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November 19, 2019
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The Customer is Sometimes Right: Direct-to-consumer Ads in Rheumatology

Direct-to-consumer advertisements in health care occasionally provide patients with helpful information that sends them into the clinic with appropriate questions for their doctor. These questions, then, occasionally spark frank conversations that occasionally translate into shared decision-making to produce positive outcomes.

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August 09, 2019
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Patient access to new cancer treatments — an uncertain and fragile process

As Tom Brokaw eloquently stated, uncertainty is at the heart of the cancer experience for our patients.

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June 17, 2019
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Patients with sucrase-isomaltase deficiency less likely to respond to low-FODMAP diet for IBS-D

SAN DIEGO — Roughly half of patients who go on a low-FODMAP diet to treat diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome do not respond to the change in diet. According to data presented at Digestive Disease Week, many of those patients could have a genetic variant that causes a deficiency of the sucrase-isomaltase enzyme.