NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After endoscopic balloon dilation of intestinal strictures in children with Crohn’s disease, an intralesional injection of triamcinolone reduces the rate of recurrence, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Following endoscopic sphincterotomy, large bile duct stones can be managed as successfully with large balloon dilation as with traditional mechanical lithotripsy, and with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Updated guidelines compiled by an expert panel of cardiologists and gastroenterologists address the issue of a possible drug interaction between proton pump inhibitors…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients make sequential position changes during colonoscopy examinations, instead of remaining in the left lateral position, the improvement in luminal distension leads…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined multichannel intraluminal impedance monitoring (MII) and pH monitoring in the esophagus detects gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in children more accurately than pH monitoring…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About 1% of outpatient endoscopies require a subsequent visit to the emergency room for related complications, but fewer than a quarter of these…
Diana Ramos, MD, MPH, delegate of the AMA Minority Affairs Consortium, talks at the annual AMA delegation about the importance of simplifying labeling to decrease obesity. Standards for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The reported sensitivity of numerous blood-based markers proposed for the early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) are probably higher than might be expected…
Joseph Ramagnulo, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Associate Professor Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses abdominal pain that cannot be diagnosed and a study he is coducting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding the anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody bevacizumab to state-of-the-art adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II or III colon cancer does not improve disease-free survival, according…