Intestinal Disorders News

Investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the NIH, have identified a genetic cause and possible treatment strategy for CHAPLE disease, a rare and potentially fatal autoimmune disorder.

Biocodex announced the launch of two international programs focused on research and awareness of gut microbiota: the Biocodex Microbiota Institute and Biocodex Microbiota Foundation, according to a press release.

Posttraumatic stress disorder is common among patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, for whom medical trauma from surgery could have been a trigger, according to new research presented at the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting.

As exercise intensity and duration increases, so do markers of impaired gut integrity and function, which could lead to a condition investigators called exercise-induced gastrointestinal syndrome.

Microbiota that invade the normally sterile inner colonic mucus layer correlate with the development of metabolic disease in humans, especially type 2 diabetes, according to new research.

Low-dose aspirin users are at an increased risk for lower gastrointestinal bleeding compared with non-aspirin users, according to the results of a nationwide study in Taiwan.

Data from a systematic review recently published in the Annals of Surgery highlight how appendicitis has evolved into a global disease since the turn of the century.

Patients diagnosed with uncomplicated diverticulitis in the emergency department who were discharged home with a prescription for oral antibiotics had a very low risk for returning to the hospital, according to new research published online in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Researchers have identified a unique GI bleeding syndrome associated with cirrhosis and portal hypertension, which they call “acute on chronic GI bleeding.”

The use of antibiotics was determined to be a safe and effective treatment for acute noncomplicated appendicitis in children, rather than appendectomy, according to research published in Pediatrics.