IMN || Gastroenterology

Biomarker correlates with pancreatic cancer severity

Posted on: 29/04/2015 - 22:12

HOUSTON – A circulating biomarker has the potential to identify metastatic pancreatic cancer and may be able to predict prognosis, investigators sai... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Alcoholic hepatitis: Pentoxifylline, prednisolone don’t improve survival

Posted on: 22/04/2015 - 22:00

Neither pentoxifylline nor prednisolone reduced 28-day mortality, 90-day mortality, or 1-year mortality among adults with alcoholic hepatitis in a mul... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

FDA adds warnings to simeprevir label

Posted on: 16/04/2015 - 19:29

The Food and Drug Administration has approved changes to the warnings and precautions section of the package insert for Olysio (simeprevir). One addi... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Insulin glargine reduced liver fat burden more than liraglutide

Posted on: 09/04/2015 - 21:55

Insulin glargine therapy was associated with significantly greater reductions in liver fat burden in patients with type 2 diabetes than was liraglutid... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Sovaldi’s high price limits drug access

Posted on: 09/04/2015 - 21:18

The high cost of the hepatitis C treatment Sovaldi has caused a steep increase in Medicaid spending, though access to the drug remains extremely limit... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Stem cells may provide long-term relief from Crohn’s fistula

Posted on: 09/04/2015 - 16:15

Three-quarters of Crohn’s fistula patients who were treated with one or two doses of autologous mesenchymal stem cells derived from adipose tissue a... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Antihistamine drug chlorcyclizine shows promise for treating HCV

Posted on: 08/04/2015 - 19:00

Repurposing the antihistamine medication chlorcyclizine may be a viable option in the treatment of hepatitis C, reported Dr. Shanshan He and coauthors... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

All-oral simeprevir-sofosbuvir beat interferon-based regimen for HCV with compensated cirrhosis

Posted on: 01/04/2015 - 08:01

Patients with compensated cirrhosis and chronic genotype 1 hepatitis C virus infections were significantly more likely to clear their infections and h... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Four genes linked to phenotypic traits of Crohn’s disease

Posted on: 01/04/2015 - 08:01

Four gene loci in patients with Crohn’s disease were significantly linked with phenotypic traits such as erythema nodosum or having a complicated or... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Two-thirds of endoscopists met colonic adenoma detection benchmarks

Posted on: 01/04/2015 - 08:01

Two-thirds of endoscopists met national quality benchmarks for detecting colonic adenomas, but detection rates varied eightfold among male patients an... More »

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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