Liver enzymes help break down food and turn it into energy and nutritional elements, among other things. Elevated levels ...

What the research is about Gastric cancer (stomach cancer) develops when cells lining the inner surface of the stomach ...

For years, Russ Arjal, MD, a gastroenterologist and co-founder and chief medical officer of WovenX, watched the same pattern repeat itself in gastroenterology. The specialists were skilled. The care ...

The newly-approved device requires only that patients swallow it in their doctor's office to achieve weight loss, according ...

Clinicians frequently rely on expert opinions, which are sometimes later disproven by randomised controlled trials (RCTs). For example, intrapleural streptokinase was commonplace until the MIST-1 ...

The Allurion gastric balloon can be swallowed in a 15-minute office visit and lead to a weight loss of up to 14 percent in 4 ...

Magnetically steerable capsule robot has potential to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal conditions, reduce reliance on invasive endoscopies.

The FDA has cleared a multiplex polymerase chain reaction test designed to detect 11 clinically relevant gastrointestinal pathogens from a single stool sample.The Xpert GI Panel (Cepheid) can identify ...

Other intragastric balloon systems, including Orbera and ReShape, have been approved for weight loss but require removal with ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of advanced medical devices, including tiny ...

As gastroenterology shifts further toward advanced outpatient care, a new wave of devices is expanding what can be treated endoscopically, and how efficiently practices can operate.  From tools that ...