Credit: sfam_photo/Shutterstock What if the microbes in your gut could act as an early warning system, alerting you that you could be developing Alzheimer’s disease? This might sound improbable, but…
Tag: Gastroenterology
Wider search needed to improve outcomes for eosinophilic food allergy, says study
Image created with BioRender. Credit: Cincinnati Children’s The good news: a monoclonal antibody treatment called benralizumab proved quite effective in a clinical trial at depleting the number of eosinophils found…
Polygenic risk scores could improve colorectal cancer screening
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Rates of colorectal cancer are high despite widespread adoption of screening programs in many high-income European countries. Such programs tend to use a one-size-fits-all approach where…
Study finds stool transplants more effective than antibiotics for treating recurring, life-threatening gut infections
Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health A new study, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews…
