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ORLANDO, Fla. — Integrating various disciplines into the care of the patient with inflammatory bowel disease improves patient satisfaction, decreases health care costs and will be the way of the future for patient care, according to experts at Advances in IBD 2017.

The “patient-centered medical home” health care model presents a new way of coordinating patient care, focusing on the needs of the whole patient.

ORLANDO — Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease is the official media partner of the Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease annual meeting and will provide live coverage from November 9 to November 11.

Patients who underwent ACL reconstruction with a hamstring tendon graft combined with anterolateral ligament reconstruction experienced a lower rate of graft failure and had greater odds of returning to their preinjury levels of sport, according to results of a prospective study.

In this guest commentary, Leonard J. Appleman, MD, PhD, of the division of hematology/oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, discusses unanswered questions about the use of newer androgen-targeted agents following the presentation of the LATITUDE and STAMPEDE trials at the ASCO Annual Meeting.

Click here to read the Cover Story, “Patients who never make it back after ACL injury present opportunities, challenges.”

Boston Children’s Hospital has been ranked the No. 1 pediatric hospital in the nation for the fourth consecutive year, according to the 2017-2018 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals survey.

Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and co-director of the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses the results of the MONARCH-2 and PALOMA-1 trials that were presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting.

Malnutrition is one of the most common — and most serious — side effects of cancer and its treatment.

It is widely known and reported in the literature that shoulder injuries, including rotator cuff tears, tend to heal slowly and the management of glenoid labral tears, subacromial impingement and the degenerative, arthritic shoulder may be challenging. Therefore, research into biologic treatments for these conditions is underway. This includes exploring the effect in the laboratory and the OR of various types of stem cells on healing when injected or used to augment arthroscopic or open surgery.