Bowel

A rare complication of bowel disease

An unusual link between ulcerative colitis and upper airway inflammation have been found by researchers.Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease - often known together as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) - involves inflammation of the lower gastrointestinal tract. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have now revealed a hitherto unexpected complication of IBD.// Two patients with ulcerative c...

Shelved bowel-syndrome drug still in demand

After receiving thousands of letters from desperate patients, the FDA will convene a panel of outside experts to discuss whether Lotronex, an irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) medication,// can come back on the market. To meet demand, FDA official Victor Raczkowski says, his agency has expanded time allowed for public testimony at the advisory committee meeting. IBS, affecting up to 15% o...

Novel test for bowel cancer

Researchers have developed a rapid and infallible test for bowel cancer based upon a molecule found only in cancer cells. We already know that bowel cancer is highly curable if caught early. Screening with sigmoidoscopy - an internal exam// of the bowel can reduce the incidence of the disease. Now researchers in the find that a reliable test can also be done on samples of feces. The b...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

Changes to the way milk and water are prepared for human consumption may be needed to fight "a public health tragedy" linked to a bug causing illness in hundreds of thousands of people, it was claimed last night. Researchers believe they have found the strongest association yet between a disease commonly found in livestock and Crohn's disease,// a condition of the digestive tract suffered b...

Hope For Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Researchers say they may have discovered a potential form of relief for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.// More than 1 million Americans are estimated to have ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease the two major forms of inflammatory bowel disease. The conditions, can be painful and debilitating, and can cause chronic inflammation of the digestive tracts. Patients with inflammat...

Irritable bowel syndrome associated with food intake, confirms blood test

People suffering from irritable bowel syndrome may be having heightened food// specific antibodies to some foods. Irritable bowel syndrome is one of the most common gastrointestinal conditions. It is a chronic disease with symptoms like abdominal pain and changed bowel habits with no particular reason. Often there may not be any long-term cure for the condition. Scientists...

Inflammatory bowel disease linked to genetic abnormality

A genetic abnormality originally discovered in plants, has been pin pointed in humans as being responsible for increasing the susceptibility to Crohn's disease and bowel inflammation. The chances of developing an inherited form of the diseases increases by atleast 25% when a person happens to have a mutation on chromosome 16. The study was led by a group of researchers fr...

Cannabinoids drug for inflammatory bowel

Researchers from the University of Bath, UK has found that Cannabinoids derived from Cannabis has found to be effective in the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and //ulcerative colitis."The system that responds to cannabis in the brain is present and functioning in the lining of the gut," lead researcher Dr. Karen Wright, of the University of Bath, explained to Reut...

Cannabinoids - Antidepressant And Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment

This news article discusses both the treatments of giving Cannabinoids for depression and inflammatory bowel disease. Cannabinoids is a chemical compound found in Cannabis//. Cannabinoids are an exciting new area for medical research, but it is important to recognize that there are over 60 active ingredients in cannabis and synthetic cannabi...

Eating Red and Processed Meat may cause Bowel cancer

European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) showed that the risk of developing bowel cancer// was a third higher for people eating more than two portions a day of red and processed meat than for those eating less than one portion a week. The investigation was set up 10 years ago to research the dietary habits of red meat eating people. Eating red and processed meat increas...

Eloxatin combination reduces bowel cancer recurrences

Bowel cancer is one of the most common cancers occurring in humans. A clinical study involving patients taking supplementation of Eloxatin drug with other chemotherapeutic cancer drug for treatment of bowel // cancer has found better prognosis and reduced recurrence in these patients. This study which is called as NICE study has proved a combination of Eloxatin with chemotherapeutic drugs more ef...

Just Had Bowel Surgery? Chew Gum For A Speedy Recovery

Doctors may soon recommed patients who have undergone bowel surgery to chew gum for a speedy recovery. It has now been found by Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital researchers that chewing gum may enable restoration of normal bowel function // following surgery. This may in turn result in early discharge from the hospital. The results of this interesting study can be found in the latest issue of Archi...

Delay In Life-Saving Bowel Cancer Screening Programme In UK

The national bowel-screening programme, launched by the UK Government has been blamed for putting lives at risk due to delay in the screening // process. The Department of Health had proposed to introduce a health programme in April, targeted at screening all 60 to 69 year olds. A significant delay has been caused in implementation of the programme owing to lack of funding and prepara...

National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Lauded

The Department of Health has announced the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, which will cover the country over the next three years.// The British Society of Gastroenterology has unanimously welcomed the introduction of this program. "Although it is starting rather later than expected, it is now official that funds are being made available for this important national program...

