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    Some Diabetes Drugs Linked To Pancreatitis Risk

    Diabetes patients who take the newest class of diabetes drugs have double the risk of being hospitalized with acute pancreatitis, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. The authors explained that the new forms of...
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    Pancreatitis Risk May Be Lowered By Statin Therapy

    According to results of an analysis published in JAMA, stain therapy is connected with a lower risk of pancreatitis in patients with normal or mildly elevated triglyceride levels. The researchers explained: "Pancreatitis has a clinical spectrum ranging from a mild, self-limiting episode to a...
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    Dendritic Cells Protect Against Acute Pancreatitis

    NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have discovered the novel protective role dendritic cells play in the pancreas. The new study, published in the November issue of journal Gastroenterology, shows dendritic cells can safeguard the pancreas against acute pancreatitis, a sudden dangerous...
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    Clues To Cause, Treatment Of Pancreatitis and Scorpion Venom

    A Brazilian scorpion has provided researchers at North Carolina State University and East Carolina University insight into venom's effects on the ability of certain cells to release critical components. The findings may prove useful in understanding diseases like pancreatitis or in targeted drug...
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    Clues To Cause, Treatment Of Pancreatitis and Scorpion Venom

    A Brazilian scorpion has provided researchers at North Carolina State University and East Carolina University insight into venom's effects on the ability of certain cells to release critical components. The findings may prove useful in understanding diseases like pancreatitis or in targeted drug...
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    Q&A: What causes acute pancreatitis, and how common is it?

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    pancreatitis? what are the symptoms?

    I was diagnosed with it. but along side it im having severe back and neck pain with some stiff jaw. very bad adbominal pain is what sent me to the ER.. is all this normal? oh and my appetite has been cut in half. im full after half a sandwhich! normally, i can eat more than my Boyfriend.....
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    diagnosed with pancreatitis?

    Just found out I have pancreatic inflamation disease? what are my options and how fatal is this IF or IF not have gall bladder stones as well... my doc is having me go back for another re test on friday. I was in ER all night and thats how they found it. I am so scared as I have a 3 year old in...
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