A risk-based screening strategy shows high efficacy and significant reductions in cost in the detection of upper gastrointestinal cancers compared with conventional universal screening, results from a ...

A new study casts doubt on international guidelines advising up to a week of prophylactic antibiotics in patients with cirrhosis and upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Pooled data from 14 ...

Researchers have linked upper gastrointestinal tract damage to a higher risk for developing Parkinson’s disease. The report, published Sept. 5 in JAMA Network Open, showed that mucosal damage seen on ...

Researchers report the use of Linked Color Imaging, an innovative modality that specifically combines selected wavelengths of light for illumination in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. This method, ...

Upper gastrointestinal involvement in CD appears uncommon and generally does not require different immunosuppressive treatment strategies. Response and remission rates to immunosuppressive therapy was ...

Using data from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS), Dr. Qiao-Li Wang and colleagues recently set out to further characterize the association between ...

This study tested the hypothesis of whether upper GI mucosal damage (MD) increases the risk of a PD diagnosis. Even after adjusting for covariates, individuals with MD had a 76% higher chance of ...

People treated for cancer when they were children have a higher-than-average risk of gastrointestinal problems -- some mild, some quite severe -- in the years following treatment, according to a new ...