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G-POEM for refractory gastroparesis after gastric pacer placement: moving things forward
Gastroparesis remains a devastating diagnosis. The inability to properly empty the stomach after eating can lead to chronic symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating, difficulty controlling serum blood sugar levels (in patients with diabetes), and other troubles.1 For literally decades, the treatment of patients with gastroparesis has focused on attempts to improve gastric motility with prokinetic medications such as metoclopramide, erythromycin, domperidone, and other agents. Diabetic patients are often also told to lower their hemoglobin A1C to achieve better glycemic control in hopes of producing an im...
Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - September 20, 2023 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Douglas G. Adler Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

As cannabis laws relax, neuroscientist warns of its dangers for developing brain
One morning in June, barely 5 months after the first dispensary for recreational cannabis opened in New York state, neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd spoke via Zoom to an audience of educators and specialists who work with or run programs for children. The session’s organizers, alarmed by how many children in their South Bronx community were now getting their hands on cannabis, had sought Hurd’s expertise on the drug’s effects. Hurd put up a slide of the human brain, its bumps and grooves tinged blue, green, yellow, and red to indicate the distribution of the receptors to which tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoact...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 31, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Bullous cellulitis as an extraordinary manifestation of a Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa infection
We describe a case of a 63-year-old Chinese woman with multiple medical comorbidities on corticosteroid therapy who developed fever and a painful swelling on her left leg after being pricked by a branch while gardening. There was no abdominal pain, vomiting or diarrhea. A diagnosis of bullous cellulitis was made clinically, and blood was sent for bacteriological culture. A beta-hemolytic commashaped gram-negative bacillus was isolated from the blood. It was also oxidase-positive and produced an acid/alkaline (A/K) reaction on triple sugar iron agar. It was identified biochemically as Vibrio cholerae. After additional testi...
Source: Tropical Biomedicine - August 31, 2023 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: S F Ummu C H Ding A A Wahab M N Tzar Source Type: research