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Dr. Ahmad Haidar has issued a public notice through a local attorney's office that he has been released from employment with Forrest Health's Highland Community Hospital. According to the notice issued through Cruse Law Firm PLLC on May 22, Dr. Haidar's office, also known as Highland Internal Medicine, was closed on May 17 by Forrest Health without notice. Haidar's release states that on April 27, of this year a letter was drafted by Forrest General Hospital notifying patients that "Mr. Jonathan Trahan, N.P., and Sara Duncan, N.P. were no longer practicing at Highland Internal Medicine." The release states that Trahan, Duncan, and Haidar were all unaware the decision had been made. Subsequently, on May 10, the staff became aware that staff could not schedule patients for appointments during the month of June. It was at that point the IT department of Forrest General Hospital provided notification that Trahan and Duncan would be reassigned as of June 1, o...

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Seladelpar was safe, well tolerated, and potentially effective for the treatment of compensated liver cirrhosis among patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), according to study results presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW), held from May 21 to 24, 2022, in San Diego, California, and virtually. Patients with compensated cirrhosis associated with PBC are at risk for progression to decompensation, need for transplantation, and death. Risk for disease progression is particularly high for patients who are intolerant to or have incomplete response to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA). Seladelpar is a selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) delta agonist that has potent anti-cholestatic and anti-pruritic activity and could be a treatment alternative for patients with unmet treatment needs. The current analysis evaluated safety and efficacy of seladelpar using pooled data from an open-label phase 2 study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT0295...

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The winning team: (L-R) Robbie Swick, Kevin Steakin, Conor Martling, event founder Dan Silverstein and Adam Dolbow. It was a beautiful day filled with excitement and compassion while supporting a great cause at the 2022 Lefty Classic Charity Golf Tournament at the Wanderers Club in Wellington on Saturday, April 23. Family, friends and sponsors came together to celebrate the life of Steve Silverstein, who passed away from lung cancer in 2018, and to raise awareness and funds for the Kids Cancer Foundation. A full field of 96 participants gathered to compete in the fourth round of the Lefty Classic. Food and drinks were provided throughout the day as a friendly, yet competitive round of golf took place for a good cause. As the fundraising amount is being finalized, organizers anticipate that they will exceed last year's $75,000. "I feel very proud to see the event grow, and with that, we continue to surpass our fundraising goals from each ...

Long before the coronavirus pandemic, Kathleen Muldoon knew what it felt like to have her life changed by a virus. In 2013, Muldoon, now an associate professor at Midwestern University's medical school in Glendale, was teaching embryology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She was also pregnant with her second child. It was a fact that she shared openly with her medical students. She was set to have the baby around the end of the semester, and as she taught them each stage of development, she could give them real-life examples from her own pregnancy. But at 20 weeks, Muldoon's doctors saw something on the ultrasound. It might not mean anything was wrong, they said, but they wanted to screen her for TORCH infections, a set of congenital infections that can be transmitted during a pregnancy, delivery or after birth. Often, those infections are mild or don't cause any symptoms at all. But in some cases, they can cause the baby to experience birth defects and in som...