FPN || Digestive Disorders

Obeticholic acid shows promise in primary biliary cirrhosis

Posted on: 15/04/2014 - 15:35

LONDON – Obeticholic acid significantly reduced key liver enzyme and bilirubin levels in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis in a phase III trial. Results of <link...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Validated patient-reported outcomes needed for inflammatory bowel disease

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 18:01

Experts have signaled a need for the development of validated patient-reported outcomes for inflammatory bowel disease based on Food and Drug Administration guidance, in the face of a move toward the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Federal government releases updated viral hepatitis action plan

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 17:15

The federal government on April 4 published a 3-year update of its viral hepatitis action plan that...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Physician’s adenoma detection rate predicts patient’s cancer risk

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 22:00

A physician’s adenoma detection rate – the proportion of screening colonoscopies he or she performs that detect at least one histologically confirmed colorectal adenoma or adenocarcinoma – strongly...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Physician’s adenoma detection rate predicts patient’s cancer risk

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 22:00

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Chronic pancreatitis life expectancy dramatically decreased

Posted on: 01/04/2014 - 05:01

Patients with chronic pancreatitis have a life expectancy that is roughly 8 years shorter than that of the general population. Indeed, the "beyond a doubt" finding of a mortality rate up...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Liver histology crucial at Wilson disease diagnosis

Posted on: 01/04/2014 - 05:01

Wilson disease patients without cirrhosis at diagnosis generally have good long-term prognoses, but the presence of cirrhosis on diagnosis of this rare condition necessitates transplant in up to 13%...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Better survival with aspirin in HLA class 1 antigen-positive cancers only

Posted on: 31/03/2014 - 21:00

Aspirin therapy improves survival in patients whose colon cancers express HLA class 1 antigen, but not in those whose tumors have lost that expression, investigators reported online March 31 in JAMA...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Better survival with aspirin in HLA class 1 antigen-positive cancers only

Posted on: 31/03/2014 - 21:00

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Noninvasive DNA test topped FIT at finding colorectal cancer

Posted on: 19/03/2014 - 20:30

A noninvasive, multitarget stool DNA test detected significantly more cancer than did a fecal immunochemical test in people at average risk for colorectal cancer, but had greater false positive...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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