Managing acid reflux involves lifestyle adjustments to reduce symptoms and prevent discomfort. Strengthening the lower esophageal sphincter can help prevent acid from rising into the esophagus. Avoiding smoking,…
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the colon and rectum, causing symptoms like abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, rectal urgency, and fatigue. Sanjay Murthy, MD,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For reversal of type 1 hepatorenal syndrome, treatment with noradrenaline seems to work as well as terlipressin and is a lot less expensive,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early, aggressive use of azathioprine is associated with reduced surgery rates in patients with Crohn’s disease, researchers from Hungary report in the January…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined pegylated interferon and ribavirin are effective in treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 6 infection, researchers report in a January…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The effectiveness of gastric variceal obturation for controlling gastric variceal bleeding is not improved with the addition of non-selective beta-blocker therapy, a Taiwanese…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a phase 2 study of maintenance therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer, adding enzastaurin to bevacizumab plus bolus and infusional 5-fluorouracil-leucovorin (LV5FU2) did…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infusion of bone marrow-derived stem cells after selective portal vein embolization (PVE) was associated with better outcomes of extended right hepatectomy in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients requiring chronic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) treatment develop fewer gastric or duodenal ulcers if they take ibuprofen with high-dose famotidine in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cirrhosis and hepatitis are associated with the occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with diabetes, and hepatitis C is of particular importance,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) The first report of 10-year outcomes of hepatocellular carcinoma treated by percutaneous radio frequency ablation (RFA) indicates that about 1 in 4 patients survive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A large multicenter study confirms that placement of self-expanding metal stents in the colon in cases of malignant colorectal obstruction restores bowel transit…
