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Colorectal Cancer: KRAS Changes Everything
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In this video blog, Dr. John Marshall explains how recent findings about the KRAS gene have profound implications both for our approach to colorectal cancer as a disease, as well as for treatment.
Medscape Hematology-Oncology
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Celiac Disease Patients Now Typically Asymptomatic at Diagnosis
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With the advent of modern screening tests and increased awareness of celiac disease, the clinical profile of newly diagnosed pediatric patients has changed, physicians in Milwaukee report. Most are school-age and asymptomatic, having been referred for screening on the basis of their high-risk status. Reuters Health Information
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Colonoscopic Competence Requires Significant Experience
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Technical competence in performing screening and diagnostic colonoscopies is achieved only after participating in at least 150 cases, according to a report in the April issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Reuters Health Information
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IKK2 Inhibition Blocks Liver Steatosis in Mice
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Pharmacological inhibition of the IKK2 activator of nuclear factor (NF)-kappa-B, using the agent AS602868, blocks steatosis and initiation of non-alcoholic liver steatohepatitis (NASH) in mice, according to European researchers. Reuters Health Information
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