by dtrubin | Jan 27, 2020 | In the Press
Advanced IBD Fellow Shintaro Akiyama, MD, PhD presented a Quick Shot of his abstract on pouchitis involving the rectal cuff at Crohn’s and Colitis Congress. MedPage Today reported the results in the article here and Healio reported the results here. Very proud...
by dtrubin | Dec 16, 2019 | biosensor, In the Press
Second-year Pritzker medical student, Yangtian Yi, received Best Abstract in Surgery at AIBD 2019 for his abstract associating length of stay for IBD surgical patients with data collected from wearable devices. His oral presentation and abstract was reported on by...
by dtrubin | Dec 6, 2019 | In the Press
Pritzker medical student Donald Lei’s manuscript was accepted to the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Reuters Health Information reported on the study with comments by Dr. Rubin. “Our study did in fact demonstrate significantly reduced rates of...
by dtrubin | Dec 6, 2019 | histology, normalization, Rubin's Reflections
The FDA and others have been interested in the role of histology for assessing “deeper” levels of disease control, with the premise that biopsy may reflect the state of the disease more accurately and perhaps more objectively than endoscopy, and certainly more than...
by dtrubin | Dec 4, 2019 | QoL, Rubin's Reflections
There is a growing number of people diagnosed with IBD who are defined as “elderly”. This varies in definition but can be considered those who have IBD older than 50 or older than 60 or 65. I prefer the World Health Organization definition of >65. The two different...
