HealthDay (9/15, Behen) reports that according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a new drug regimen for hepatitis C composed of “peginterferon and ribavirin, two drugs that have been the standard of care for hepatitis C for more than a decade,” and “a recently approved hepatitis C medication called… Read more »
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Folate Intake May Reduce Risk Of Colorectal Cancer
Reuters (9/3, Pittman) reported that according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, people with the highest daily folate intake had a 30% less risk of colorectal cancer than those with lower intakes. Todd Gibson of the National Cancer Institute, however, was quoted as saying that folate’s effect is “definitely still an… Read more »
Gastric Bypass Patients Need Alcohol Warning
MedPage Today (8/27, Fiore) reported a letter in The Lancet suggesting that “the data ‘mandate’ that clinicians warn patients having Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery that they could experience ‘a major difference in their capacity to handle alcohol after their surgery.’” The effect may be due to “alcohol-producing bacteria that accumulate in the bypassed duodenal-jejunal loop”… Read more »
