Gastrointestinal Conditions News

Children with inflammatory bowel disease showed a twofold higher risk for developing cancer, especially GI cancer, and this risk persisted well into adulthood, according to the results of a national cohort study in Sweden.

CHICAGO — The increasing news coverage of gastrointestinal conditions and their treatments have spurred the spread of misinformation, especially concerning the use of MiraLAX for treating constipation, according to a recent presentation at the AAP 2017 National Conference & Exhibition.

India has averted roughly a million deaths of children aged younger than 5 years since 2005 — a milestone reached partly through large reductions in deaths from infectious diseases, according to researchers.

Travel history has a profound and essential role for the infectious disease clinician and for promoting public health priorities. The patient’s lifetime of geographic exposures, and especially those in the most recent few months, will determine what potential diagnoses are included in the differential diagnosis, whether caring for a patient with a fever, a skin lesion, a pulmonary infiltrate, focal neurologic lesion or other problem. A person’s geographic exposure profile must be combined with the clinician’s knowledge (or access to information) about clinical presentations, incubation periods, frequency of occurrence, and geographic distribution of dozens of common and a few hundred uncommon infections.

Officials in San Diego are increasing their efforts to mitigate an ongoing hepatitis A outbreak that was recently declared a local health emergency.

Exclusive enteral nutrition was as effective as corticosteroids for inducing remission in pediatric Crohn’s disease, according to a new meta-analysis.

Nearly half of pediatric patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis developed an adverse liver outcome within 10 years of diagnosis, according to a recent retrospective review.

All adolescent patients available for follow-up after treatment with Harvoni for chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 achieved sustained virologic response at 12 weeks with no serious adverse events, further supporting its approval in this population.

The introduction of rotavirus vaccines in the United States reduced the number of acute gastroenteritis-related hospitalizations from 2008 to 2013 by 382,000, saving $1.228 billion in medical costs, according to a report published in the Journal of the Pediatric Diseases Society.

WHO and partners are working with health officials in Sierra Leone to prevent the spread of infectious disease and provide ongoing health care for injured and displaced people living in vulnerable areas affected by recent mudslides and flooding, according to a press release.