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A new clinical image from The New England Journal of Medicine presents “An 87-year-old woman with severe retrosternal pain and intermittent dysphagia … Endoscopy revealed a pronounced helical configuration of the esophageal lumen … Because this patient had normal relaxation of the...
Previous research has shown that Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric adenocarcinoma is dependent on the expression of bacterial oncoprotein CagA. A new study in Infection and Immunity investigates the association between a high salt diet and gastric cancer. Gerbils were infected with a wild-type (WT)...
A new study in BMC Medicine determines whether depression or the use of anti-depressants alters the risk of developing Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). “The population-based rate of CDI in older Americans was 282.9/100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval (CI)) 226.3 to 339.5) for individuals...