Nearly 3 out of 4 pregnant women experience constipation, diarrhea or other bowel disorders during their pregnancies, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found. But such bowel disorders only minimally affect a pregnant woman's quality of life, the study found. The study by senior author...
The University of Manchester is leading a 12 million euro systems medicine research network to identify better treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease like Crohn's Disease. Professor Werner Müller from the Faculty of Life Sciences is the Scientific Co-ordinator for the network called...
Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) - inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract - have puzzled the scientific community for decades. Ten years ago, researchers recognized that both genes and the environment contributed to these diseases but knew little about precisely how...
Avastin, or Bevacizumab, has been shown to increase survival from bowel cancer in around ten to 15 per cent of patients, but it has been impossible to predict who will benefit. Avastin works by targeting and blocking the VEGF-A protein, two major forms of which are VEGF165 and VEGF165b. VEGF165...
Almirall, S.A. (ALM:MC) and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRWD) have announced that the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion recommending the marketing approval for Constella® (linaclotide 290 micrograms), for the symptomatic...
New research shows that a special population of stem cells found in cord blood has the innate ability to migrate to the intestine and contribute to the cell population there, suggesting the cells' potential to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). "These cells are involved in the formation of...
New research published in Cell Reports has revealed that high levels of iron switches on a key pathway in people with faults in a critical anti-cancer gene (APC) that could raise the risk of bowel cancer. According to Cancer Research UK scientists, based at the University of Birmingham and the...
I have had problems with my gut for 3 years now. starting 3 years ago with discomfort on right lower quadrant.had gallbladder removed for polyps last year. i get same discomfort in same area like there is something in there getting slowly bigger..I also suffer from very bad gastric reflux which...
Inflammatory bowel disease is caused by chronic inflammation , which leads to damage of the intestinal epithelium. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have an elevated risk for developing colorectal cancer because of this chronic inflammation. In an effort to develop strategies to break...
Today in Daily Mail news ... Nutritionists are putting your health at risk! They "ignore alarming symptoms" and rely on non-medically-sanctioned tests. In other words: Nutritionists are not doctors. If you want to eat better, lose weight or figure out food intolerances, a nutrition therapist...
The rate of deaths due to bowel cancer varies by as much as three times between the lowest and the highest rate areas of the UK, a fact that must not be ignored says the cancer charity Beating Bowel Cancer, which also considers that even the lowest death rate is still too high and over 5,000...
Rural doctors are urging more rural Australians to undertake a painless, at-home bowel cancer test to help reduce deaths by cancer. The call follows recent Cancer Council research which shows that although more than 80% of people aged 50 and over are aware of the simple, at-home screening...
ago.? Have always been completely regular, but always ate at least three pieces of fruit a day. This program does not allow for fruit at all. What can I do without breaking the program. Apart from that I suffer from no hunger or fatigue whatsoever which is a first of all the diet programs I've...
Certain bacteria that inhabit the intestine provide the environmental trigger that initiates and perpetuates chronic intestinal inflammation in individuals who are genetically susceptible to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a study led by Harvard School of Public Health researchers has found...
C-reactive protein (CRP) is used to assess disease activity in diverse inflammatory disorders including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, in IBD, a significant number of patients present with low CRP levels despite clinically active disease. In paediatric patients with IBD the...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a disease of the gastrointestinal tract, mainly the intestines, that may occur in those people who have genetic potential combined with environmental factors. There has been no definitive medical treatment and drugs usually just relieve the symptoms. Local...
My cat had her first litter yesterday, don't judge me, when we got her we were under the impression that she was fixed. Anyway, she had six kittens, they're all seemingly in good health, all of them are eating and she's taking good care of them. I'm just wondering when I should expect their...
My cat had her first litter yesterday, don't judge me, when we got her we were under the impression that she was fixed. Anyway, she had six kittens, they're all seemingly in good health, all of them are eating and she's taking good care of them. I'm just wondering when I should expect their...
We are not alone - even in our own bodies. The human gut is home to 100 trillion bacteria, which, for millions of years, have co-evolved along with our digestive and immune systems. Most people view bacteria as harmful pathogens that cause infections and disease. Other, more agreeable, microbes...