Gastroenterology News

The initiation of medications for alcohol use disorder, or AUD, at discharge reduced the incidence of several outcomes like hospital readmissions and ED visits, a study showed.

A quality performance measure that tracks follow-up colonoscopy rates within 6 months of an abnormal stool-based screening test was feasible and had a median reliability of 94.5% across health care organizations, according to researchers.

During Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month, an advocacy group launched the #IBSDilemma campaign to focus on the unique challenges that individuals living with this common gastrointestinal disorder may encounter in daily life.

A 75-year-old man presents for evaluation of profound fatigue of at least 3 months’ duration.

During the winter holidays, a 12-year-old girl was seen in her primary care clinic with fever, fatigue, cough and sore throat. At that time, she was thought to likely have strep throat, but her rapid strep test was negative.

The common consensus for some time has been that the prevalence of autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases has been on the rise.

Excess risk for cardiovascular disease in patients with gout — including heart failure and arrhythmias — is highest among women and those aged younger than 45 years, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Changes in intestinal microbiota could play a part in the development of fibromyalgia, most feasibly along the gut-brain axis, according to a systematic review published in the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases.

Screening patients with psoriasis, uveitis or inflammatory bowel disease for spondyloarthritis could improve early diagnosis, but no existing screening tools are generalizable to all who are at risk, according to a scoping review.

A “vast majority” of liver transplant centers use stigmatizing language, such as “alcoholic” or “alcohol abuse,” when describing patients with alcohol use disorder and alcohol-associated liver disease on their websites, researchers reported.