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K-Pouch Surgery: Continent ileostomy preserves continence and quality of life
… K-pouch surgery entails the creation of an internal pouch from a section of the small intestine. The pouch is … which prevents the escape of liquid waste and gas from the pouch. Waste thus collects in the pouch, remaining … a bag is so important to their quality of life. Freedom from an external appliance allows patients to wear better …
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Peter Chiu, MD
… Reconstruction Program. Dr. Chiu earned his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Clinical Research from Stanford University. With a clinical focus on complex …
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Amanda L. Cantor, MD
… specializing in pediatric liver diseases. She graduated from Sackler School of Medicine in 2016 and went on to … Residency at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore from 2016-2019. She pursued a fellowship at Columbia-MSCHONY from 2019-2022, specializing in Pediatric Gastroenterology. …
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A Primer on Parathyroid Surgery in 2024
… This conversation has been adapted from a comprehensive interview on thyroid, parathyroid, and … become very enlarged. The parathyroid hormone levels go up from a normal range of 70 to in the thousands. And a good percentage of those patients would benefit from an operation. But again, a lot of them never actually …
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What We're Reading: 08/07/26
… who may benefit, access, and importance of awareness. (from nytimes.com) America Is About to Go Over a Peptide Cliff … safety, efficacy, and even consistent formulation? (from theatlantic.com) Black lung rates in Appalachia are high … protections exist, but workers are still getting sick. (from npr.org) And now some fiction, homegrown. What happens …
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Care Within Reach
… set the standard for patient-focused treatment. Patients from all over the world come to us for the very best care—and … diagnosis, care, and recovery can require support from many different specialties. As part of Columbia … to help critically ill patients who have been turned away from other centers. From high-risk cardiac patients to …
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Pediatric Update: Hope for Children with Lymphatic Malformations
… some are even bed-bound due to pain and constant drainage from their skin. Difficult to identify Moreover, many suffer … and Gynecology, it was discovered that cells they isolated from LMs were sensitive to a common blood pressure medication … safe doses, and perhaps even to know who will benefit most from it. Drs. Wu and Shawber are doing a fantastic job of …
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Stone Hearts — Chapter 3: Give
… What happens when a surgeon turns his eye from the operating room to crime fiction? In "Stone Hearts", … heart surgeon, made arrangements to retrieve a heart donor from Montreal for transplantation in New York City. That … French colonies of North America, a localizing memory peg from which George could demonstrate at least some knowledge, …
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What We’re Reading: 11/17/23
… A couple of highlights from around the web that made it into our feeds this week. … the question, where do priorities lie and for whom? ( From theatlantic.com ) How digital twins may enable … your heart to craft treatment plans, it’s already here! ( From theguardian.com ) Doctors are among the many dead in …
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A Fun Time Was Had By All In The City By The Bay!
… stronger than ever! Nearly 70 attended with representation from Graduation classes as far back as the 1950s and every … Keung (first John Jones Fellow), and Alodia Gabre-Kidan from the residency program, and several P&S students keenly … discussions among old and new acquaintances. Topics ranged from the usual professional and familial developments to …
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The Ozempic Effect: Everything You Need to Know About Medical Weight Loss
… GLP-1 drugs are helping shift the understanding of obesity from personal failure to a medical condition that can be … Ozempic doesn't. Then Mounjaro, which is a different drug from a different company that actually not only has GLP-1 … common reason for stopping. Some have a lot of discomfort from reflux. And some just didn't lose that much weight. I …
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By Letting Patients Lead, We Can Advance Medicine
… social workers are trained. It would help us view things from more of the complex systems that contribute to the human … lot of what we knew about fatty liver disease was derived from the European ancestry population,” Dr. Wattacheril says, … has a lot to do with the savvy, generosity, and insight from the patients that she serves. “My questions are fed by …
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What We’re Reading (and Viewing): Barbie Edition
… A couple of highlights from around the web that made it into our feeds this week. … many other food allergies, often delayed several hours from initial exposure. There’s still a lot to unpack here scientifically, and also much to know from what has already been discovered. Physicians and …
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