Permanent sacral nerve stimulation looked promising in a prospective, randomized controlled study to reduce symptoms in a select group of 21 adults with diarrhea-predominant or mixed irritable bowel...
A physician’s adenoma detection rate – the proportion of screening colonoscopies he or she performs that detect at least one histologically confirmed colorectal adenoma or adenocarcinoma – strongly...
Patients with chronic pancreatitis have a life expectancy that is roughly 8 years shorter than that of the general population.
Indeed, the "beyond a doubt" finding of a mortality rate up...
Wilson disease patients without cirrhosis at diagnosis generally have good long-term prognoses, but the presence of cirrhosis on diagnosis of this rare condition necessitates transplant in up to 13%...
Aspirin therapy improves survival in patients whose colon cancers express HLA class 1 antigen, but not in those whose tumors have lost that expression, investigators reported online March 31 in JAMA...
PHOENIX, ARIZ. – Cost and quality are not always synonymous, particularly when it comes to complex surgical procedures such as esophagectomy.
A review of records on more than 6,700 patients who...
Information on the use of entecavir in children down to age 2 years has been added to the prescribing information for the chronic hepatitis B drug, the Food and Drug Administration has announced....
PHOENIX, ARIZ. – Even small pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors have the potential for malignancy and need excision or close monitoring, investigators caution.
A retrospective cohort study following...
Eligible patients who live farther away from a liver transplant center are less likely to be put on a waiting list, less likely to receive a transplant, and more likely to die within 5 years than are...
A noninvasive, multitarget stool DNA test detected significantly more cancer than did a fecal immunochemical test in people at average risk for colorectal cancer, but had greater false positive...
