March 7, 2018 2:12 pmPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Colon Cancer Awareness Month
Join Allen Digestive Health and many others in raising colon cancer awareness this March by wearing blue and spreading the word about the need to be screened! March is an...
March 7, 2018 9:29 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on The Benefit of Gut-Brain Modulators on GI Disorders: A Physician’s Perspective
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...
March 7, 2018 9:28 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Liver Disease Risk Increases Among Male Teenage Drinkers
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...
March 7, 2018 9:27 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Gastroparesis Driving Increased ER Visits and Costs
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...
March 7, 2018 9:26 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Brain Changes Linked to Presence of IBS
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...
March 7, 2018 9:26 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Trial Program Shows Benefits of Individual Diets and Health Education
For patients who are obese and have been diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), a recent trial program demonstrates that individual education regarding the connection between diet and this condition, along...
March 7, 2018 9:25 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Colorectal Cancer Risk Increases with Inflammatory Diets
A recent study indicates that foods more likely to cause inflammation, such as red and processed meats, sugary beverages and refined grains, also carry an increased risk of Colorectal Cancer. Researchers...
February 14, 2018 10:26 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Dr. Kalala Selected as Fellow of ACG
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kalala has been selected as a Fellow of American College of Gastroenterology. Being selected by the American College of Gastroenterology for Fellow demonstrates...
January 4, 2018 9:23 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Gut-Brian Link Explored by Researchers
Our epithelium is a small lining of our guts that contains a universe of different microbes, food particles and other molecules, including a hormone that drives our emotions as well...
January 4, 2018 9:22 amPublished by Website CreatorComments Off on Incidences of Liver Cancer Rising
Over the last thirty-plus years, liver cancer death rates have dramatically increased in the U.S., with the disease now ranking as the fastest-rising cancer fatality as over 40,000 new cases and...