Health care professionals attending certain smoke-producing endoscopic gastrointestinal procedures, including a procedure that uses electrical current to remove polyps, could be exposed to dangerous toxin levels equivalent ...
May 9, 2024
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A procedure that uses controlled electrical pulses to induce changes to the lining of the first part of the small intestine could allow patients with type 2 diabetes to stop taking insulin and still maintain glycemic control, ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Worsening or persistently high anxiety or depression symptoms are tied to significantly higher use of health care among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published in the February issue ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Re-triaging endoscopies to make more urgent cases the priority during Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdowns led to higher cancer detection, according to research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia.
Jun 6, 2022
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Patients who use cannabis required higher levels of sedation during gastric endoscopies than non-users, according to research to be presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022. As cannabis is legalized in more places and ...
May 21, 2022
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Researchers have developed a new bio-inspired medical endoscope that can acquire 3-D visible light and near-infrared fluorescence images at the same time. It features an optical design that combines the high-resolution 3-D ...
Dec 22, 2020
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Gregory Ginsberg, a Penn Medicine doctor, is exploring a new frontier in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Jan 29, 2020
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(HealthDay)—The rates of post-endoscopic infection within seven days vary from 1.1 per 1,000 procedures for screening colonoscopy to 3 per 1,000 procedures for osophagogastroduodenoscopies (OGDs), according to a study published ...
Jun 23, 2018
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(HealthDay)—For patients with gastric adenoma or early gastric cancer, standard dose or double dose intravenous pantoprazole for 48 hours is equally effective for prevention of delayed bleeding after endoscopic resection, ...
Sep 23, 2016
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(HealthDay)—The risks of cardiopulmonary adverse events are similar for propofol sedation versus traditional agents in gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures, with fewer complications associated with use in simple endoscopic ...
Aug 1, 2016
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