Specialty Digestive Health
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Featured
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 Scoring System Allows Assessment of the Severity of Ileoanal Pouch Syndrome
Paul Cavallaro, MD, Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH, and colleagues developed the ileoanal pouch syndrome (IPS) severity score, which is unique among postoperative bowel function scores in that it was entirely developed in a population of patients with pouches and items weighted differently based on patient input.
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Special Report: Standardizing Pulse-Echo Quantitative Ultrasound Biomarkers for Liver Steatosis
Anthony E. Samir, MD, MPH, is playing a key role in a public–private partnership that aims to standardize the technical performance and clinical implementation of pulse-echo ultrasound biomarkers for quantitative analysis of liver fat.
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Mortality Risk Significantly Greater With Interval CRC Than Screen-detected CRC
Keming Yang, MD, PhD, Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, and colleagues detected significantly increased mortality for individuals with interval colorectal cancer (CRC) than for those with screen-detected CRC, and differences in established clinical prognostic factors, genetic characteristics, could not explain the discrepancy.
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Novel Therapeutic Strategy Identified for Crohn's Disease
Hajera Amatullah, PhD, Kate L. Jeffrey, PhD, and colleagues determined that loss of speckled protein 140 (SP140), a chromatin reader, results in uncontrolled topoisomerase activity. They recommend investigating topoisomerase inhibitors for the treatment of Crohn's disease in patients with SP140 mutations.
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PPI Therapy Not Associated With Elevated Mortality
Using a lag-time approach in the analysis of two large, prospective U.S. cohorts, Chun-Han Lo, MD, MPH, Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, and colleagues found no association between the use of proton pump inhibitors and either all-cause mortality or mortality due to specific major diseases.
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
Mortality Risk Significantly Greater With Interval CRC Than Screen-detected CRC
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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
Consensus Statement: Lifestyle and Behavior Modification for Management of IBD
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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
Clinical Chief, Gastrointestinal Unit, Director, High-Risk GI Cancer Clinic
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
Director, Fatty Liver Clinic, Mass General Gastrointestinal Unit, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Cardiovascular Disease Independently Associated with NAFLD in People with HIV
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Matthew M. Hutter, MD
Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center, Visiting Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
The Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery: Measuring and Improving the Quality of Surgical Care
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Ramnik Joseph Xavier, MD, PhD
Director, Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Multi-omics Approach Detects Gut Microbiome–mediated Metabolism Effects on Immunity
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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
Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Women
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.