Bowel Cancer Drug Campaigner Dies After Surgery

Hayley Newbery, the 26-year-old mother-of-three who ignited a national newspaper campaign in order to procure an unapproved drug to treat bowel cancer, has died at the St James's Hospital in Leeds.// Mrs Newbery could not tolerate surgery to remove liver and bowel tumors. Doctors told Mrs Newbery last year that she had only two months to live unless she took Avastin to reduce the size of...

New compounds Help Sustain relief For Patients With Symptoms of Bowel Disorders

In the latest studies that was presented yesterday at Digestive Disease Week? 2006 (DDW) are finding that long-term therapy with new compounds can sustain relief for these patients with symptoms ranging// from constipation to inflammation. These studies are conducted to review the therapeutic benefits for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and Crohn’s disease. They claim that the symptoms of the bowe...

Parasitic Worms Could Be Used To Treat Bowel Disease

Researcher Linda Mansfield Michigan State University is a part of a national team of scientists engaged in looking at the role of parasitic worms// in treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Her research is part of a more than $10 million National Institutes of Health grant supporting the Food and Waterborne Diseases Integrated Research Network of laboratories launched by the Nationa...

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Cured By Parasitic Worms

Parasitic worms scores better to fight against bowel diseases, reported Linda Mansfield, a researcher of Michigan State University. // Her research is sponsored by Food and Waterborne Diseases Integrated Research Network. Her research is part of a more than $10 million National Institutes of Health grant supporting the Food and Waterborne Diseases Integrated Research Network of labora...

Analysis: Bowel Diseases Triples Infertility Risks In Women

In the Journal Gut, a research published says major surgery of all inflammatory bowel diseases (such as ulcerative colitis), triples the infertility risks// in women, which was concluded from analysis of many research archives and 8 published studies. Infertility was defined as a failure to conceive after 12 months of trying. Ulcerative colitis is a condition in which sores and inflamm...

Choosing your Bowel Cancer Test

Should people have a choice when it comes to their bowel cancer screening test? This is the question being asked leading up to the launch// of the first Australian national bowel cancer screening program. After evaluating cost and reviewing the benefits and harms of alternate screening methods, the Government decided not to offer consumers a choice of screening test. Eligib...

MMR- Autism- Bowel Problems Connection To Be Investigated

Reports of suspected connection between MMR(measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and bowel disorders and autism has created concern over the safety of the vaccine, despite the assurances extended by government experts and all the Royal Colleges //. An inquiry is to be initiated by the Department of Health, and tests are to be carried out on children whose families claim we...

A New Test Developed to Identify Suspected Bowel Cancer Patients

Researchers have announced a new test to identify patients who develop bowel cancer as they have a particular gene that could be at fault is unveiled today//. An Edinburgh University team conducted the test study, and they presented their report in the New England Journal of Medicine. They explained that the tests would help to make certain that these patients could then get the be...

Bowel cancer drug plan may not be good for patients

Bowel cancer is notorious in the UK claiming almost 50 lives per day. Treatment for this cancer is effective only if it is detected early.// The plan to disallow the NHS to use two important drugs for treatment of advanced stages of bowel cancer, has drawn flak from Charities, who do not agree with the recommendations of The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nic...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome Pronounced With Low Birth Weight

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and low birth weight seems to have a connection, suggests a new academic insight. Norwegian researchers have unearthed the link, to // indicate that babies who weigh less than 5.5lbs at birth, carry a greater chance of coming down with Irritable Bowel Syndrome , in comparison to heavier babies. The findings of this study have been documented in the Journal "Gut".<b...

Restricted Fetal Growth Increases Risk of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Babies weighing less than the standard weight seem to be at significantly greater risk of developing irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, suggests research published// ahead of print in the journal Gut. The Norwegian authors base their findings on 3334 twin pairs, 1250 of whom were identical. The twins completed a comprehensive questionnaire about their health, including whether they had...

Recurrence of bowel cancer cut down by Radiotherapy

Researchers reported that radiotherapy given to bowel cancer patients before the surgical removal of the tumour, than later, can cut down// the risk of recurrence to 1 %. The usual treatment for bowel cancer is surgery. However, the risk of recurrence is there and once reappeared, treatment is difficult and usually incurable. The British scientists conducted an international study, to...

Increased Risk of Bowel cancer after Menopause

The risk of bowel cancer is greater among women than among men and Australian researchers suspect menopause is to blame.// In a Sydney study that was carried on 1200 bowel cancer patients, females were found to be 48 per cent more likely to die from their disease compared to males. On further examination of the statistics it was found that women aged 50 and under actually had a better...

