HOSP || Gastroenterology

Oral PPI therapy gets nod following bleeding ulcer repair

Posted on: 13/05/2014 - 18:45

CHICAGO – Oral proton pump inhibitor therapy on the medical ward following endoscopic treatment of patients with a bleeding ulcer is equally effective as the current guideline-recommended practice of...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

What puts C. diff patients at greater readmission risk?

Posted on: 09/05/2014 - 21:35

CHICAGO – More and more elderly people are getting infected with Clostridium difficile, and many get readmitted to the hospital after initial treatment for this potentially deadly diarrheal...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

What puts C. diff patients at greater readmission risk?

Posted on: 09/05/2014 - 21:35

CHICAGO – More and more elderly people are getting infected with Clostridium difficile, and many get readmitted to the hospital after initial treatment for this potentially deadly diarrheal...

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

What puts C. diff patients at greater readmission risk?

Posted on: 09/05/2014 - 21:35

CHICAGO – More and more elderly people are getting infected with Clostridium difficile, and many get readmitted to the hospital after initial treatment for this potentially deadly diarrheal...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Vibrating pill may shake up constipation treatment

Posted on: 08/05/2014 - 21:35

CHICAGO – A newly developed oral capsule may offer chronic idiopathic constipation patients a novel, nonpharmacologic approach to treatment: It vibrates as it moves through the intestines. In a...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: GERD may boost increase heart attack risk

Posted on: 08/05/2014 - 16:45

CHICAGO – Gastroesophageal reflux disease may constitute a heretofore unrecognized risk factor for coronary heart disease. In a nationwide case-control study of prodigious proportions,...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: GERD may boost increase heart attack risk

Posted on: 08/05/2014 - 16:45

CHICAGO – Gastroesophageal reflux disease may constitute a heretofore unrecognized risk factor for coronary heart disease. In a nationwide case-control study of prodigious proportions,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Oral drugs replacing interferon for hepatitis C

Posted on: 07/05/2014 - 20:10

CHICAGO – Two old workhorses in the treatment of hepatitis C are being put out to pasture – interferon and ribavirin. Newer, less toxic oral regimens can cure more patients with fewer side effects,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Oral drugs replacing interferon for hepatitis C

Posted on: 07/05/2014 - 20:10

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

VIDEO – ‘Three D’ for hepatitis C called ‘revolutionary’

Posted on: 07/05/2014 - 19:00

CHICAGO – An experimental triple-drug regimen with or without ribavirin cured more than 90% of 724 previously untreated patients with hepatitis C genotype 1 who did not have cirrhosis. And it was...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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