Category: 6. Health

“The fact that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) often experience symptoms like abdominal pain even during phases of disease remission suggests that mechanisms other than acute inflammatory processes contribute to the…

Islanders should stay at home and avoid visiting elderly and vulnerable people if they have the flu, officials have urged.

Experts said flu had come early this winter and they predict it could be a particularly nasty season because of a new…

A new study finds just 6% of clinical trials used to approve new drugs in the U.S. reflect the country’s racial and ethnic makeup, with an increasing trend of trials underrepresenting Black and Hispanic individuals.

The findings arrive…

When does the flu season start?

In the northern hemisphere it normally runs from mid-November to mid-February, though it can start as early as October and run into May. Health officials call the start of the season when 10% of suspected cases test…

New study findings published in Frontiers in Medicine suggest that serum total cholesterol (TC) levels may serve as a simple, readily available tool for monitoring the clinical severity of Crohn disease (CD). The retrospective cross-sectional…

Scientists in the U.K. have secured funding for a clinical trial that will test whether multiple drugs used to treat other, more common skin disorders might be repurposed to treat epidermolysis bullosa (EB)

The upcoming study, dubbed the…

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Introduction

Patients end-stage renal disease (ESRD) can benefit greatly from continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), particularly in areas where in-center hemodialysis is difficult to access.¹ CAPD is patient-centered, with the…

Introduction

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common gastrointestinal inflammatory condition with an incidence of 34 per 100000 person-years.^1,2 The clinical course is mild in most patients, but approximately 20–40% of patients develop secondary…