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Scientists are studying whether long COVID could be linked to viral fragments found in the body months after initial infection

There's growing demand for healthy feces from human donors to treat C. difficile and other conditions

During colonoscopy, air insufflation to distend the lumen and facilitate careful inspection and scope insertion can induce pain and cause discomfort. Carbon dioxide (CO[2] ) insufflation can decrease abdominal pain and discomfort during and after colonoscopy. ...

Predictive model to distinguish IBD from IBS via gut microbial composition data proved more accurate than did current fecal biomarker calprotectin.

This may be surprising to many readers, but patients sometimes ask about having their colonoscopy done without any sedationl.

Doctors typically prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs to people suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis. These medications, however, leave much to be desired: they are often ineffective and can come with unpleasant side effects. What’s more, they tend to remedy the symptoms of the disease rather than fixing the underlying problem.

The rise in obesity parallels the increase in bowel cancer. Highly processed foods and alcohol could also play a role.

I actually don’t mind when my patients request a colonoscopy without anesthesia. It seriously doesn’t bother me at all. I think that on the spectrum of force, I am quite gentle with the scope, and am confident that I will expose my patients to the minimal amount of discomfort during the procedure.

The risk of acute gastroenteritis was associated with deployment itself without clear association with doxycycline. Doxycycline exposure was associated with increased onset of IBS in those deployed to developing (odds ratio [OR], 6.99; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.19-15.31) and developed country (OR, 6.93; 95% CI, 1.40-34.39). New onset of IBD (1.5%) was associated with deployment to developed countries and with doxycycline exposure

“A past history of bariatric surgery, but not recent surgery, was associated with both new-onset” Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, wrote Ryan Ungaro, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

Contrary to what you might have been told, IBS is not just all in your head! Here you will learn about the main reasons why people end up with IBS.

Researchers reveal how chemicals in some vegetables can prevent bowel cancer.

Interesting trials discussed here and the infamous "Donor B" is mentioned.

Barry Marshall, a Nobel Prize-winning gastroenterologist and researcher, thinks he’s found a better way to diagnose irritable-bowel syndrome: by listening to it.

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is gaining attention for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). Data from individual case studies have suggested that FMT may be beneficial for UC but the detailed microbial and molecular basis remains unknown.

 A new site jam packed with all manner of interesting tidbits on the human GI tract.

Giardia parasites mimic human cells to help bacteria feed off nutrients in the gut, a study says.

Rebecca Griffiths suffering from cyclic vomiting syndrome may finally be about to get the cure she needs.

Just a few years ago many in the medical profession thought that the common intestinal malady irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was psychological – with its origins in the head, not the gut. But Norwegian medical researchers have shown that the intestines of IBS patients do react to food in a special way.