HOUSTON – A circulating biomarker has the potential to identify metastatic pancreatic cancer and may be able to predict prognosis, investigators sai... More »
Neither pentoxifylline nor prednisolone reduced 28-day mortality, 90-day mortality, or 1-year mortality among adults with alcoholic hepatitis in a mul... More »
The Food and Drug Administration has approved changes to the warnings and precautions section of the package insert for Olysio (simeprevir).
One addi... More »
Insulin glargine therapy was associated with significantly greater reductions in liver fat burden in patients with type 2 diabetes than was liraglutid... More »
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 »
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 »
Repurposing the antihistamine medication chlorcyclizine may be a viable option in the treatment of hepatitis C, reported Dr. Shanshan He and coauthors... More »
Two-thirds of endoscopists met national quality benchmarks for detecting colonic adenomas, but detection rates varied eightfold among male patients an... More »
Women with Crohn’s disease had about a 53% greater risk of developing cervical cancer compared with controls, and women with inflammatory bowel dise... More »
Women with Crohn’s disease had about a 53% greater risk of developing cervical cancer compared with controls, and women with inflammatory bowel dise... More »