Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who turned 50 in late 2017, has followed The American College of Gastroenterology Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines and received his first colonoscopy. As the second...
A recent study of 25,000 patients in the Veterans Affair (VA) health system confirmed that colonoscopies reduce Colorectal Cancer death rates, a finding that confirms the long-held position of The...
Is it a bug or is it IBS? That’s a fundamental question that many people suffering from GI distress ask themselves and it varies from person to person. For those...
Patients with IBS experienced improved symptoms when administering their own cognitive behavior therapy, as compared to patients who received similar therapy in a moderately monitored or professionally structured environment. Those...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS, is more common among women than men and a recent study offers a potential explanation for this connection. While the study offers early-stage information on...
Increasingly, the benefits of central neuromodulators (antidepressants, antipsychotics and other targeted drugs) in treating functional GI disorders (FGIDs) that are accompanied by chronic pain and pronounced symptoms, such as Irritable...
A recent study of Swedish men, beginning in their late teens and stretching the next 40 years, found that those who began drinking in their early years were more likely...
Beginning in the early 1990s, patients with gastroparesis began visiting hospital emergency rooms in greater numbers, increasing the amount of hospitalizations from 1994 to 2014 by more than double and...
If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), you may also have a smaller amount of white matter in your brain’s insula, which is an area of your brain that prompts...
