Dr. Walid Y. Farah

Ryan Alexander, Jeffrey A Alexander et al. Dig Dis Sci. 2020 Sep 29 [Epub ahead of print] BACKGROUND Identification of clinical predictors o...

WASHINGTON (IMNG) – Gastric bypass surgery resulted in significantly more weight loss and also improved measures of glycemic control signi...

New insights from the Jackson Heart Study link lifetime discrimination and risk for hypertension in African-Americans. In the U.S., Black pe...

(FDA)—Serious respiratory depression may occur in pts using gabapentin (Neurontin, Gralise, Horizant) or pregabalin (Lyrica, Lyrica CR)...

PubMed)—Compared w/ nonusers, older adults who used aspirin ≥3x/wk had lower rates of mortality related to all causes (hazard ratio [HR...

The rates of infection following colonoscopies and upper-GI endoscopies performed at U.S. outpatient specialty centers are far higher than p...

When we use the words “tense up” or “freeze” to describe physical reactions to stress, we may be on the right track in describing how phy...

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has released updated guidelines on the use of sedation and anesthesia during GI...

A new practice guideline aims to help clinicians make decisions about when and how to safely deprescribe proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The...

The location of colon cancers determined by colonoscopy does not agree with the surgical location in almost one-third of cases, researchers ...

Atif Zaman, MD, MPH reviewing Di Marco V et al. Gastroenterology 2016 Jul. Successful treatment was associated with reduced risks for liver ...

Gastroenterologists and other physicians are virtually unanimous in appreciating the vital importance of colonoscopy screenings. In preparat...

Ninety seconds of education appeared to work wonders in getting heartburn patients to optimize their use of the proton pump inhibitor omepr...

Hospitals are taking the problem of gastrointestinal endoscope reprocessing seriously, reports here at Digestive Disease Week suggested, to ...

In a randomized phase 3 trial, 4464 H. pylori uninfected children (ages 6 to 15 years) were assigned to a three-dose oral recombinant H. pyl...

A variety of skin disorders have been reported in association with the use of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors for inflammatory and au...

Olmesartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB), can produce a "sprue-like enteropathy" characterized by severe chronic diarrhea...

The laparoscopic lavage and drainage procedure was introduced as a potentially less morbid alternative to sigmoid resection for patients wit...

Office visits prior to screening colonoscopy add to medical costs, and it's unclear whether those visits are necessary, researchers repo...

The American Association for the Study for Liver Diseases and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) have updated HCVguidelines.or...