A vegetarian diet reduced the risk of colorectal cancer, according to an analysis of a large, prospective study.
Among 77,659 participants in the Adv... More »
ORLANDO, FLA. – Biologics used to treat inflammatory bowel disease could be more effective if they were used earlier in patients with these conditio... More »
The new ASCEND trial will examine whether primary care physicians can use a new antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C virus as effectively as special... More »
Infliximab caused liver injury in 8.3% of treated patients in a prospective study, exceeding rates for other tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonists, ... More »
High levels of psychological stress more than doubled the odds of peptic ulcers, and the link remained statistically significant even after controllin... More »
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the antibacterial drug ceftazidime- avibactam (Avycaz) on Feb. 25 for complicated intra-abdominal infect... More »
The American College of Surgeons’ NSQIP surgical risk calculator was effective for evaluating patients at average surgical risk undergoing laparosco... More »
For asymptomatic neoplastic pancreatic cysts discovered incidentally on abdominal imaging, surgery is warranted only if both a solid component and a d... More »
The estimated 453,000 infections and 29,300 deaths caused by Clostridium difficile in the United States in 2011 underline the importance of appropriat... More »
The Clostridium difficile bacterium resulted in nearly 500,000 infections and 29,000 deaths in the United States in 2011, Dr. Fernanda C. Lessa and he... More »
