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Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD, MBA, of the Department of Urology, and colleagues found that the usage of telehealth varied by surgical specialty during the COVD-19 pandemic, and their findings support previous data on socioeconomic disparities in telemedicine uptake.
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Hadine Joffe, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues recently undertook a rigorous scientific review of whether the menopause is associated with anxiety, schizophrenic psychosis, suicidality and other mental health disorders, as has been claimed.
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Members of the Brigham’s Department of Surgery served as authors of three recently published retrospective studies focused on bariatric surgery. Eric G. Sheu, MD, PhD, section chief of Bariatric and Foregut Surgery, and surgery resident Tina Bharani, MD, discuss the key clinical implications.
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In a study published in Science Advances, investigators reported for the first time that Merkel cell carcinoma cells express programmed cell death 1 (PD-1). This research has crucial implications for the potential development of new combination therapies for the disease, as senior author Tobias Schatton, PharmD, PhD, explains.
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Researchers from the Brigham, the Broad Institute, and Stanford Medicine combined multiple sequencing and experimental techniques to map the relationship between known coronary artery disease (CAD) variants and the biological pathways they impact.
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Teams across Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been working to elevate the quality and safety of geriatric surgical care for over a decade. Now, the Brigham has become the first hospital of its size nationwide to achieve Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) from the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
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C. Eduardo Corrales, MD, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Nir Ben-Shlomo, MD, of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and colleagues recently undertook two related studies and present suggestions for avoiding iatrogenic inner ear dehiscence (IED) complications after surgery.
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Obstetrician Louise Wilkins-Haug, MD, PhD, and endocrinologist Ellen Seely, MD, are leaders at the Brigham’s Center for Connected Postpartum Care. The pair discusses the need for this center, its multidisciplinary approach to care, and its early successes in managing hypertensive patients postpartum.
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Brigham gynecologist and clinical oncologist Naoko Sasamoto, MD, PhD, MPH, is focused on developing novel therapeutics that target the underlying causes of endometriosis, a disease that affects up to 10% of women of reproductive age and causes pelvic pain that can severely impact a patient’s quality of life.
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Brigham researchers are challenging the trend of deprescribing statins in people over 75 years of age. Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH, led a trio of studies of statin use in older adults with chronic kidney disease, older adults with and without frailty, and adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
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