Experts & Opinions
Preventing CRC in Underrepresented Minorities: Do Minority Populations Need Alternative Screening Strategies?
Current screening paradigms for CRC are based on age, with patients at higher risk (i.e., those with IBD and personal or family history of CRC) put into surveillance programs. There are no guideline considerations for environmental factors, which are difficult to measure, or ethnicity or race.
AGA Perspectives
AGA Perspectives provides an opinion forum for noted gastroenterologists to debate today’s most controversial topics in the science and practice of gastroenterology.
- Balancing the Options Should PPIs be used as front-line therapy for upper GI symptoms?
- Short-Term Empiric PPI Therapy Is Effective
Ann Ouyang, MD, AGAF - First-Line PPI Therapy Masks Underlying Conditions
Kenneth E.L. McColl, MD, FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE
- Short-Term Empiric PPI Therapy Is Effective
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The GI Physician and Health-Care Reform — Where Do We Stand?
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Don C. Rockey, MD, AGAF, and Jessica P. Shah, MD - IBD in African Americans: A Historical and Clinical Perspective
- Alexandra M. Gutierrez, MD, MPH
AGA Leadership Updates
Video updates from AGA members and leadership.
Introduction of the AGA Celiac Disease Conference
Health-Care Reform: What GIs Need to Know
Updates from AGA leadership and resident politicos on the on-going health-care reform debate.
House Votes on SGR, Senate Moves Forward on Health Reform
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