Digestive Disease Week is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers, and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery.
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Digestive Disease Specialists now has 20 gastroenterologists, spanning five offices with two free-standing endoscopy units.
Although Gastroparesis is still rare, we are certainly seeing an increasing number of cases, due in large part to improvements in our ability to diagnose the condition - Dr Matthew Kroh, chair of the
Digestive Disease Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
This information will be presented at
Digestive Disease Week.
"The findings also indicated that higher coffee consumption was associated with a reduced risk of death from any cause, including circulatory diseases and
digestive diseases," said epidemiologist and study leader Marc Gunter, who heads the nutrition and metabolism section of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.
When asked why the company chose to launch these products at
Digestive Disease Week[R], ALPCO President Sean Conley explained, "This meeting hosts physicians, researchers, and academics in the gastroenterology field who, like us, share the common goal of advancing research to help improve patient outcomes.
Also, the new
digestive disease specialty sales force will expand Salix's specialty sales effort to target endocrinologists, infectious disease, pain specialists and high volume primary care physicians, prescribers formerly not accessed by our GI-focused sales effort.
Joseph Brasco, MD, Center for Colon and
Digestive Disease. "It is essential that the public be provided with simple and easy-to-understand information about purity and the source of product, appropriate dosing and how and when to add supplements to a healthy diet so that we can better use nutrition to stave off disease."
Stool DNA tests detected mutations from the tumors of 68% of patients who had known Gl cancers, located from the oropharynx to the colon, reports
Digestive Disease Week.
According to research presented at the 2009
Digestive Disease Week conference, even short-term use of popular acid-reducing heartburn drugs may raise the risk of hip fractures.