Items Tagged ‘gastroenterology’
April 23, 2019
Testing the bugs within to maintain health, detect and treat disease
Article by Sharon Rosen The use of microbiome testing – which analyzes the trillions of bacteria in and on the body – is on the move. It’s going from the research lab into the clinic to help guide patient care. DNA testing technologies have revolutionized researchers’ ability to identify individual bacterial strains driving disease. Now […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, colorectal cancer, digestive diseases, DNA testing, gastroenterology, gut health, microbiome, Purna Kashyap
April 4, 2019
The lowdown with Dr. Bharucha: Gastroenterology researcher and clinical trials guru
For Adil Bharucha, M.B.B.S., M.D., research is a passion nurtured over time. A passion, he says, that came to him, not in a dazzling “a-ha moment,” but slowly, through the encouragement of mentors, the exhilarating feeling of discovery, and the compassion he felt for his patients—“through osmosis,” he says. He began his medical studies at […]
Tags: Adil Bharucha, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, clinical trials, gastroenterology, medical research, Office of Clinical Trials
April 3, 2019
Research News Roundup-March 2019
The Mayo Clinic Research News Roundup includes brief summaries and links to research news releases from the past month. It also connects readers to related resources. Read on for more information from Mayo Clinic Research. Removal of ‘zombie cells’ alleviates causes of diabetes in obese mice Mayo Clinic researchers and their collaborators have shown that when senescent […]
Tags: AFib, aging, Alzheimer's disease, atrial fibrillation, biomarkers, cancer, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, clinical trials, diabetes, gastroenterology, hepatitis, JAMA
February 11, 2019
By Kate Ledger 
Gastroenterologists agree that removing a colorectal polyp is an important step in preventing colon cancer, but one challenge has been excising polyps that are large, particularly those that are flat and more than an inch in diameter. A recently introduced minimally-invasive approach, called endoscopic mucosal resection, or EMR, facilitates the removal of large polyps without […]
Tags: cancer prevention, colon cancer, colon polyp, gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Michael Wallace, minimally invasive surgery
August 21, 2018
‘Gut touch?’ Mayo Clinic researchers discover important trigger for serotonin release
By Advancing the Science contributor
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered an important mechanical trigger in the gut for releasing serotonin in the body. Serotonin is an important hormone and neurotransmitter in the human body, believed to help regulate digestion, appetite, mood, social behavior, sleep and other important functions. The researchers’ findings were published this week in the Proceedings of the National […]
Tags: Arthur Beyder, basic science, gastroenterology, gut health, Mayo Clinic Proceedings
July 5, 2018
Research News Roundup-June 2018
Each month, we publish Mayo Clinic’s Research News Roundup. This article includes brief summaries and links to news releases from the preceding month that discuss some of our latest medical research. It also connects readers to related resources. This month’s Roundup includes a number of findings related pancreatic cancer and other gastrointestinal disorders, as well […]
Tags: basic science, cancer, Center for Individualized Medicine, constipation, diabetes, DNA, DNA testing, gastroenterology, gene mutation, genetic testing, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer
June 25, 2018
Pancreas neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are a collection of rare neoplasms distinct from pancreas ductal adenocarcinoma. Although the molecular profile of pNETs is somewhat unclear, advances in molecular tumor genotyping is one area of research that is advancing the understanding of this disease. In a 2017 article published in Oncotarget, Ferga Gleeson, M.D., M.B., B.Ch., a specialist […]
Tags: basic science, Center for Individualized Medicine, DNA, Ferga Gleeson, gastroenterology, individualized medicine, pancreatic cancer, precision medicine
May 16, 2018
Using Big Data to Reduce Waste and Improve Care For Colorectal Cancer Patients
Colorectal cancer is the third cause of cancer deaths in the United States for both men and women. Not only is colon cancer a common cancer, a significant proportion of these patients undergo treatment. The treatment is complicated and may involve inpatient and outpatient settings as well as multiple specialists. As a result of the […]
Tags: cancer, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, colon cancer, emergency department, gastroenterology, Nabil Wasif, OptumLabs
December 19, 2017
Searching for genetic clues and treatment for unexplained chronic liver disease
By Sharon Rosen Douglas Simonetto, M.D. “Chronic liver disease affects 3.9 million people each year in the United States. As many as 30 percent of patients suffer from unexplained chronic liver disease where there is no cure,” says Douglas Simonetto, M.D. That’s why Dr. Simonetto and his colleagues in Mayo Clinic’s Division of Gastroenterology and […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, Douglas Simonetto, gastroenterology, genetic testing, liver disease
August 2, 2017
Mayo researchers to explore safety of combining blood-thinners
Millions of Americans are taking blood-thinning drugs for common medical conditions. Often, they receive prescriptions for more than one when they have multiple chronic diseases or conditions. As Americans age and the number of people on these drugs is expected to steadily increase over the coming decades, researchers are trying to better understand how the […]
Tags: anticoagulant, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, gastroenterology, Neena Abraham