Kenny Walter

New-onset diarrhea is common among inpatients and residents of long-term care facilities.

The new guidance restructures how study designers should look at trial population, efficacy benchmarks, and safety in clinical trials involving drug development.

Vitamin D supplementation also resulted in improvements in quality of life scores for patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

Propolis is a resinous give product collected by honeybees from varied petals and plant buds sources.

A combination of first-line management consisting of validation, explanation, and a positive diagnosis, non-pharmacological treatments, and pharmacological treatment should be considered for pediatric patients with IBS or functional abdominal pain disorders.

Antibiotic and proton pump inhibitor use was also associated with an increased risk of C difficile infection.

Dr. Simonetto is involved in several studies using artificial intelligence.

Pediatric patients with CDI had a higher number of previous-day hospital admissions, hospitalizations, and total hospital admissions.

The investigators will now move forward testing the 150 mg dosage of the treatment in a phase 3 trial.

There were key aspects that differed in the gut microbiota between patients with major depressive disorder and the healthy control group.

The overall strength of association was directly related to the number of affected first-degree relatives and was modified by IBD subtype and age of diagnosis.

Palliative care programs were challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Homa suggests many women consider freezing their eggs during their childbearing years.

Females were disproportionately affected by some of the restrictions put in place in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The VersiPD Cycler System is expected to be available in the US in 2022.

The long-term efficacy of fundoplication surgery has not previously been explored for the management of the symptoms of GERD.

A large proportions of patients with C difficile infections do not respond to metronidazole.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are at an increased risk of developing depression.

New research shows diarrhea did not increase overall mortality for hospitalized patients.

Outside of the ankle, knees and elbows were also commonly affected joints for patients with hemophilia.

The most common comorbidities for adults were hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes.

C Difficile infections decreased in VA healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Interventions could be utilized in patients awaiting liver transplantations to avoid further complications or mortality.

Recurrent infections occurred in 23.9% of the 134-patient study.

While it is known that ASD is linked to altered gut microbiota, there is little research into the altered bacterial species.

Dave Bellevue of The Oxymorrons joins Steve to talk about his journey to mental health advocacy.

The adverse event rate was 2.2% for patients with IBD following 1 dose of the vaccine.

ALT can be used a marker for NAFLD severity in pediatric patients.

Current smoking status, emergent/urgent surgery, and abdominoperineal resection were considered risk factors for total complications.

Botulin toxin was first approved by the FDA in 2002 for cosmetic reasons.