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Using machine learning, researchers in the Brigham Multiple Sclerosis Center and colleagues have developed a tool for predicting what the outcome of patients with recently diagnosed MS will be in 10 years.
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The need for advance care planning (ACP) was especially heightened for older, Black, and Latino/a/x patients at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brigham researchers tested an ACP intervention with video decision aids and remote clinician training, reporting improved ACP documentation rapidly and efficiently.
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Over the past decade in cardiac surgery, health policy initiatives have been implemented to reduce sex and socioeconomic status disparities. To evaluate progress in the U.S., researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently conducted the largest nationally representative study to date.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital conducted the first study that examined a wide spectrum of infectious complications and included a non-IBD control group. They report a higher risk of postpartum infections in women with IBD regardless of the mode of delivery.
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Marvin Ryou, MD, director of endoscopic innovation, and Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MSc, director of endoscopy, recently conducted the first study of which patients are most likely to respond to direct endoscopic necrosectomy with lumen-apposing metal stent (LAMS) for pancreatic walled-off necrosis.
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An analysis of prospectively collected data has demonstrated that adults who sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI), regardless of age and injury severity, are at higher risk of certain cardiovascular, endocrine, neurologic, and psychiatric disorders.
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Idiopathic acute pancreatitis (IAP) is an emerging indication for empiric inpatient cholecystectomy. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently found an extremely low rate of adoption and also report disparities in uptake by demographics and geography.
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A study showed patients with a history of bariatric surgery had lower overall complication rates after spinal surgery than morbidly obese patients who did not have bariatric surgery. Now researchers report significant reductions in symptomatic spinal disorders and the need for spinal surgery after bariatric surgery.
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Joshua D. Bernstock, MD, PhD, in the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Gregory K. Friedman, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and colleagues reviewed novel therapies that target oncometabolism and tumor immunometabolism.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital is ranked #1 in the nation for obstetrics and gynecology by U.S. News & World Report 2022-23. Nawal Nour, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, discusses how the team’s dedication and perseverance has contributed to this major accomplishment.
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