The discovery of a strain of bacteria shown to reduce inflammation in the intestine caused by irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) could bring relief to millions of sufferers after being turned into an innovative natural food supplement by University of Bristol biotech spin-out Ferryx.
Ochsner Health has medical experts on standby to discuss Multiple Sclerosis, 3rd anniversary of COVID, Colorectal Cancers, and International Women’s Day
Colorectal cancer is swiftly shifting to more advanced disease and younger individuals according to Colorectal Cancer Statistics 2023, a new report on cancer facts and trends by the American Cancer Society.
Dana-Farber is leading two studies to investigate novel treatment options for colorectal cancer patients. One study is looking at next-generation immunotherapy and the other is investigating CAR-T therapy in colorectal cancer.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States. Although highly treatable and preventable, about 140,000 Americans are diagnosed and more than 50,000 people die each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The United States Preventative Task Force recommends starting age of screening from 50 to 45.
The GI Quality Improvement Consortium, Inc. a national gastroenterology-focused clinical registry jointly sponsored by the American College of Gastroenterology and American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy will be moving to a powerful new technology platform powered by Health Catalyst, Inc.
For the past few decades, Dr. Iwao Ojima has been working in his Stony Brook University Department of Chemistry Laboratory to develop next-generation anti-cancer agents. One of these agents – a second-generation taxane conjugate (called NE-DHA-SBT-1214) – has shown great promise against solid tumors – particularly against colorectal cancer.
Expert from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey & RWJBarnabas Health discusses what young people should know about colorectal cancer as the disease continues to rise in those ranging in age from mid-20's to 50's.
In APL Bioengineering, researchers describe how gut-on-a-chip devices can bridge lab models and human biology. Modeling the microbiome is particularly difficult because of its unique environmental conditions, but through creative design, gut-on-a-chip devices can simulate many of these properties, such as the gut’s anaerobic atmosphere, fluid flow, and pulses of contraction/relaxation. Growing intestinal cells in this environment means that they more closely resemble human biology compared to standard laboratory cell cultures.
James East, M.D., spends his days skillfully examining people’s colons, searching for and snaring away suspicious polyps that might one day turn into cancer. A gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London, he says the ability to identify cancer risks and eliminate them on the spot during a colonoscopy is one of the most satisfying parts of his chosen profession.
For March, National Nutrition Month, an annual campaign by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Meatless Monday team is sharing tips and insights on how to improve gut health with plant-based foods.
لندن - يقضي جيمس إيست، دكتور الطب، أيامه في فحص قولون الناس بمهارة، والبحث عن السلائل المشبوهة التي قد تتحول يومًا ما إلى سرطان، والتخلص منها. يقول طبيب الجهاز الهضمي في مايو كلينك للرعاية الصحية في لندن، إن القدرة على التعرف على مخاطر الإصابة بالسرطان والقضاء عليها في الحال خلال تنظير القولون من الأمور المجزية للغاية في مهنته التي اختارها.
In a new study using mice, University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers were able to tease apart the molecular components involved in abdominal aneurysms to better understand how and why they form.
People who regularly use laxatives, a common treatment for constipation, may have more than a 50% increased risk of developing dementia than people who do not use laxatives, according to a study published in the February 22, 2023, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers also found people who used only osmotic laxatives, a type of laxative that attracts water to the colon to soften stool, had an even greater risk. Other types of laxatives are bulk-forming, stool-softening, and stimulating. The study does not prove that laxatives cause dementia. It only shows an association.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back. Recent developments include a new understanding of how HPV drives cancer development, a combination therapy to overcome treatment resistance in mantle cell lymphoma, novel insights into memory T cell formation and potential therapeutic strategies for brain cancers, improved survival outcomes for metastatic colorectal cancer, targeting myeloperoxidase to improve immunotherapy responses in melanoma, and preclinical results of a combination therapy that could effectively treat a subset of acute myeloid leukemia.
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Study aims to adjust the Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index to better reflect disease activity in Hispanic children. New research at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is aiming to improve the accuracy of the Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index (PUCAI) for Hispanic children. A simple questionnaire that’s widely used to monitor disease activity, the PUCAI tool has been well-studied and validated—but mainly in white populations.
Changing the structure of a dietary fibre commonly found in a range of food products has been found to promote healthy gut bacteria and reduce gas formation, a finding that could help people with intolerances to fibre and irritable bowel conditions.
An approved drug for chronic constipation also relieves the pain associated with that condition. New research demonstrates that the drug’s two actions can be separated biologically — a finding that may offer ways to precisely target visceral organ pain syndromes beyond constipation.
