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Pancreatitis Recurrences Reduced With Repeated Anti-Alcohol Counseling
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Following an initial hospitalization for acute alcohol-associated pancreatitis, recurrences are more effectively reduced with repeated visits to an outpatient gastrointestinal clinic for brief motivational alcohol counseling sessions than with a single standardized anti-alcohol message delivered to the patient at hospital discharge, a study from Finland shows. Reuters Health Information
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Gene Signature Predicts Infliximab Response in Ulcerative Colitis
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While the anti-tumor necrosis (TNF)-alpha agent infliximab - marketed by Centocor as Remicade -- is an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis, about 40% of patients do not respond to the drug. Predicting which patients will fail to respond has so far been impossible. Reuters Health Information
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