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Because of imaging advances, incidental diagnosis of midline intracranial neuroendocrine cystic masses is increasingly common. Edward Laws, MD, of the Pituitary and Neuroendocrine Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues examined whether there’s a link between Rathke cleft cysts and pineal gland cysts.
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After analyzing data from the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL), Brigham investigators have concluded that neither vitamin D3 nor omega-3 fatty acid supplementation prevents frailty in generally healthy older adults. Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH, corresponding author of the new ancillary study, discusses the findings.
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In a study of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital previously demonstrated that patients insured by Medicaid have worse baseline PROMs than those commercially insured or insured by Medicare. Now, they’ve found the same is true in the setting of adult spinal deformity (ASD).
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An international research team co-led by Christine E. Seidman, MD, found that molecular and cellular mechanisms of heart failure in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy or arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy were determined by the specific gene variant each individual carried.
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Brigham researchers are looking at novel ways to boost natural mechanisms that the body uses to counteract the pathogenesis of obesity and its complications. An upcoming clinical trial led by Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD, explores the impact of dietary supplementation with palmitoleic acid in obese, prediabetic individuals.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital determined that within one year after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM), approximately 50% of runners return to their preoperative running frequency.
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Sanjay Salgado, MD, Walter W. Chan, MD, PhD, and colleagues recently found no correlation between suspected laryngopharyngeal reflux symptoms and hypopharyngeal–esophageal multichannel intraluminal impedance–pH (HEMII-pH) results.
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Giovanni Traverso, MD, PhD, MBBCH, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT, and colleagues have incorporated CO into gas-entrapping materials (GEMs) that can be delivered safely to the digestive tract.
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Ameya Kirtane, PhD, and Giovanni Traverso MD, PhD, MBBCH, and colleagues have developed oleogels—gels made from food-based oils—that can be used to deliver drugs to children. They report oleogels may perform similarly to or better than commercial tablets.
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Guo-Ping Shi, ScD, in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues review how allergic asthma affects the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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