✅ out this concise #OpenAccess Hepatology Communications review on #Wilson’s Disease! ✨Read this 🧵 until the end to see a GIANT panda face 🐼 #LiverTwitter #GITwitter  journals.lww.com/hepcomm/Fullte…

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“To write for impact means to keep it as simple as possible.” Good read and very insightful. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Many people are convinced to take this because it is promoted by influencers - some of whom have "MD" after their name. But those influencers are not there when a complication happens. I am. Or Nick Mark MD. Most will not develop liver failure. But some will. Devastating

Make bold predictions and then test them. This is the true legacy of Karl Popper, who argued that the strength of an idea lies in its ability to make surprising predictions; ones that, if shown to be wrong, would falsify it.

Don’t miss the Osler Medical Residency’s new course, Foundations of Bedside Medicine: Clinical Skills for the Modern Physician- for all providers and trainees! May 2nd in Baltimore! Register here: hopkinscme.cloud-cme.com/course/courseo… Kristina Montemayor John Woller

The Difficult Colonoscopy is humbling to all endoscopists. My Pearls : #1 Female Patients If hysterectomy or diverticulitis, use pedi colonoscope + water immersion. (Angulated colon) If chronic idiopathic constipation or visceral obese, use adult colonoscope (redundant colon)

1/ Excited to share our study (rdcu.be/eiAyr) published today in Nature Communications led by Chester Kao, Soren Charmsaz, and Hua-Ling Tsai evaluating age-related differences in immune responses in patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs).

Science is a process of discovering how our minds work.. of figuring out what we're drawn to.. there are things that if I force myself to read, I don't retain very well. And other things, I read the first word and I'm riveted & I just soak it up. – Martin Schwartz on the podcast

Today, NIH announced a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science while reducing the use of animals in research. This aligns with U.S. FDA’s initiative to reduce testing in animals. bit.ly/4jYd4T2

Phase 3 Trial of Semaglutide in Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatohepatitis | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Can’t wait, see you all there 🤓

A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study finds that for patients intolerant or unresponsive to upadacitinib, re-induction to 45 mg/day or transitioning to risankizumab - either sequentially or in combination- offers promising therapeutic options for #IBD management. @AGA_Advances Johns Hopkins IBD

Working with this incredible group of fellows is one of THE highlights of my day, week, year, career periodt. Cheers to the graduates - we are so proud of you!! 🎉🥳👏

New research - Pre-emptive TIPS for gastric variceal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis (GAVAPROSEC): an open-label randomised clinical trial thelancet.com/journals/langa… #LiverTwitter #MedTwitter

Causes of Portal Hypertension

A new paper discussing the importance of federal, institutional, and programmatic support for physician scientist trainees. The same can easily apply to biomedical trainees. We as a nation need to support the next generation of doctors and researchers! rdcu.be/etaiE

🚨GI/Hep Fellowships start next week‼️ Hepatology Communications has the 📑 you need to thrive 💫 #GIHepFellowshipBootcamp First up, you get a consult for a #LiverMass, ✅ out this review about benign liver masses❕ 📍Hemangiomas 📍FNH 📍Hepatic Adenomas 📍Cysts journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

Anytime a patient is referred to me with decompensated cirrhosis for transplant evaluation, I ask myself: is it possible to recompensate it by treating the cause so a transplant can be avoided? All you need to know about this: Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 👉 thelancet.com/journals/langa…

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