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Ig Nobel 24/7 Speech: Smartphone Use on the Toilet vs. Hemorrhoids

Dr. Trisha Pasricha and her laboratory at the Gut-Brain Institute were recently honored by giving a 24/7 speech at the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony for research findings examining smartphone use and its potential risk for hemorrhoids. The Ig Nobel Prize is known for its comical yet meaningful...

Celebrating 10 Years

The Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research was officially launched on November 1, 2015. In tandem with the recruitment of Dr. Robert Gerszten, Dr. Peter Zimetbaum hired Dr. Robert Yeh (Director) to start a new center focused on outcomes research supported by a generous gift from...

Purchasing for quality chronic care: summary report

"...Operationalizing broad recommendations (such as not paying for poor quality care) has, in practice, resulted in policies with unintended consequences that can negatively affect patients..." ( Association of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries...