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The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty and staff throughout the month of April 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Haley Simpson, MD,<\/strong> was consulted on the <\/a>rising survival rate of patients diagnosed with cancer.
\nLindsay Rosman, MD,<\/strong> published a study<\/a>\u00a0identifying atrial fibrillation density as a biomarker for ischaemic stroke risk prediction.
\nDavid Wohl, MD,<\/strong> commented on \u2018Cicada\u2019 <\/a>covid, the new variant that has not yet arrived in NC.
\nKlara Klein, MD, PhD,<\/strong> published a study evaluating<\/a> the safety of semaglutide treatment after dialysis.
\nJohn Batsis, MD,<\/strong> advises physicians<\/a> carefully evaluate how much muscle composition patients lose while taking popular drugs for weight loss.
\nChristina Gainey, MD, Hersh Shroff, MD, MPA, <\/strong>and Oren Fix, MD, MSc,\u00a0<\/strong>published a study<\/a> to highlight the benefits, risks and best practices for using AI tools to prepare scientific manuscripts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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