Taking the antiarrythmic drug amiodarone with the hepatitis C antiviral drugs ledipasvir and sofosbuvir, or with sofosbuvir plus another direct-acting... More »
Gastrointestinal dysfunction commonly affected patients with Parkinson’s disease, atypical parkinsonism, and vascular parkinsonism, and several GI s... More »
Humans can host up to 6 pounds of microbes in our gut alone. We comprise about 10 trillion human cells – they comprise 100 trillion bacterial cells.... More »
Mongersen, an oral SMAD7 antisense oligonucleotide formulated to deliver its active ingredient primarily into the lumen of the terminal ileum and righ... More »
For patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a bile acid derivative that acts on a nuclear receptor reduced liver fat and fibrosis, but pati... More »
The well-documented protective effect that aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs exert against colon cancer has been linked to three geneti... More »
In the realm of screening routinely offered to our patients in primary care, colon cancer screening stands with cervical cancer screening with a grade... More »
Two different statistical models found that novel therapies for chronic HCV infection, particularly the combination of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir, are ... More »
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Acute renal failure occurred postoperatively in one-third of patients who underwent endograft explantation after endovascular ab... More »
The risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients developing deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism was 1.98-fold and 1.80-fold higher, respe... More »