Mitchel is a reporter for MDedge based in the Philadelphia area. He started with the company in 1992, when it was International Medical News Group (IMNG), and has since covered a range of medical specialties. Mitchel trained as a virologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, and then worked briefly as a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital before pivoting to journalism as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 1980. His first reporting job was with Science Digest magazine, and from the mid-1980s to early-1990s he was a reporter with Medical World News. @mitchelzoler
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Replacement meals boost nutrient intake by pregnant women with obesity
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Bariatric surgery tied to fewer cerebrovascular events
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Genetic test stratified AFib patients with low CHA2DS2-VASc scores
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New heart failure trial data presage guideline revisions
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DAPA-HF: Dapagliflozin benefits regardless of age, HF severity
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Colchicine cut post-MI CVD events
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