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Tips for Dealing With Heartburn Naturally

Tips for Dealing With Heartburn Naturally

How to eliminate heart burn fast. Learn some tips to help ease the pains from acid reflux in your stomach. It may even help you to end your heart burn completely.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the Brain

Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the Brain

Study: The brains of women with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are thin in areas that control hypervigilance, emotion, and pain.
Sessile Serrated Polyps at Screening Colonoscopy

Sessile Serrated Polyps at Screening Colonoscopy

Sessile serrated polyps are increasingly recognized as an important precursor to colorectal cancer, but how often are they actually found and diagnosed?
Endoscopic Ultrasound in Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis

Endoscopic Ultrasound in Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis

How successful is endoscopic ultrasound at differentiating between active ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease? This new study looks closely at the procedure.
HBV: React Before the Virus Does

HBV: React Before the Virus Does

This once-fatal condition can now be easily prevented, but to screen patients appropriately requires a level of awareness that is lacking at present.
Diagnosing and Treating Pancreatic Disease

Diagnosing and Treating Pancreatic Disease

Can most pancreatic diseases and malignancies be effectively managed with ERCP and/or EUS-FNA? This new study investigates.
Body Mass Index and GERD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Body Mass Index and GERD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Obesity is a potentially modifiable risk factor, but existing studies have conflicting results, possibly due to differences in study design, definitions, or populations.
Low-Residue Diet: Foods, Menus, and More

Low-Residue Diet: Foods, Menus, and More

What is a low-residue diet? Can it help your inflammatory bowel disease? WebMD has the answers.
How to Eliminate Abdominal Bloating Naturally

How to Eliminate Abdominal Bloating Naturally

Many people suffer from excessive bloating, so it's nothing to embarrassed about. There are many reasons why there may be a buildup of gas in your belly, but luckily it is something you can treat easily and naturally. Of course, it may require you to change up your diet a bit, which could be challen
Acid Indigestion Cure

Acid Indigestion Cure

Heartburn and acid indigestion are caused by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, excessive drinking or smoking, overeating and stress. It is a serious problem that, if left untreated, can lead to more severe conditions, including esophageal cancer. Alleviating heartburn is possible,
Liver Disease in Pregnancy

Liver Disease in Pregnancy

Liver disease in pregnancy can be a management challenge for obstetric and gastroenterology providers.
Ask the Experts - Should the Weekly Dose of Interferon Be Reduced at...

Ask the Experts - Should the Weekly Dose of Interferon Be Reduced at...

Is it advisable to reduce the interferon dosage from 3 million units to 1.5 million units in a patient who is in his fourth month of treatment with combination interferon/ribavirin? The patient has demonstrated a full therapeutic response and has undetectable viral load. Hepatitis C viral genome is
How Can You Treat Gastritis?

How Can You Treat Gastritis?

Learn what gastritis is, what causes it, what the symptoms are, how it is treated, and how to live with it.
What Are Stomach Ulcers?

What Are Stomach Ulcers?

What are stomach ulcers and how can they be treated naturally? Stomach ulcers, also known as gastric ulcer or peltic ulcer, is a lesion that forms in the lining of the stomach.
History of GERD in the Community and Its Effect on Survival

History of GERD in the Community and Its Effect on Survival

What are some of the most common symptoms of GERD, and how do their severity affect survival in patients?
Simvastatin Improves the H. Pylori Eradication Rate

Simvastatin Improves the H. Pylori Eradication Rate

How well do drugs in combination, including statins and antimicrobials, work in eradicating H. pylori disease?
Statin Use and the Risk of C. Difficile

Statin Use and the Risk of C. Difficile

Do statins potentially offer protection against C. difficile infection in hospitalized patients?
The Peptic Ulcer Diet: Foods You Should Avoid

The Peptic Ulcer Diet: Foods You Should Avoid

The information you'll find here will help you choose the foods you should eat if you have a peptic ulcer.
Opiate-Induced Oesophageal Dysmotility

Opiate-Induced Oesophageal Dysmotility

The esophagus is susceptible to the effects of opiates, something to keep in mind when a patient on opiates presents with dysphagia
Autoantibody Profile During Short-Term Infliximab for CD

Autoantibody Profile During Short-Term Infliximab for CD

The authors assessed the frequency and correlation of autoantibody formation in patients with Crohn's disease treated with infliximab in a routine clinical setting.