Digestive symptoms are common in COVID-19, occurring as the chief complaint in nearly half of patients presenting to hospital according to a new descriptive, cross-sectional multicenter study from China by investigators from the Wuhan Medical Treatment Expert Group for COVID-19 published today in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, the official publication of the American College of Gastroenterology. Most patients with COVID-19 ...

The outbreak of COVID-19 disease due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus has recently spread from its original cluster in Hubei province, China throughout the world, and has been declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Europe is severely affected with an exponential increase of number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and ...

A new study indicates that the kinds of microbes living in the gut influence the severity and recurrence of parasitic worm infections in developing countries. The findings, by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, suggest that manipulating the gut’s microbial communities may protect against intestinal parasites, which affect more than 1 billion people worldwide. The study ...

By Chad Terhune This article first appeared January 19, 2018 on Kaiser Health News. A Seattle judge said Olympus Corp. failed to properly disclose internal emails that raised safety concerns about a redesigned medical scope as early as 2008, several years before the device was publicly tied to deadly superbug outbreaks. Citing those “willful discovery violations” by the Japanese device ...

The Nebraska Center for Nursing honored five Nebraska nurses for making a difference through contributions to health care and their communities. The honorees were selected based on criteria that includes active involvement in activities that advance the nursing profession, like volunteer work, as well as activities that enhance the health and well-being of the community. Meet this year’s honorees: Nancy ...