Gastrointestinal Conditions News

The risk for infections and infection-associated mortality among long-term survivors of childhood cancer continues to increase with time from diagnosis, study results suggest.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Results of a cohort study from India indicate a significant association between the fecal microbiota and responses to both oral and systemic vaccines.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Results of a cohort study from India indicate a significant association between the fecal microbiota and responses to both oral and systemic vaccines.

Risk for lymphoma was not increased in children receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy for inflammatory bowel disease compared with adult patients receiving the same therapy or pediatric patients receiving other therapies, and risk for serious infection was significantly lower, according to research data.

Hepatic steatosis was common among overweight and Hispanic adolescent and young adult females, according to new research data.

Recent data show rotavirus vaccination reduced rotavirus-associated hospitalizations among German children. Further, effectiveness did not differ between the two vaccines, Rotarix and Rotateq.

More than one in 20 children delivered by women with chronic hepatitis C virus infection become infected themselves, suggesting that vertical transmission is the most common transmission route of the disease among children, according to the results of a recent meta-analysis.

Children with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and adults with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis showed improved liver histology in two randomized trials after experiencing decreased serum levels of keratin 18, according to new research data.

The risk for recurrence of pediatric ileocolic intussusception within 48 hours after enema reduction was low, according to recent study data.

In Connecticut, higher socioeconomic status was correlated with increased prevalence of campylobacteriosis, according to recent findings.