seem impossible to achieve by 2030, but researchers in Italy...
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Targeted HCV patients improve on sofosbuvir/daclatasvir combination
A combination of sofosbuvir/daclatasvir yielded sustained virological responses at 12 weeks after the last treatment in 95% of hepatitis C virus–...
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Patient-reported outcomes tied to long-term outcomes in bariatric surgery
A large study of patients who had bariatric surgery showed that patient-reported outcomes were correlated with long-term weight loss but not with...
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New biomarkers, standardization of AMA testing will improve PBC diagnosis
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Healthy donor stool safe, effective for recurrent CDI
For patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), donor stool administered via colonoscopy achieved clinical cure significantly...
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ASCO: Always screen cancer survivors for chronic pain
All adult cancer survivors should be screened for chronic pain at every visit, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s first...
Guidelines
How new dietary guidelines affect health care providers
While the new dietary guidelines, released jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department Agriculture, are geared...
Guidelines
New guidelines update VTE treatment recommendations
Compression stockings are out for preventing postthrombotic syndrome