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Reuters Health Features Perspective from Drs. Henry Pitt and Jennifer Higa on Study Examining Gallstone Formation after Gastrectomy

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Henry Pitt, MD, Chief Quality Officer of Temple University Health System, and Jennifer T. Higa, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Fox Chase Cancer Center, offered insight to Reuters Health about a JAMA Surgery study on the prevention of gallstone formation following gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Dr. Pitt and a colleague from the Indiana University School of Medicine had written an editorial published on the JAMA Network in response to the study. MD Alert and Medscape picked up the Reuters Health article.