CHICAGO – Many traditional and novel biochemical cardiac risk markers show dramatic and stable improvements following sleeve gastrectomy, a prospective, observational study shows.
C-reactive protein...
Cirrhosis nearly doubled among Veterans Affairs patients between 2001 and 2013, while cirrhosis-related mortality rose by about 50% and deaths from hepatocellular carcinoma almost tripled,...
All U.S. manufacturers of duodenoscopes have been ordered to undertake postmarket surveillance studies of their devices to better determine how they are used in the real world, according to a press...
The cumulative rates of anal, colorectal, and liver cancers are increasing among HIV-positive patients, mainly because in the antiretroviral era they are living long enough for these malignancies to...
Anti-TNF therapy for inflammatory bowel disease appears to double the relative risk of developing central demyelinating disease, though the absolute risk remains small, according to a preliminary...
Among patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), narrow-band imaging colonoscopy with targeted and segmental biopsy specimens was faster, needed fewer specimens, and was as sensitive for detecting...
Risk of interval colorectal cancer (CRC) more than doubled when average withdrawal times during routine colonoscopy were less than 6 minutes, investigators reported in the October issue of...
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were about five to eight times more likely to die after emergency intestinal resection as opposed to elective surgery, a large meta-analysis...
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) board has approved $83 million in funding for research on hepatitis C virus and other diseases, the group announced Sept. 28.
Two of the 26...
