Gastrointestinal Conditions News

In a video exclusive, Lorenzo D’Antiga, MD, Pappa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, said Bylvay induced a sustained improvement in cholestasis-related parameters in patients with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis.

Boston Children’s Hospital was named Tuesday as the best children’s hospital in the United States for the eighth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report, which expanded its annual list this year to include state and regional rankings.

Under an FDA-approved expansion of the pediatric indication, children as young as age 3 years are now able to receive Epclusa for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus regardless of HCV genotype or severity.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis disproportionately affected non-Hispanic white patients, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week.

The prevalence of infant GERD was highest in the first 3 months of life and decreased with age, according to a study at Digestive Disease Week.

The fetal gut microbiome of healthy term infants developed during and after birth but not before, according to research published in Nature Microbiology.

A previously healthy 17-year-old male is brought to your office with fever, cough and right upper quadrant pain with periodic nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

The AAP and Bright Futures made updates to their recommendations for preventive pediatric care, adding screenings for adolescent and maternal depression, prepubertal cholesterol and HIV, among others.

Children with inflammatory bowel disease who receive anti-tumor necrosis factor treatment were more likely to see BMI levels increase and incur a risk for obesity, according to a presentation at Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.

Pediatric patients adhering to a specific carbohydrate diet or modified specific carbohydrate diet showed improved symptoms of their inflammatory bowel disease, according to a presentation at Crohn’s and Colitis Congress.