For adults with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, treatment success rates ≥65 percent are seen with both oral antibiotics and combined intravenous and oral antibiotics.
The FMT National Registry, established by the AGA in partnership with other organizations, provides initial results on the safety and effectiveness of FMT for the management of Clostridioides difficile infections.
Given the lack of effective tools available for observing EGD, researchers sought to develop an AI-assisted EGD system to automatically monitor the entire stomach in real time and maintain a record of the procedure time.
The study authors aimed to estimate the prevalence and critical determinants ofpsychological distress among gastroenterologists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Investigators describe the steps taken to improve clinician referrals to the facility’s outpatient rehabilitation program for patients with GI cancers.
Based on current scientific and medical knowledge, the report provides four guidelines that encourage healthy eating throughout life and emphasize that a healthy dietary pattern is not a rigid prescription.
Chronic exposure to stressors leads to an erosion of health, as measured by allostatic load, which is particularly severe among foreign-born Black and Latino individuals.
Investigators evaluated the prevalence and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with COVID-19 and cancer who were hospitalized during the study period.
In September, as doctors prepared for a fall and winter COVID-19 surge across the U.S., they sounded alarms about inadequate supplies of the antiviral medication remdesivir to treat their patients. But that supply concern seems to have been addressed: Gilead, remdesivir’s U.S. manufacturer, confirmed that they are “meeting real-time, global demand” in an email to…
A team of investigators from the Mayo Clinic sought to determine whether colonization of C difficile in the colon may contribute to infection recurrence following antibiotic treatment.
Investigators retested RT-PCR positive nasal/oropharyngeal swab samples from recovered COVID-19 patients with prior negative results to assess the presence of replicative SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
In this genomewide association study, researchers analyzed single nucleotide polymorphisms in patients from 7 hospitals in the pandemic epicenters in Italy and Spain.
Investigators assessed the outcomes of patients with peptic ulcer and non-ulcer lesions who did or did not receive pre-endoscopic proton pump inhibitor therapy.
The EUA recommendation was based on data from the placebo-controlled COVE study that investigated the efficacy and safety of mRNA-1273 in more than 30,000 adults aged 18 years and older.
The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test includes a sterile mid-turbinate nasal swab, a dropper, processing fluid, and a Bluetooth® -connected analyzer for use with an app on a smartphone.
