These kinds of comments from readers are why we do what we do The Washington Post.

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🚨Updated HHS.gov guidelines now require written consent for sensitive exams (pelvic, rectal, breast, etc.) done at hospitals, regardless of sedation.

This affects outpatient offices in hospitals, like with many academic centers. Here's what to know:

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If two people watch a 📽️ together, their blinks start to synchronize. People reading almost always blink at punctuation marks. And babies blink more often when they hear a new language.

Why?

My deep dive into blinking #neurobiology for The Washington Post:

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If you remember watching Nicholas Cage, Matthew McConaughey, Brendan Fraser, Ben Kingsley, and Forest Whitaker all win #Oscars for Best Actor...

This is your reminder to schedule a screening colonoscopy or stool test 🏆

#ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth

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Happy to have contributed to this important #preprint by the amazing med student Jocelyn Chang at Tufts School of Medicine and by our very own Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH at BIDMC_GI
#parkinsons #Gastrointestinal

The remarkable power of holding hands🧑‍🤝‍🧑with someone you love.💕Studies show hand-holding can reduce pain and buffer stressful experiences. But its impact on brain activity suggests something more profound is going on, by Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/… via The Washington Post

Studies show that holding hands can reduce pain and buffer stressful experiences. But its impact on brain activity suggests something more profound is going on.

@jimmycoan.bsky.social helps us The Washington Post answer why humans hold hands--just in time for 💟 day.

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Loved this image from Lisa Sanders MD latest column for NYT Magazine. A great example of how our patients' wins are the very best part of our day--and too often patients don't see the celebration that happens for them behind the curtain.

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Happy New Year! Here’s a healthy habit to start in 2024: Make January the month you schedule all your preventive care appointments for the year.

Not sure where to start? My checklist ✅ for every age has you covered--from bloodwork to cancer screenings:

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Today is day 5 of the Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General's #madetoconnect challenge!

Forget the cozy socks this year and consider gifting someone an activity you’ll do with them--an aqua aerobics class, book club, or paint night. More ideas in my column The Washington Post:

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Had a great conversation last night with Dan Rea about the epidemic of #loneliness and small, meaningful steps we can take to make connections this holiday. We both shared stories of reaching out to thank a mentor--and the powerful impact it had.

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Human connection is powerful. Loneliness can be as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes/day Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General.

For The Washington Post, my5⃣-step prescription to try this week to combat holiday loneliness (the first step is one of my favorites).

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My awe of medicine is renewed: gene therapy for #sicklecelldisease is finally here.

I cared for patients with sickle crisis on the wards during The Osler Medical Residency, when this was a tiny dot on the horizon, too far away to offer real hope.

Now it's reality.

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📢It's important we don't normalize suffering.

It can be hard to frame what's a normal 🔴when everyone in your family has always had the same severe symptoms. For The Washington Post, here's when you should talk to your doc and why women have more periods now than prior generations.

Advice by Trisha Pasricha, MD: Menstruation is different for each woman. Keep track of your cycle and flow to know what’s normal for you. wapo.st/3Mrdu68

Why women are having more periods than earlier generations. Excessive bleeding and severe pain during #menstruation 🩸can consume so much more of women’s lives now. An average woman spends eight years menstruating, by Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/… via The Washington Post

From the latest issue of iGIE: Pasricha et al explain 'The impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on screening and surveillance colonoscopy.' spkl.io/60144oIFy

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Happy Halloween!

Remember the biggest threat to kids this day isn't razor blades in candy, weed edibles or clowns in sewers. It's cars

Readers ask, and I answer: How can you burp less?

Well, to start, there are two kinds of burping--read on to find out which one might describe yours!

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Nice to read and congrats on 2 bylines this week in the The Washington Post Health Section