عزيزتي مايو كلينيك: أنا جدة لثلاثة أحفاد رائعين. حفيدي الأكبر يعاني من عدم تحمل اللاكتوز. وفي الفترة الأخيرة، تم تشخيص حفيدي الأصغر بحساسية الفول السوداني. ما الفرق بين عدم تحمل الطعام وحساسية الطعام؟
الإجابة: تختلف الحياة على مائدة العشاء لآلاف الأشخاص في الولايات المتحدة المصابين بأحد أنواع حساسية الطعام. تظهر الدراسات الحديثة أن ما يقرب من 5% من الأطفال دون سن الخامسة، و3% من البالغين يعانون من أنواع حساسية الطعام. يتراوح انتشار حساسية الطعام في جميع أنحاء العالم من 1.1% إلى 10.8%.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: Sou avó de três netos maravilhosos. Meu neto mais velho é intolerante à lactose. Recentemente, meu neto mais novo foi diagnosticado com alergia a amendoim. Qual é a diferença entre intolerância e alergia alimentar?
RESPOSTA: A rotina à mesa de jantar é diferente para milhares de pessoas nos Estados Unidos que têm alguma alergia alimentar.
Soy abuela de tres grandiosos nietos. Mi nieto mayor tiene intolerancia a la lactosa. Hace poco, a mi nieto menor le diagnosticaron alergia al cacahuate (maní). ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre la intolerancia y la alergia alimentaria?
A $20 million gift from Andrea and Donald Goodman and Renee and Meyer Luskin will fund a new center at UCLA focused on the microbiome and its effect on health.
Metal oxide nanoparticles – commonly used as food coloring and anti-caking agents in the commercial ingredients industry – may damage parts of the human intestine, according to new research by Cornell and Binghamton University scientists.
In a study published in Nature Electronics, Khalil B. Ramadi, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, revealed that he and a team of collaborators at MIT and Caltech have developed a tiny pill-like electromagnetic device that, once swallowed, could provide medical professionals a diagnostic window into the inner workings of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
In a large-scale nationwide study, investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have confirmed that rates of pancreatic cancer are rising—and are rising faster among younger women, particularly Black women, than among men of the same age. Their work was published today in the peer-reviewed journal Gastroenterology.
The February issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology features a new ACG Clinical Guideline on Acute Lower GI Bleeding, a common reason for hospitalization in digestive diseases, which can be challenging to assess and triage.
In the journal Gastroenterology, researchers from University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland publish a review of studies about the microbiome's role in disease and discuss data from clinical trials involving individuals with digestive issues and Crohn's disease treated with a probiotic formulation. Results showed the formulation reduced severity and frequency of overall GI symptoms and positively modulated specific symptoms.
Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine were awarded a $2.9 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to spend the next five years collecting and analyzing the genetic data of more than 3,000 Hispanic individuals, to better understand IBD in that community.
In a new study using a rat model of Crohn’s disease, a biodegradable hydrogel composite loaded with stem cells, developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, in a collaborative effort with the Whiting School of Engineering, has shown significant success in treating perianal fistulas (PAF) — one of the many complications of Crohn’s disease.
UC San Diego Health’s gastroenterology endoscopy program has been recognized as a leader in quality and safety by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), the leading national gastrointestinal endoscopy medical society.
The largest study to date of patients who have had surgery for chronic pancreatitis with follow-up of six years or longer has found that about two-thirds survive after 10 years. However, more than one-fourth of these patients were still using opioids daily for pain.
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is the most common of a group of around 50 rare diseases of the white matter of the brain, the so-called leukodystrophies.
People with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have lower bacterial diversity in the intestine than do healthy people, according to a team of Korean investigators.
UC San Diego researchers describe how pancreatic cancer stem cells leverage a protein in a family of proteins that normally suppress tumors to instead do the opposite, boosting their resistance to conventional treatments and spurring growth.
Non-Hispanic Black adults more frequently experience delays in receiving an appendicitis diagnosis in hospital emergency departments, putting them at a higher likelihood of perforated appendicitis and subsequent post-surgical infections, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Researchers studied human colon cancer tissue samples and animal models and found that exposure to salmonella was linked with colon cancers that developed earlier and grew larger.
On Friday, Jan 13, at 8:30 a.m., RUSH leaders and U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin officially unveiled the Joan and Paul Rubschlager Building and explained how the 10-story, $450 million outpatient facility embodies the future of health care: convenient, life-saving care delivered in an outpatient setting for cancer, neuroscience and digestive diseases patients.
A paper posted online by JCO Precision Oncology reports that a molecular tumor board program has largely fulfilled expectations, providing expert treatment guidance for more than 500 patients over the six-month evaluation period and identifying clinical trials appropriate for the majority of them. Overall, the team has reviewed test results for more than 2,700 patients to date. The findings suggest that the program can be a model for other cancer centers.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a difficult disease to treat, characterized by chronic abdominal pain related to bowel movements, of which there are four types: diarrheal, constipation, mixed, and unclassifiable.