CHICAGO – Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is one of the most common complaints seen in pediatric and pediatric gastroenterology practices – but does that pediatric condition put patients at risk for...
Patients with chronic hepatitis C who develop cirrhosis with severe portal hypertension are at greater risk of progressing to liver decompensation within the first 5 years of treatment, even if they...
LONDON – Celecoxib was associated with very low cardiovascular event rates, and its use posed no more risk than other painkillers commonly used to treat elderly individuals with arthritic conditions...
PARK CITY, UTAH – Dr. John J. Zone first began to study gluten sensitivity in 1977, an interest that left some of his clinician colleagues wondering why.
“Everybody told me I was crazy – that this...
Consuming the equivalent of two slices of bread a day for just 1 week significantly worsened abdominal pain, bloating, foggy mind, depression, and aphthous stomatitis among patients with...
Patients with Barrett’s esophagus have about a 0.2% annual chance of developing esophageal adenocarcinoma in the 5 years after initial diagnosis, but the likelihood then rises so that about 9% of all...
Combination treatment with ledipasvir, sofosbuvir, and ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection led to sustained viral response (SVR) rates of 86%-89% among nontransplanted patients and...
Only half of Helicobacter pylori strains were pansusceptible, and almost one in three was resistant to at least one antibiotic, according to a single-center study of U.S. veterans published in...
Alcohol and marijuana use is common in youth with chronic disease, and alcohol use is associated with nonadherence to treatment, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.
Approximately 1 in...
Only 21% of liver transplantation patients who received ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) after surgery developed recurrent primary biliary cirrhosis, compared with 62% of patients who did not receive the...
