On the morning of my test, I cook up a bowl of oat bran (21 percent of my recommended daily fiber), top it with dried fruits and nuts, down it with a big cup of black tea, and set my gut timer ticking. Within a few minutes, my bowels call me to business. That was on January 16, and I was a little more nervous about this process than usual. I had just received a kit from the startup company Viome, whose goal is to “digitize, decode, and decipher human biology to prevent, treat, and cure chronic diseases and cancer,”…
Author: Praveen Suthrum
The late 1990s ushered in the era of social media, which would later go on to transform healthcare communication and education. Patients who once passively absorbed health information now actively seek it out, often on discussion forums of common social media platforms.
When we eat food, our gut somehow senses its presence to begin shifting it along our digestive tract, but the question has always been – how? Now, new Flinders University research using both human gut samples and mice has discovered that a touch-sensing protein that was a focus of a 2021 Nobel Prize, called Piezo2, is not just in our fingers, but also in our gut, with its presence likely playing a key role in constipation. This work has recently been published in the leading international journal Gastroenterology.
Originally published by our sister publication, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News Klebsiella pneumoniae, which is found in higher concentrations in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, enhances the growth of Clostridioides difficile and worsens colonic inflammation in the presence of C. difficile infection, according to new research. “When C. difficile infection is superimposed on colitis, it synergistically worsens both conditions,” researcher Taylor Ticer, a PhD candidate at the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, and colleagues reported at the 2022 Crohn’s and Colitis Congress (Inflamm Bowel Dis 2022;28[suppl 1]:S69).
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Olympus, a global technology leader in endoscopy, offers a reminder about the importance of screening for colorectal cancer, which may be preventable and treatable when found early. March marks Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and Olympus encourages people to talk to their doctors about getting screened. The United States Preventive Services Task Force last year lowered the recommended age for colorectal cancer screenings for adults from 50 to 45.1 The Multi-Society Taskforce, which includes the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), announced its full…
FROM CROHN’S & COLITIS CONGRESS As the saying goes: “Age is a case of mind over matter: If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” But for older patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the clinicians who treat them, it’s hard to ignore the complications that aging can bring, such as comorbidities, functional limitations, and polypharmacy, said Nana Bernasko, CRNP, DNP, WHNP-BC, a nurse practitioner in the department of gastroenterology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.
Here are 10 physicians who specialize in gastroenterology to know: Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Physicians are listed in alphabetical order. To nominate a physician for future lists, please contact Riz Hatton at rhatton@beckershealthcare.com. Maisa Abdalla, MD. Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center. Dr. Abdalla has served as an assistant professor of medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center since 2016. She practices there and at Riverside University Health System in Moreno Valley, Calif. She aims to improve accessibility and quality in patient care.
An intensive multidisciplinary lifestyle management program that results in significant weight loss reduces steatosis and fibrosis in pediatric patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a new study from Belgium. Secondary to increasing rates of obesity in children and adolescents, pediatric NAFLD is now the most common pediatric liver disease worldwide, according to investigator Sander Lefere, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Ghent University, in Belgium.
American tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) has made a major push into artificial intelligence this week, closing its deal to acquire AI pioneer Nuance Communications Inc. The buyout will cost Microsoft $19.7 billion in an all-cash deal, and the company will take all of Nuance’s net debt as part of the terms.
March 8, 2022 — Exact Sciences is joining forces with journalist and colorectal cancer advocate Katie Couric for a national marketing and social media campaign to raise awareness for colorectal cancer screening.