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Everything you want to know about your colon and tips for keeping it healthy.
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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 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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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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- October 13, 2014
A puzzling form of kidney disease—IgA nephropathy—appears to spring from the intestine, says study by CUMC researchers.
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- May 16, 2014
People diagnosed with celiac disease are not at increased risk of melanoma, researchers at CUMC and Karolinska Institutet have found.
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- May 12, 2014
New study on chronic fatigue syndrome to focus on the gut's microbiome.
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- January 17, 2014
Celiac patients with chronic intestinal damage are more likely to break a hip than patients whose intestines have healed.
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- September 13, 2013
On National Celiac Awareness Day, our CUMC experts debunk myths and misconceptions about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet.
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- August 5, 2013
Celiac disease patients with ongoing intestine damage have a greater than 2-fold increased risk of lymphoma compared with those whose intestines healed.
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- June 26, 2013
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is now one of just two hospitals in the United States to offer colon cancer screening using computer-assisted colonoscopy.
- June 20, 2013
Elevated antibodies to gluten proteins of wheat found in children with autism, but no connection to celiac disease.
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- May 21, 2013
As graduates receive diplomas across the country or deliver speeches to fellow classmates, a familiar feeling often accompanies the pomp and circumstance. What exactly does it mean to have butterflies in your stomach?
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- June 29, 2012
Under-performance of small bowel biopsy during endoscopy may explain the underdiagnosis of celiac disease in the United States.
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