Digestive Health News

Five Reasons Not to Put Off a Colonoscopy

If you’ve been avoiding, or even dreading, scheduling a colonoscopy, it’s time to give the important cancer screening…    

New therapeutic target to combat liver cancer discovered

Researchers at CIC Biogune, the Cooperative Centre for Research into Biosciences and led by Dr. Maria Luz Martinez…    

GERD in Infants and Children

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) does not close properly and stomach contents…    

An easier way to remove gallstones

For more than 100 years, the traditional treatment for the painful growths called gallstones has been removal of…    

Radical Liver Surgery, West Coast First

A team led by Alan Hemming, MD, transplant surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, has successfully performed…    

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Emerges as a Global Disease

The incidence and prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are increasing with time and in different regions around…    

Feeling Stressed? Why You May Feel It in Your Gut

From butterflies in your stomach before giving a big speech at work to an ulcer that acts up…    

Rare genetic disorder provides clues to development of the pancreas

A rare genetic disorder has given researchers at the University of Exeter a surprising insight into how the…    

Genes modify the risk of liver disease among alcoholics

It has been widely observed that only a small percentage of alcoholics develop cirrhosis of the liver, the…    

Fatty livers are in overdrive

When our livers become loaded with fat, it isn’t because they are slacking. A new study of human…    

Use of opioid painkillers for abdominal pain has more than doubled

Across U.S. outpatient clinics between 1997 and 2008, opioid prescriptions for chronic abdominal pain more than doubled, according…    

Dendritic cells protect against acute pancreatitis

NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have discovered the novel protective role dendritic cells play in the pancreas. The…    

Psychological factors affect IBS patients’ interpretation of symptom severity

A patient’s viewpoint of the severity of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms can be influenced not only by…    

Severe alcoholic hepatitis: An effective combination of 2 treatments

Acute alcoholic hepatitis is one of the most serious forms of alcoholic liver disease, affecting individuals with chronic…    

The Economic Cost of Advanced Liver Disease

Health care costs for hepatitis C patients with end-stage liver disease are nearly 2.5 times higher than those…    

Live liver donors have troubles years later: study

People who have donated part of their liver for transplant can experience physical and psychological complications years after…    

Psychological traumas experienced over lifetime linked to adult irritable bowel syndrome

The psychological and emotional traumas experienced over a lifetime—such as the death of a loved one, divorce, natural…    

Probiotics effective in combating antibiotic-associated diarrhea

In four different studies presented at the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington,…    

Study finds physicians show bias when diagnosing stomach problems

Patients who complain of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms often face a diagnosis of either gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)…    

Acid-Suppressing Drugs Being Over Prescribed in Infants

Frequent spitting up, irritability and unexplained crying in infants are often very distressing to parents. Physicians frequently prescribe…