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Google Trends Useful for Assessing Global Burden of IBS
Ryan Flanagan, MD, MPH, Braden Kuo, MD, and Kyle Staller, MD, MPH, have provided the first evidence that Google Trends can be used to investigate the global burden of a functional gastrointestinal disorder, complementing traditional epidemiologic methods.
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Special Report: Furthering Palliative Care Training in Latin America
Bethany-Rose Daubman, MD, Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MPH, MA, and colleagues designed an advanced diploma course in palliative care (PC) in Chile that improved participants' PC knowledge, behaviors, and self-efficacy and leveraged the train-the-trainer model to increase PC educational leadership in Latin America.
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Diet Quality Is Suboptimal or Poor in Large Proportion of Global Population With HIV
Kathleen V. Fitch, MSN, a principal associate in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Steven K. Grinspoon, MD, chief of the Metabolism Unit, and colleagues conducted the first analysis of diet in a global cohort of people with HIV infection and found diet quality was poor or suboptimal in 42% of individuals.
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Scouting Surgeries, Healing the Margins
David A. Shaye, MD, MPH, FACS, of Mass Eye and Ear, partnered with the Cleft and Burn Center in Kathmandu to rethink how surgical care is distributed in Nepal. The use of surgical scouts might just bring the world a step closer to solving a global surgical crisis.
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Dermatologic Manifestations of COVID-19 Can Become "Long-Hauler" Symptoms
Devon E. McMahon and Esther E. Freeman, MD, PhD, of the Department of Dermatology, and colleagues report for the first time that dermatologic manifestations of COVID-19 are among the symptoms that can persist beyond the acute phase of disease.
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Palliative Care in the Caribbean: Short Course Improves Self-assessed Competency
There is an immense shortage of palliative care services across the Caribbean. Massachusetts General Hospital faculty joined Caribbean palliative care leaders from the Jamaica Cancer Care Research Institute to provide a week-long training in palliative medicine to 83 clinicians from throughout the region.
Global Health Contributors
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Annekathryn Goodman, MD
Director, Gynecology Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology Clerkship, Co-director, MGH Women's Global Health
Recent Article
Quality of Life Needs Attention in Ovarian Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy in Low-Income Countries -
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 -
Braden Kuo, MD
Director of the Center for Neurointestinal Health, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Review: Digital Health for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders -
Brian V. Nahed, MD, MSc
Neurosurgical Oncology / Brain Tumor Surgeon / Mass General Brain Tumor Center, Neurosurgical Spinal Disorders, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director, Mass General Neurosurgery Residency ProgramRecent Article
Direct Cortical Recordings Feasible for Monitoring Thalamocortical Tract During Craniotomy -
Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD
Attending Physician, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine and Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Addressing Global Palliative Care Disparities -
Kyle D. Staller, MD, MPH
Director, Gastrointestinal Motility Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Member, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit
Recent Article
Review: Digital Health for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders