gastrointestinal

(American Society of Clinical Oncology) New research into the treatment, prognosis and early detection of gastrointestinal cancers was released today in advance of the ninth annual Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium being held Jan. 19-21, 2012, at the Moscone West Building in San Francisco, Calif.

A bizarre doctor’s visit turned up a 25-year-old pen in the pit of an elderly woman’s stomach – and when it removed, it was still usable.

The 76-year-old woman, whose story was reported in the British Medical Journal Case Reports, was seeing a gastrointestinal specialist for stomach-related problems, including weight loss and diarrhea.

Exercising is often a challenge for people with Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and other gastrointestinal disorders.

Get tips on how to make exercising easier when you have one of these conditions.

(MedPage Today) -- The story of two communities in Alabama that lost water service after the towns' pipes burst -- and the resulting increase in acute gastrointestinal illness -- highlights how necessary access to clean water is to good health.

The benefits of using a common class of heartburn drugs in combination with antiplatelet therapy in people with heart disease outweighs the risk for most people with a history of gastrointestinal (GI) problems, according to new guidelines.

Babies who are breastfed exclusively for the first four months of life and partially thereafter have a reduced risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, but six months on the breast alone is even better, new research indicates.

(Digestive Disease Week) Thousands of physicians, researchers and academics from around the world will gather in New Orleans, La., from May 1-5 for Digestive Disease Week, the premiere scientific conference in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.

In advance of the meeting, please join us for a telebriefing.

(Digestive Disease Week) Thousands of physicians, researchers and academics from around the world will gather in New Orleans in early May for Digestive Disease Week (DDW), the premiere scientific conference in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.

(American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) Researchers studied the rate of interval colorectal cancer in patients participating in the Polyp Prevention Trial Continued Follow-up Study and found that nine cases of colorectal cancer were diagnosed over 7,626 person-years of observation for an incidence rate of 1.2 per 1,000 person-years of observation.

Of patients in whom colorectal cancer developed, 78 percent had a history of advanced adenoma. The majority of the cancers detected were early stage and therefore highly curable.

OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Even asymptomatic patients undergoing common bariatric surgery procedures should be considered for a preoperative endoscopic evaluation, according to guidelines just issued by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.