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    Damian McNamara

    Damian McNamara is a journalist for Medscape Medical News and MDedge. He worked full-time for MDedge as the Miami Bureau covering a dozen medical specialties during 2001-2012, then as a freelancer for Medscape and MDedge, before being hired on staff by Medscape in 2018. Now the two companies are one. He uses what he learned in school – Damian has a BS in chemistry and an MS in science, health and environmental reporting/journalism. He works out of a home office in Miami, with a 100-pound chocolate lab known to snore under his desk during work hours.

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    Rise in number of unclaimed dead bodies used in medical schools

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    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: September 1, 2023

    The number of unclaimed bodies accepted by medical schools in Texas rose by almost seven times between 2017 and 2021.

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    Hold Ozempic before surgery to optimize patient safety?

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: June 20, 2023

    “It’s a really hot issue now. We are getting emails from our members looking for guidance.”

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    Nearly one in three patients with IBD affected by skin lesions

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: March 14, 2023

    “Skin lesions in IBD patients are much more prevalent than it is generally accepted. The lesions may be related to the pathogenesis of IBD, but it...

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    AI-assisted colonoscopy in IBD: Not all it’s cut out to be?

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: March 14, 2023

    The lower ADR rate in AI-assisted procedures could be the result of an overreliance on the AI technology and shorter procedure times, which may...

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    Mental health risks higher among young people with IBD

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: March 7, 2023

    “Anxiety and depression will not be a surprise to most of us. But we also saw changes for eating disorders, PTSD, and sleep changes.”

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    DNA panels could predict endoscopic response to biologics in Crohn’s disease

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: March 7, 2023

    Adding biomarkers to improve biologic medication selection is “urgently needed ... however, such biomarkers are not available for practice today...

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    DNA panels could predict endoscopic response to biologics in Crohn’s disease

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: March 4, 2023

    Adding biomarkers to improve biologic medication selection is “urgently needed ... however, such biomarkers are not available for practice today...

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    COVID emergency orders ending: What’s next?

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Kelly Wairimu Davis
    Publish date: February 2, 2023

    There will be cost-sharing changes for COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and certain treatments.

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    Long COVID affecting more than one-third of college students, faculty

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: January 30, 2023

    A new study is unique for evaluating mostly healthy, young adults and for its rare look at long COVID in a university community.

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    Rise of ‘alarming’ subvariants of COVID ‘worrisome’ for winter

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: December 19, 2022

    This means people have no or “markedly reduced” protection against infection from these four strains.

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    Future HIV PrEP innovations aim to address adherence, women’s health, and combination treatments

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: November 29, 2022

    Only about 20% of people who could benefit from PrEP use the preventative medication.

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    Experts explain the ‘perfect storm’ of rampant RSV and flu

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    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: November 21, 2022

    “Decreased exposure to endemic viruses created an immunity gap – a group of susceptible individuals who avoided infection and therefore lack...

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    Guselkumab and golimumab: Better together for ulcerative colitis

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: October 27, 2022

    “The early study results, such as the VEGA study, appear promising for combination biologics with a good safety profile.”

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    For many, long COVID’s impacts go on and on, major study says

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: October 13, 2022

    “This infection has become so common in a community because it’s so mild and spreading so rapidly that we’re seeing more long COVID symptoms than...

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    Ancient DNA discoveries lead to Nobel Prize in medicine and help explain how humans evolved

    Author:
    Damian McNamara
    Publish date: October 4, 2022

    In a big picture sense, Dr. Pääbo’s research helps answer where modern-day humans come from and how we interacted with our hominin relatives tens...

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