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Proton Pump Inhibitors Raise Fracture Risk In Older Women published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PST
According to an investigation published on bmj.com, hip fractures are 35% more likely to occur in post-menopausal women if they take indigestion medications, known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). This figure rises to 50% if the women are former or current smokers. Globally, PPIs are one of the most prevalent drugs used, and are often used to treat acid reflex and heartburn...
The Leading Cause Of Infection Outbreaks In US Hospitals Is Norovirus published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Norovirus, a pathogen that often causes food poisoning and gastroenteritis, was responsible for 18.2 percent of all infection outbreaks and 65 percent of ward closures in U.S...
Obesity-Related Diseases In Adolescents Improves With Bariatric Surgery Within First Two Years published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Today, about one in five children in the United States are obese. That means that in just one generation alone the number of obese kids in this country has quadrupled...
Indigestion Medications Raise Hip Fracture Risk In Post-menopausal Females published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:00 PST
PPIs (proton pump inhibitors), medications taken for indigestion, can raise the risk of hip fractures by 35% in post-menopausal women, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). The authors added that women who smoke or used to smoke have a 50% higher risk of hip fractures when taking PPIs...
Barrett's Patients Who Smoke Are Twice As Likely To Develop Esophageal Cancer published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Barrett's esophagus (BE) patients who smoke tobacco are at a two-fold increased risk of developing esophageal cancer, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. BE patients who smoke also double their risk for developing advanced precancerous cells...
How Cholera Bacterium Gains A Foothold In The Gut published
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
A team of biologists at the University of York has made an important advance in our understanding of the way cholera attacks the body. The discovery could help scientists target treatments for the globally significant intestinal disease which kills more than 100,000 people every year...
Research Shows Bedwetting Can Be Due To Undiagnosed Constipation published
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Bedwetting isn't always due to problems with the bladder, according to new research by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Constipation is often the culprit; and if it isn't diagnosed, children and their parents must endure an unnecessarily long, costly and difficult quest to cure nighttime wetting...
Live Liver Donations Confirmed As Safe published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
According to Johns Hopkins researchers, individuals who donate a portion of their liver for live transplantation usually recover safely from the procedure and can expect to live long, healthy lives. The study is published in the February issue of the journal Gastroenterology. Dorry L. Segev, M.D., Ph.D...
Researchers Challenge Commonly-Held Beliefs About The Causes Of Diverticulosis published
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
For more than 40 years, scientists and physicians have thought eating a high-fiber diet lowered a person's risk of diverticulosis, a disease of the large intestine in which pouches develop in the colon wall. A new study of more than 2,000 people reveals the opposite may be true...
Discovery Of High Risk Oesophageal Cancer Gene published
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
New research from Queen Mary, University of London has uncovered a gene which plays a key role in the development of oesophageal cancer (cancer of the gullet). The researchers studied families who suffer a rare inherited condition making them highly susceptible to the disease and found that a fault in a single gene was responsible...
Novel Gene Mutations Associated With Bile Duct Cancer Could Lead To Targeted Treatment published
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have identified a new genetic signature associated with bile duct cancer, a usually deadly tumor for which effective treatment currently is limited...
Kidney Failure, Gastrointestinal Bleeding And Dialysis published
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract causes serious health problems - and even early deaths - for many patients with kidney failure, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The findings indicate that greater efforts are needed to prevent and treat upper GI bleeding in these patients...
Regorafenib Does Well In Metastatic Colorectal Trial published
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:00:00 PST
The latest results on Bayer HealthCare's investigational compound regorafenib (BAY 73-4506) from the international, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III CORRECT (Colorectal cancer treated with regorafenib or place after failure of standard therapy) trial have been announced by Bayer HealthCare...
Oesophageal Cancer Gene Found published
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST
UK researchers have found a gene that plays an important part in the development of oesophageal cancer or cancer of the gullet. They announced their news to the press on Thursday. Every year, more than 8,000 people in the UK discover they have oesophageal cancer, and the rates are going up. The disease is more common in the UK than other European countries...
New Advances Aimed At Improving Treatment, Prognosis And Detection Of GI Cancers: 2012 Gastroinstestinal Cancers Symposium published
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
New research into the treatment, prognosis and early detection of gastrointestinal cancers was released in advance of the ninth annual Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium being held January 19-21, 2012, at The Moscone West Building in San Francisco, Calif...
An Easier Way To Remove Gallstones published
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
For more than 100 years, the traditional treatment for the painful growths called gallstones has been removal of the gallbladder, or cholecystectomy. But a new device, patented in China, promises to make removing the entire organ unnecessary...
Esophageal Cancer May Be Caused By Migration Of Cancer-Causing Stomach Cells published
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
A new study is providing clues that may answer a decades-old question about the cells that give rise to a particularly lethal form of esophageal cancer...
Two Nature Papers Report Quantitative Imaging Application To Gut And Ear Cells published
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
From tracking activities within bacteria to creating images of molecules that make up human hair, several experiments have already demonstrated the unique abilities of the revolutionary imaging technique called multi-isotope imaging mass spectometry, or MIMS, developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)...
Appendicitis Perforation Rates Are A Misleading Indicator Of Health Care Access published
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:00 PST
A study published in the January issue of the Archives of Surgery suggests that using appendicitis perforations rates as an indicator of access to healthcare is misleading and inappropriate. The research finds that only a small percentage of the disparity in rates of perforation between minority and white children can be explained by their socioeconomic or health insurance status...
Less Risk Of Inflammatory Bowel Disease In Warmer Climates published
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PST
A long-term U.S. study published online in GUT has shown that living in sunnier climates may lower the chances of developing inflammatory bowel disease, especially in those aged 30 years or over. The researchers' findings, which support earlier European research, could potentially lead to new therapies and preventive measures...
Gut Bacteria Influence The Severity Of Heart Attacks In Rats published
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
New research published online in the FASEB Journal suggests that the types and levels of bacteria in the intestines may be used to predict a person's likelihood of having a heart attack, and that manipulating these organisms may help reduce heart attack risk. This discovery may lead to new diagnostic tests and therapies that physicians use to prevent and treat heart attacks...
By Analyzing How Multiple Microbial Species Act In Concert In The Gut, Researchers See Different Patterns In Lean And Obese People published
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
For the first time, researchers have analyzed the multitude of microorganisms residing in the human gut as a complex, integrated biological system, rather than a set of separate species. Their approach has revealed patterns that correspond with excess body weight. The collection of microbes inside the human gut is a bustling network of genetic interplays and energy use...
Review Confirms Benefits Of More Roughage In The Diet published
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
We should all be eating more dietary fiber to improve our health - that's the message from a health review by scientists in India...
Serious Foodborne Illness May One Day Be Prevented By A Pill published
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
Modified probiotics, the beneficial bacteria touted for their role in digestive health, could one day decrease the risk of Listeria infection in people with susceptible immune systems, according to Purdue University research...
Association Between Marijuana Use And Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome In Young Males published
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Researchers have found clear associations between marijuana use in young males and cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), where patients experience episodes of vomiting separated by symptom free intervals. The study, published in the January issue of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, looked at 226 patients seen at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, New York, USA, over a 13-year period...
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