Exton, Pennsylvania, July 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) suggests just over seventy percent of American adults are overweight, including 40% being clinically obese. Nearly twenty percent of children are obese, rising from 12% of those 2-5 years of age to over 22% of those 12-19 years of age. Analysis from the NIH identified the origin of the US obesity epidemic starting in the late seventies, when the prevalence was roughly 15%, rising steadily through the turn of the century to 30% and continuing to present day. Worldwide, the rise of…
Author: Abhay Panchal
In the newest episode of Small Talk, Big Topics, hosts Drs. Matthew Whitson and Nina Nandy are joined by Drs. Jessica Korman and Erica Cohen, gastroenterologists from Capital Digestive Care, a gastroenterology group located in the Washington, D.C.-area to discuss working in private practice, including managing challenging cases.
Over the past decade, a significant percentage of the country’s physicians have shifted from working in private practices (defined as those owned wholly by physicians) to working in bigger, health system-owned practices. The ability to negotiate higher payment rates with insurers when working at a larger practice is a crucial factor causing this trend, according to a new AMA analysis.
The American College of Gastroenterology recently released an updated clinical guideline on the management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding (Am J Gastroenterol 2023;118[2]:208-231). GEN’s Sarah Tilyou spoke with lead author Neil Sengupta, MD, a gastroenterologist and associate professor at the University of Chicago Medicine, about the impetus for the guideline and what it means to GI practice.
Omeprazole is the most frequently prescribed gastroenterology prescription, according to April 13 data from Definitive Healthcare, making up 17.60 percent of all prescribed GI medications.The top 15 most prescribed GI medications and the percentage of prescriptions:
Pay attention to the media coverage around artificial intelligence, and it’s easy to get the sense that technologies such as chatbots pose an “existential crisis” to everything from the economy to democracy. These threats are real, and proactive regulation is crucial. But it’s also important to highlight AI’s many positive applications, especially in health care. Consider the Mayo Clinic, the largest integrated, nonprofit medical practice in the world, which has created more than 160 AI algorithms in cardiology, neurology, radiology and other specialties. Forty of those have already been deployed in patient care
Concerns about potential malpractice liability are top of mind for many physicians of all specialties. This is not surprising given recent verdicts in medical malpractice actions that have awarded millions of dollars in damages to plaintiffs. Even outside of high-profile malpractice cases, most physicians are aware that the nature of their work puts them at higher risk for liability than those in other professions. Most also know that their physician colleagues across the United States can and do face judgments that can put their personal assets in jeopardy and would like to take steps to protect themselves and their families.
I realized I had gut health issues around five years ago, when I started noticing symptoms like bloating becoming way more common in my day-to-day life. It got especially bad after eating certain foods (looking at you, pizza), but I had no idea how to narrow down what my sensitivities were at the time. Eventually, I did what most people do: Struggle to book an appointment with a gastroenterologist, take several unrelated blood tests, and pay for multiple follow-up appointments before I finally met the low FODMAP diet, a plan that limits consumption of naturally occurring fermentable sugars, and which…
Dr. K attends Digestive Disease Week and has the opportunity to interview numerous members of AGA leadership as well as the GI Opportunity Fund.
New data show that sleeve gastrectomy, but not Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is linked with better disease-specific outcomes in morbidly obese patients who have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Previous studies have shown that bariatric surgery is safe for people with IBD, but there have been few long-term data on whether the weight loss improves disease outcomes for that population, said lead author Aakash Desai, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in an interview with Medscape Medical News. Gastroenterologists are often hesitant to pursue bariatric surgery in patients with IBD because of…