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Differentiating Among Biologic Agents in Crohn's Disease: Applying Clinical Data to Daily Treatment Decisions

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Review the similarities and differences between biologic agents, as well as their optimal use, in the treatment of Crohn's disease.

Welcome and Introduction: Setting New Treatment Goals for Crohn's Disease in 2008 (Slides With Audio)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:20 EDT

Welcome and Introduction: Setting New Treatment Goals for Crohn's Disease in 2008 (Slides With Transcript)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:21 EDT

Comprehensive Disease Control: Can We Differentiate Among the Biologic Agents in Crohn's Disease? (Slides With Audio)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:21 EDT

Comprehensive Disease Control: Can We Differentiate Among the Biologic Agents in Crohn's Disease? (Slides With Transcript)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:22 EDT

Optimal Use of Biologics: Translating Clinical Trial Data to Inform Daily Practice (Slides With Audio)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:22 EDT

Optimal Use of Biologics: Translating Clinical Trial Data to Inform Daily Practice (Slides With Trasncript)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:22 EDT

The Benefit-Risk Paradigm With Conventional and Biologic Therapies (Slides With Audio)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:22 EDT

The Benefit-Risk Paradigm With Conventional and Biologic Therapies (Slides With Transcript)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:23 EDT

Question-and-Answer Session (Slides With Audio)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:23 EDT

Question-and-Answer Session (Slides With Transcript)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:23 EDT

A 9-Month-Old Girl With Chronic Diarrhea

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:44:39 EDT

A previously healthy, 9-month-old girl presented with a skin rash and was treated with a 10-day course of antibiotics for presumed impetigo. She developed diarrhea after 1 day of therapy.
The Medscape Journal of Medicine

Chewing Gum May Enhance Recovery After Colon Surgery

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:48:17 EDT

A meta-analysis of 5 trials has found that chewing gum has a beneficial effect on intestinal function, but the effect on hospital stay did not reach significance.
Medscape Medical News

Chronic Constipation: Understanding Issues in Gut Physiology and Implications for Therapy

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Brooks Cash, MD, provides an overview of our current understanding of the physiology of the GI tract with a view toward how that understanding may be applied to the treatment of chronic constipation.
Medscape Gastroenterology

Why Should I Report an Adverse Drug Event?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:14:52 EDT

Individual clinicians can play a vital role in detecting potentially serious adverse drug events -- and the safety of our drug supply depends on them.
Medscape Pharmacists

Byetta Linked to Acute Pancreatitis

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:45:00 EDT

Exenatide therapy has been linked to 6 new cases of hemorrhagic or necrotizing pancreatitis.
Medscape Medical News

Does Your Patient's Race Affect the Care That You Deliver?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:58:46 EDT

Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, describes how to eliminate racial disparities in your practice.
The Medscape Journal of Medicine

What Is the Maximum Dose of Mesalamine for Ulcerative Colitis?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:05:08 EDT

This agent can be administered both orally and rectally to treat ulcerative colitis.
Medscape Pharmacists

Proton-Pump Inhibitors and Bone Fracture Risk: Fact or Fiction?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:21:33 EDT

In his next video blog, Dr. Johnson comments on a recent article in CMAJ further exploring the relation between duration of exposure to PPIs and risk for osteoporosis-related fractures.
Medscape Gastroenterology

Fibrotic Damage by HIV Limits Immune Reconstitution in Lymphatic Tissues in Gut

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:18:25 EDT

Early in the course of HIV infection, collagen deposition in gut-associated lymphatic tissues (GALT) causes greater CD4+ T cell depletion than in other lymph tissues and limits the extent of immune reconstitution that can be achieved with antiretroviral medications, according to research by scientists at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Reuters Health Information