diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 2af2051..bdd0471 100755
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: naryn
 Title: Native Access Medical Record Retriever for High Yield Analytics
-Version: 2.6.26
+Version: 2.6.27
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Misha", "Hoichman", , "misha@hoichman.com", role = "aut"),
     person("Aviezer", "Lifshitz", , "aviezer.lifshitz@weizmann.ac.il", role = c("aut", "cre")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f580dbb..3650b63 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# naryn 2.6.27
+
+* Fix: do not truncate expression names in `emr_extract` when `tidy=TRUE`.
+
 # naryn 2.6.26 
 
 * Added `emr_time2posix`, `emr_posix2time`,  `emr_time2char` and `emr_char2time` functions.
diff --git a/src/NRExtract.cpp b/src/NRExtract.cpp
index 1d8c779..c7be0a1 100755
--- a/src/NRExtract.cpp
+++ b/src/NRExtract.cpp
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ SEXP C_emr_extract(SEXP _exprs, SEXP _names, SEXP _tidy, SEXP _sort, SEXP _stime
 
             for (unsigned iexpr = 0; iexpr < (unsigned)num_exprs; ++iexpr) {
                 if (isNull(_names))
-                    SET_STRING_ELT(rexprs, iexpr, mkChar(get_bound_colname(CHAR(STRING_ELT(_exprs, iexpr))).c_str()));
+                    SET_STRING_ELT(rexprs, iexpr, STRING_ELT(_exprs, iexpr));
                 else
                     SET_STRING_ELT(rexprs, iexpr, STRING_ELT(_names, iexpr));
             }