Gastroenterology News

• DDW 2022 Gallstone Disease May Be a Harbinger of Pancreatic Cancer Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma were six times more likely to have had gallstone disease within the year prior to their diagnosis than noncancer patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• DDW 2022 Alarming Increase in Esophageal Cancer in Middle-Aged Adults The prevalence of esophageal cancer and Barett's esophagus has increased substantially among middle-aged adults during the past 5 years, warn the authors of a new study from Florida.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• DDW 2022 IBD After Age 60: More Evidence Antibiotics Play a Role Antibiotic type, frequency, and timing were assessed in a study of the development of inflammatory bowel disease later in life.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• BSR 2022 Myositis Guidelines Aim to Standardize Adult and Pediatric Care These are the first guidelines on how to manage adult and pediatric patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet Improves Immune Function In patients with obesity, a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet induces significant weight loss and has positive immunomodulatory properties, according to accumulating evidence.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• AACE 2022 First Fatty Liver Guidelines for Endocrinology, Primary Care Endocrinologists and primary care docs 'need to be the ones who are diagnosing and managing [non-alcoholic fatty liver disease] because there just aren't enough liver specialists to do that,' says author.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Nearly 234,000 Cancer Cases Predicted in Canada This Year Although overall cancer rates are declining in Canada, the number of cases and deaths continue to climb due to population growth and an aging population.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• DDW 2022 NAFLD in Lean Patients Linked to CVD Risk The link between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and higher risk of cardiovascular disease may extend beyond people who are overweight or living with obesity.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Patient Attitudes Toward AI in Healthcare: It Depends A new survey looks at what patients think about AI playing a role in their healthcare diagnosis and management.
  WebMD Health News, May 12, 2022
• Risk of Dying From New Cancer Higher in Young Cancer Survivors Adolescent and young adult cancer survivors are at an increased risk of developing and dying from a second primary cancer, highlighting the critical role of surveillance and survivorship care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• BSR 2022 Reduced-Frequency Methotrexate Monitoring Causes No Harm Laboratory blood test results were similar despite moving from once every month to about once every 3 months or about once every 5 months during the pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Early-Onset Colon Cancer Projected to Double by 2030 “We’re seeing a lot of younger people with this disease. It’s rather alarming,” says the author of a review that predicts further increases.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Can Fecal Transplants Help Reverse Aging? New research provides 'tantalizing' evidence for the direct involvement of gut microbes in aging and the possibility of gut microbe-based anti-aging therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Espresso Coffee Associated With Increased Total Cholesterol New observational data show that drinking espresso coffee is linked to higher total cholesterol levels, particularly in men. Boiled or plunger coffee was tied to higher cholesterol in both men and women.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• FODMAP-Lowering Diet App More Effective Than Spasmolytic in Improving IBS Symptoms In primary care irritable bowel syndrome patients, a FODMAP-lowering diet guided by a smartphone app was superior to the spasmolytic otilonium bromide in improving symptoms, and should be considered a first-line treatment in this setting, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, May 10, 2022
• DOJ Complaint Flags HCV Drug Denials for People With Addiction The Harvard Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and AIDS Alabama allege that Alabama Medicaid has an illegal policy of denying HCV treatment to people who have used illicit drugs or alcohol.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Medical Education Programs Tell How Climate Change Affects Health Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• What Are Common Misconceptions About Nurses? Nurses nationwide recently expressed outrage after Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen commented about the attractiveness of a nurse-actress on his show. Do you confront misconceptions about your role?
  Medscape Reader Polls, May 10, 2022