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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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Colonoscopy Repeats Greater With Non-Specialists
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Older adults who have a colonoscopy performed by a family doctor, internist or general surgeon are somewhat more likely to need another one within a year compared with those who have the procedure done by a gastroenterologist, a new report finds. Reuters Health Information
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