Gastroenterology
Stress-Management Interventions May Aid Health Care Workers
Review generally revealed low-certainty evidence, particularly for longer-term effects
Bariatric Surgery Tied to Less Medication Use Over 15 or More Years
Patients use fewer lipid-lowering, cardiovascular, and antidiabetic medications after bariatric surgery versus patients not undergoing surgery
Allowing Bedside Nurses to Order C. Difficile Testing Cuts Time to Results
However, change in policy not tied to difference seen in time to initiating treatment
Baby Boomers Push Median Age of Americans Up as Births Decline
The share of people 65 years and older grew by more than one-third between the 2010 census and the 2020 census
Guidelines Developed for Treating Chronic Idiopathic Constipation
Strong recommendations made for use of polyethylene glycol, sodium picosulfate, linaclotide, plecanatide, and prucalopride
More Older Americans Use Online Patient Portals to Access Care
Better outreach and training are needed to help patients understand and use portal systems, researchers say
Red-Flag Signs May Indicate Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer
Abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, diarrhea, and iron deficiency anemia seen up to two years before diagnosis
Unenhanced CT 30 Percent Less Accurate Than Enhanced for ED Evaluation
Findings seen for adults presenting to the emergency department for abdominal pain
ChatGPT Does Not Pass American College of Gastroenterology Tests
ChatGPT-3 and 4 scored 65.1 and 62.4 percent on 455 questions from the 2022 and 2021 ACG Self-Assessment Tests
Salmonella Infections in Six States Linked to Papa Murphy’s Raw Cookie Dough
Two individuals have been hospitalized in connection with the infections; no deaths reported
