Gastrointestinal Conditions News

Low birth weight and high birth weight were associated with the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children and both appear to increase the risk for more severe diseases such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis or advanced fibrosis, according to a recently published study.

Researchers found a positive association between anorexia nervosa and celiac disease, both before and after celiac diagnosis, in a Swedish nationwide study.

Daily use of the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus HN001 reduced the odds of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in stool samples of VA patients with initial extra-gastrointestinal colonization but did not have the same effect in samples from other sites on the body, researchers said.

Three doses of a live, low-cost and heat-stable oral bovine rotavirus pentavalent vaccine could prevent cases of severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in 66.7% of children in Niger, according to a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Two relatively rapid surveys effectively estimated the burden of childhood norovirus disease in a rural area of Guatemala, a study found.

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.

A U.S. outbreak of listeriosis linked to soft raw milk cheese killed two of the six patients who were sickened, the CDC announced.

The manufacturer of a soy nut butter that may have caused an outbreak of Escherichia coli has expanded a recall of its products because the list of people infected has grown to 16.

A competing-risk model including genetic, biological and clinical variables was predictive of complications and treatment outcomes in children newly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, according to results from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s RISK Stratification study.

Children born to mothers who acquired an infection requiring antibiotics during pregnancy do not have an increased risk for developing inflammatory bowel disease, according to the results of a Canadian population-based study.