The characteristics of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with severe COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Although primarily a respiratory illness, several studies have shown that COVID-19 causes elevation of liver enzymes and various gastrointestinal (GI)...

Lactobacillus stress protein GroEL prevents colonic inflammation

We previously showed that supernatants of Lactobacillus biofilms induced an anti-inflammatory response by affecting the secretion of macrophage-derive...

Pathways for the development of multiple epithelial types of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas

The intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas is categorized into four distinct types. Each type is associated with specific clinicopath...

Respiratory Tract Manifestations of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease can manifest in many extraintestinal organ systems. Most frequently involved extraintestinal locations include mucocutaneou...

90-Day Specific Readmission for Clostridium difficile Infection After Hospitalization With an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flare: Outcomes and Risk Factors

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have an increased risk for Clostridium difficile infection. We aimed to investigate disease-specific readmiss...

Preadmission Cannabis Use Is Positively Correlated With Inpatient Opioid Dose Exposure in Hospitalized Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Opioid use is associated with excess mortality in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) It is unknown if preadmission use of cannabis increas...

Nutrition During Pregnancy

Miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy before the 20th week. About 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. But the actua...

Hand Hygiene

Throughout any given workday, employees use their hands to write up a report, shake hands with a new client, open doors, and much more. All of these a...