Gastroenterology News

Cincinnati Children’s has claimed the No. 1 spot in the United States for pediatric gastroenterology and GI surgery, according to the 2024-2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings.

Significant variations in global rates of infection, culture-positivity and drug resistance serve as a “call to action” to streamline antibiotic use and improve outcomes among inpatients with cirrhosis, according to researchers.

Healio has announced the 2024 honorees of its peer-to-peer recognition program, Healio Honors.

Despite clinical guidance advising against such use, most individuals said that antibiotics would help treat common symptoms and prevent more serious illness, according to results of a survey of patients seen in primary care and ED clinics.

BOSTON — The odds for mortality, ventilation and septic shock among adults hospitalized with COPD went down if they also had GERD, according to data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

A new integrative model demonstrated “strong predictive performance” in identifying future risk for Crohn’s disease development among healthy first-degree relatives of patients with CD, according to a researcher.

The FDA approved Exact Sciences’ Cologuard Plus multitarget stool DNA test to screen adults aged 45 years or older at average risk for colorectal cancer, according to a company press release.

Hepatic steatosis was prevalent among 52% of adults with or without type 2 diabetes and no known history of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, according to findings published in Obesity.

Despite a twofold increase in colorectal cancer screening among average-risk individuals aged 45 to 49 years after the 2021 recommendation, disparities in socioeconomic status and locality underscore the need for targeted interventions.

The FDA granted breakthrough designation to Sagimet Biosciences’ denifanstat for the treatment of patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis and moderate to advanced fibrosis, according to a company press release.