Daily Archives: May 7, 2020

NEW: “Opening up for Ages 65+”: A COVID-19 information webinar featuring VUMC experts set for 3 p.m. today

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Arie Nettles, PhD, James Powers, MD, and Alex Jahangir, MD, will join Grace Smith, Executive Director, Council on Aging of Middle Tennessee, for a webinar about concerns and best practices for people ages 65 and o… Continue reading

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NEW: Culture Survey to open June 8

The 2020 VUMC Culture Survey is scheduled to open June 8 and will close on June 22. This year’s full survey will include the nursing excellence survey, a safety culture survey and an employee engagement survey, as well as five new questions about the M… Continue reading

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NEW: As Frank Rummo died of COVID-19, his family told him they loved him — through an iPad held by his nurse, Maddie Hayes

“If his family had been there, they would have wanted to hold and touch his hand and rub his head, so that’s what I did.” Continue reading

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Liver and Gallbladder Herniation

Question: An elderly 98-year-old woman with a medical history of Alzheimer’s disease, gout, and hypertension presented to the hospital complaining of lower back pain. The patient had no past surgical history. On physical examination, the patient had a … Continue reading

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County Rurality and Socioeconomic Deprivation is Associated with Reduced Survival from Gastric Cancer in the United States

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Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Risk of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Inflammation is a potential mechanism through which diet modulates the onset of inflammatory bowel disease. We analyzed data from 3 large prospective cohorts to determine the effects of dietary inflammatory potential on the risk of developing Crohn’s d… Continue reading

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Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Manifestations of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease in a Large Cohort of Infected Patients From New York: Clinical Implications.

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Inflammatory bowel disease and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: more speed, less haste

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Decline in Annual Mortality of Hepatitis C Virus-related Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States, From 2009 to 2018

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For resubmission to Gastroenterology Editorial Opiates, the Pylorus and Gastroparesis

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