Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Gastroenterology Research)
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2024
March
27,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
New research from Cedars-Sinai suggests people who are scheduled for certain medical procedures should stop taking popular weight loss drugs in the days or weeks prior to avoid complications.Investigators found glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor …
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March
18,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified risk factors that make inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients susceptible to developing serious conditions in other parts of their bodies.The study is published in the journal Gastroenterology.“We …
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February
19,
2024
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The pain experienced by hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is routinely treated with opioid medication, but with little success in actually controlling major discomfort. Cedars-Sinai investigators developed a Proactive …
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2023
November
01,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from Cedars-Sinai have made two important discoveries about fiber and the gut microbiome in patients with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV.Their findings, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports, could aid future …
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October
10,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
BACKGROUND The gastrointestinal tract includes the organs that digest food, absorb nutrients and process the body’s waste. A protein called mucin is essential to the proper functioning of these organs, which are basically a long, coiled tube. …
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August
09,
2023
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Sex differences in the risk and manifestation of disease are increasingly being explored in the search for effective treatments. Teasing out this variable is often overlooked in complex disease genetics, according to Cedars-Sinai investigators who …
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July
25,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The mass and composition of our bodies can significantly affect the way medications are metabolized and absorbed. Investigators at Cedars-Sinai found that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients with higher levels of intra-abdominal visceral …
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May
18,
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
By studying the cells that line the intestines, Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered a biological process that helps these cells repair themselves. The findings, published in the journal Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, …
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April
20,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified a genetic variant that increases people’s risk of developing perianal Crohn’s disease, the most debilitating manifestation of Crohn’s disease.The variant generates changes to DNA that lead to a loss of …
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April
03,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators describes how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, may help improve health outcomes for patients with cirrhosis and liver cancer by providing easy-to-understand information about basic …
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March
16,
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai has established a new Human Microbiome Research Institute that will support investigators studying how the microbiome, the diverse collection of bacteria, fungi and viruses that live in and on the human body, plays a role in …
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2022
September
30,
2022
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06:09 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators found using breath tests to identify gut gas profiles can potentially help lead to more personalized therapies for people diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The most common gastrointestinal …
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August
17,
2022
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11:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a method to help identify which human gut microbes are most likely to contribute to a slew of inflammatory diseases like obesity, liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer and some neurological …
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May
23,
2022
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Getting the COVID-19 vaccination strengthened one type of immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients even though they were taking immunosuppressant medication, according to investigators at Cedars-Sinai.The …
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May
20,
2022
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06:20 AM
America/Los_Angeles
An innovative mobile phone application was found to be as good as expert gastroenterologists at characterizing stool specimens, according to a study by Cedars-Sinai. The artificial intelligence (AI) used in the smartphone app also outperformed …
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April
06,
2022
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07:18 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Making simple changes in the way care is delivered to patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) improves outcomes and reduces healthcare emergencies. These changes also lower the high cost of IBD patient care, according to two studies by …
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2021
November
02,
2021
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06:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai found that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)─whose treatment can weaken the immune system─produced a strong antibody response to COVID-19 vaccination. The study findings have been published in the Annals of …
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June
08,
2021
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08:08 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) do not appear to have increased risk of side effects from the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, according to a recent Cedars-Sinai study published online and upcoming in print in the American …
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2020
November
11,
2020
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07:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Blood clots are the biggest cause of death in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) ─ ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. In a retrospective study recently published in the journal Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai investigators found that …
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November
05,
2020
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07:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
An enzyme that helps COVID-19 (coronavirus) infect the body also plays a role in inflammation and patient outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study led by Cedars-Sinai. The findings raise the possibility that …
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2018
June
05,
2018
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08:31 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have for the first time identified a gas produced in gut that could improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with two common intestinal illnesses—small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and irritable bowel …
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2016
August
24,
2016
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02:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Biomedical investigators at Cedars-Sinai have identified an enzyme found in all human cells that alerts the body to invading bacteria and jump-starts the immune system.In their study, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Cell, the …
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