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Acid reflux is normal. GERD is not. A Columbia gastroenterologist explains both, and why GERD Awareness Week overlaps with Thanksgiving.
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A new mouse model may be critical for understanding the most aggressive types of pancreatic cancer and finding ways to prevent its growth and recurrence.
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An oral microbiologist who collaborates with dentists and doctors discovers what our bodies already knew: Everything is connected.
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A new book by a Columbia gastroenterologist focuses on inflammation, disease, and diet and explains how Inflammation is not only a consequence of disease, but also a potential root cause of it.
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- August 29, 2022
A study of mice found that dietary sugar alters the gut microbiome, setting off a chain of events that leads to metabolic disease, pre-diabetes, and weight gain.
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- May 31, 2022
The nutritionists at Columbia University’s Celiac Disease Center have heard every myth about celiac disease, even from their own patients.
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- May 12, 2022
More than a dozen experimental drugs designed to help people with celiac disease are now in clinical trials, raising hope that gluten could one day be back on the menu for many.
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- May 10, 2022
When patients complain of a stomachache, doctors consider problems with the digestive system but also the bladder, kidney, and reproductive organs.
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- March 22, 2022
With colon cancer becoming more common in people under 50, screening guidelines have changed.
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- August 31, 2020
People with gluten sensitivity have an antibody profile that differs from that of people with celiac disease, which could help doctors diagnose gluten sensitivity.
- June 15, 2020
In two new papers, Columbia pediatricians describe two different types of serious COVID disease that occur rarely in children.
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- November 20, 2019
Bo Shen, MD, and Neal LeLeiko, MD, PhD, leaders in caring for adults and children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), are taking on key roles at VP&S and NewYork-Presbyterian/CUIMC.
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- August 1, 2019
Columbia researchers are using an array of new, high-throughput technologies to identify the distinct neighborhoods within the gut’s microbiome.
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- May 7, 2019
A new study suggests that depression and GI trouble sometimes spring from the same source—low serotonin—and identifies a potential treatment that could ease both conditions.
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