Monthly Archives: March 2019

The science of sleep, and how to get people to do it better, is getting attention from policymakers to researchers who are trying to understand how sleep impacts performance and health. Continue reading →

Bethany Gallagher and her horse Fabiola have been a dream team since Fabiola was four years old. Continue reading →

Bile acids (BAs) are synthesized from the liver to aid in fat and fat-soluble vitamin solubilization and absorption. Approximately 95% of the unbound BAs are reabsorbed via the ileal BA transporter and transported through the portal circulation to the… Continue reading →

The importance of Barrett’s esophagus lies in its potential for malignant conversion to invasive esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA), a cancer with an extremely poor prognosis. Although a relatively rare event, with a progression risk of <1 per 300 patients with nondysplastic Barrett’s per year,1,2 esophageal cancer deaths contribute a nontrivial excess lifetime mortality risk for such patients. The lack of successful treatments for advanced disease indicate that prevention is a highly important strategy to improve outcomes. Continue reading →

In today’s health care economy, physician leaders are required to build programs that fill the unmet needs of their patient population in a cost-effective manner.1 The practice of gastroenterology has numerous areas of specialization that provide inn… Continue reading →

Click B, Pinky P, Hickey T, et al. Association of colonoscopy adenoma findings with long-term colorectal cancer incidence. JAMA 2018;319:2021–2031. Continue reading →