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April 17, 2024
By Samer Charbel, MD, FACP, FACG, Chairman of Gastroenterology at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center
Colon cancer remains the third-leading cause of deaths related to cancer in the United States. While the death rate is dropping for older adults since the advent of screening, the disease is killing ...
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August 02, 2017
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July 26, 2017
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July 24, 2017
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July 19, 2017
Gone are the days when you’d stand at a window and gaze at 15 babies lined up in bassinets in a hospital nursery. Nurseries for healthy babies are disappearing from hospitals across the country, inclu...