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American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
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American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
@AmerGastroAssn
Our mission is to empower clinicians and researchers to improve digestive health. Also follow @AGA_Gastro @AGA_CGH @AGA_CMGH @AGA_TIGE @AGA_GHAdvances @AGA_GIHN
- 🚨 Our new guideline on #gastroparesis care: ➡️ 12 recommendations ➡️ No single solution ➡️ Personalized, patient-centered care is key 🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/Ffeu50WZ7b2 @drkylestaller @GreerKatar8819 @David_LeimanMD @margaretzhou @shailsingh #GItwitter
- New AGA clinical guidelines: we do not recommend the use of #probiotics for most digestive conditions. Correct the unbiased info out there & please retweet. ow.ly/bpw450A2MFA
- Help us spread the word - new federal guidance out of @USDOL today that plans must cover follow up colonoscopy after a positive stool test.
- 📢 New AGA guidelines on biomarkers for ulcerative colitis (UC). bit.ly/3md5H1X 🔥A Tweetorial for #GITwitter by @AmerGastroAssn and @AGA_Gastro. #IBD @AshwinMDIBD @IBDBen @Realcecum @SultanShazi @ShaziaMSiddique @JeremyAdlerMD Follow this🧵
- Please help us welcome Dr. Maria Abreu (@ibddocmaria) as AGA’s 119th president! 🎉 She is AGA's 5th woman president & the Director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Center, and Professor of Medicine & Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at @umiamimedicine. ow.ly/rLx450S2L7M
00:00 - 👏🎉Introducing our 2021 Recognition Prize recipients! We are thrilled to honor these exceptional individuals for their outstanding service to the gastroenterology community. ow.ly/9WpN50DpdHL
- We told @UHC how its GI endoscopy #priorauth program is harmful to those with #CRC symptoms. They didn't listen. Now they aren’t providing details about how it will be implemented & are leaving providers to pick up the pieces. This will hurt patients!⚠️THIS WILL KILL PEOPLE—Disgusting that @UnitedHealthGrp will now block many colonoscopies using “prior authorization”—doctors are shocked and outraged. Thus, any patient seeking surveillance and diagnostic colonoscopies to detect cancer will first need approval that could delay
statnews.com'Stunning' change to United's colonoscopy coverage roils physicians and patientsFor patients who have undiagnosed cancer, a months-long delay due to new prior authorization requirements for colonoscopies could be disastrous. - 🎉Congrats to our 2021-23 Forward Program Scholars! These early career physician-scientists will participate in a training and mentorship program designed to provide concrete and applicable skills. #EquityinGI ow.ly/h9Rk50HEvH2 @MuyiwaAwoniyi1 @ManuelBragaMD @JBenhammouMD
- New in @AGA_Gastro AGA has released 🔟 best practices on how to manage refractory celiac disease. ow.ly/w9k550LnTve
- 🚨 Join the #medicalemoji movement‼️ Check out the digestive system candidates & help us advocate for the #liver #stomach & #intestine #emoji: 1️⃣ Like & share this post! 2️⃣ Comment w/ feedback & suggestions for improvement! @shuhanhemd @AustinChiangMD @AASLDtweets @InadomiJ
- New AGA Clinical Practice Update in @AGA_Gastro on the epidemiology, evaluation and management of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency #EPI from @DavidCWhitcomb and Drs. Anna Buchner and Chris Forsmark. ow.ly/9pK450Q2GCR
- New AGA guideline: GI evaluation of iron deficiency anemia (IDA). We recommend bidirectional endoscopy for most patients with IDA. Published in @AGA_Gastro by @ShaziaMSiddique @AmitPatelDukeMD @SultanShazi @yfalckytter and colleagues. Summary: ow.ly/3LWL50BfMiH
- 🌟 Our first-ever living guideline for managing moderate-to-severe #UlcerativeColitis led by @berkeleydoc, @manasiagrawalmd, @Jhaydek, @ashwinmdibd, @FrankIScottMD, @EdwardLoftus2 prioritizes early use of advanced therapies over a step-up approach. ow.ly/t2Ru50UahEi