Scientists Developing New Drug To Treat Bowel Cancer

Experimental studies on mice with a drug called AZD2171 which reduced the size and number of polyps in mice have led to the hope // that it could someday soon be used in humans with bowel cancer. The findings by Cancer Research UK have been published in the journal Carcinogenesis, and Dr.Robert Goodlad, leader of the research team hopes that they could be used as the basis for a dru...

Bowel Disorders may Cause a 'Roller Coaster' Pregnancy

A study has indicated that inflammatory bowel disease in women could increase the risk of complications in pregnancy by almost two times.// Diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in pregnant women could result in low birth weight babies or premature babies. Yet, the 'silver lining' exists in the form of advanced medical treatments, available today, which has certainly...

Bowel Cancer and Lifestyle Choices

Bowel cancer is a deadly disease. Yet recent studies have shown that the chance of developing it being liked to lifestyle choices such as diet and exercise//, the chances of surviving it, also depend on the same factors. The World Cancer Research Fund is putting around 50,000 pounds behind a study to be carried out by Dundee University, Scotland. The three-month study will invo...

‘Sweet Revenge’ on Inflammatory Bowel Diseae

A Leeds University scientist, Simon Carding, has genetically altered or designed bacteria in order to treat inflammatory bowel disease or IBD//. The bacterium ; Bacterium ovatus, one of the ‘good’ bacteria in the human gut, was engineered to produce human growth factors called cytokines. These were used to repair the epithelial calls in the gut damaged by the disease, hence reducing the...

MDCT Accurately Locates Bowel Perforation: Study

A new study shows that Multidetector CT (MDCT) without the use of contrast media can show the precise site of a bowel perforation.// This helps in avoiding the need for surgeons to do exploratory surgery of the patient's gastrointestinal tract to locate the problem. In the past, the best way to find a perforation in the bowel was to administer oral or rectal contrast media then watc...

Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Managing current demand for bowel cancer services has become an increasingly important issue with the roll out of Australia’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.// Four separate articles in the latest Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) look at various issues related to the implementation of the program. In his editorial for the MJA, Professor Finlay Macrae, Head of C...

Woman Says Irritable Bowel Drove Her to Shoplifting

In a curious incident reported in Florida, USA, a 61-year-old woman caught shoplifting said she could not wait for too long// in the queue to pay her bill as she was suffering from irritable bowels. A new side-effect of irritable bowel syndrome seems to have been discovered in the USA. It could drive a person to shop-lifting too, it has been reported. At least that...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Linked to Nerve Damage

People with inflammatory bowel disease may also be at risk for developing nerve damage and other neurological problems, according to a research. // Inflammatory bowel disease includes digestive disorders such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease that cause swelling and/or bleeding in the intestines. For the study, researchers compared 103 people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Antidepressants and psychological treatments such as hypnotherapy have the potential to help patients with severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), say researchers in this weeks BMJ. IBS is a very common disorder, but conventional physical treatments often do not work very well and patients can feel that their symptoms are being ignored, downplayed or misunderstood. Pat...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

An innovative type of gene therapy has for the first time succeeded in making bowel cancer cells commit suicide, according to a report in Cancer Research this week. The therapy, developed by Cancer Research UK-funded scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, combines cutting-edge techniques to target tumour cells. Known as GDEPT (Gene-Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy), the tre...

Aspirin can Prevent Bowel Cancer, Says UK Study

Aspirin for cancer, anyone? Yes, Oxford University researchers in the UK say that taking aspirin each day can prevent bowel cancer developing . Taking a dose of 300mg a day for five years offered the protection. Long-term aspirin use is generally not backed because of the risk of stomach problems, but the team said it could benefit those at high-risk of cancer. Cancer campai...

Yoghurt To Treat Bowel Infections

A humble tub of yoghurt could contain the cure for certain types of antibiotic-resistant bowel bacteria, according to recent research . Overuse of antibiotics has led to colonisation of the bowel with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), which are responsible for persistent and transmissible infections. Probiotics, found i...

Boffins Link Atkins Diet With Bowel Cancer

According to a new research, Atkins diet-low carbohydrate diet can increase the risks of bowel cancer. The research has discovered a decline in the production of a fatty acid in the gut , due to the consumption of carbohydrates. The fatty acid butyrate, which protects against colorectal cancer, is produced by bacteria and helps in fighting cancerous cells. Researchers from the Rowet...