Specialty Digestive Health
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines Get an Update
With input from a Massachusetts General Hospital gastroenterologist, new colonoscopy guidelines update the ages to begin and end colorectal cancer screening.
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New Multidisciplinary Clinic Aims to Improve Surgical Outcomes in Older Adults
A multidisciplinary team at Massachusetts General Hospital offers specialized geriatric assessments and personalized interventions to optimize surgical outcomes in older adults.
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Quantitative CT, MR Spectroscopy Confirm Negative Effects of Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery on Bone Health in Adolescents
Prospective research by Florian A. Huber, MD, Miriam Bredella, MD, MBA, and colleagues showed sleeve gastrectomy in adolescents and young adults impaired bone health, with a reduction in biomechanical bone properties and an increase in lumbar bone marrow adipose tissue compared with controls who did not undergo surgery.
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ChatGPT Performs Well in Answering Common Patient Questions About Colonoscopy
In the first study of its kind, Tsung-Chun Lee, MD, PhD, Braden Kuo, MD, and colleagues demonstrated that a conversational AI (ChatGPT) can provide easy-to-understand, scientifically adequate, and generally satisfactory answers to common questions about colonoscopy as determined by gastroenterologists.
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PPI, H2RA Use by Older Adults Not Associated With Dementia or Cognitive Impairment
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers examined data from a well-characterized multinational, prospective cohort of 18,934 older adults and found no relationship between use of acid suppressors and incident dementia, cognitive impairment, baseline cognitive function test scores, or change in test scores over time.
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Fibrosis Directly Affects Disease Progression in IBD
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital determined intestinal stiffening is a critical component of the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease and found evidence that targeting mechanosensing pathways may be an attractive therapeutic strategy.
Digestive Health Contributors
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Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH
Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director for Cancer Epidemiology, Mass General Cancer Center, Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine
Recent Article
PPI, H2RA Use by Older Adults Not Associated With Dementia or Cognitive Impairment
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Angela K. Fitch, MD
Associate Director, Mass General Weight Center
Recent Article
Personalized Patient Care for the Treatment of Obesity
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Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, MBBS, MPH
Director of the Crohn's and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Mass General, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Role of Biomarkers in Ulcerative Colitis Management
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Cristina R. Ferrone, MD
Surgical Director of the Liver Program, Division of General Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Advances in Liver Surgery at the Mass General Liver Center
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Daniel C. Chung, MD
Medical Co-Director, Center for Cancer Risk Assessment, Director, High-Risk GI Cancer Clinic, Mass General Cancer Center, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Pilot Study: Virtual Reality Is a Feasible Alternative to Narcotics During Colonoscopy
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Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA
Obesity Medicine Physician for Adults, Adolescents, and Children, Mass General Weight Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Affiliated Faculty, MGH Mongan Institute of Health Policy and Associate, MGH Disparities Solution Center
Recent Article
Review: Weight Regulation in Menopause
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Hamed Khalili, MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Director of Clinical Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Division of Gastroenterology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Initiating Oral Contraception Does Not Change Gut Microbiome in Healthy Women
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Kathleen E. Corey, MD, MPH, MMSc
Director, Fatty Liver Clinic, Mass General Gastrointestinal Unit, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Medical Grand Rounds: Updates in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MBA, MPH
Medical Director, Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Patient-reported Weight Agrees With Clinic Data One Year After Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery
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Ramnik Joseph Xavier, MD, PhD
Director, Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of Gastroenterology, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Single-Cell Map of Crohn's Disease Provides New Directions for Drug Development
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Richard Aaron Hodin, MD
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Improving Patient Outcomes with J-Pouch Surgery
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Tracey G. Simon, MD, MPH
Hepatologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Medical Grand Rounds: Updates in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Digestive Healthcare at Mass General
The Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center is a collaborative practice of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, hepatologists, oncologists and radiation oncologists dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of digestive diseases.