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Mashup Score: 6Dietary Interventions Beat Medication in IBS Treatment - 2 day(s) ago
Both a low-FODMAPs and low-carb diet led to a larger decrease in symptom severity
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Mashup Score: 5
Dietary interventions such as low FODMAP should be considered a potential first-line treatment for patients with IBS, outperforming symptom-targeted medication in reducing symptom severity, a study suggests. However, all interventions in the single centre study resulted in significant and clinically meaningful efficacy at improving gastrointestinal, psychological and non-gastrointestinal somatic symptoms, and quality of life, the […]
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Mashup Score: 3
Odevixibat could be an efficacious non-surgical intervention to improve pruritus, reduce serum bile acids, and enhance the standard of care in patients with Alagille syndrome. Longer-term safety and efficacy data of odevixibat in this population are awaited from the ongoing, open-label ASSERT-EXT study.
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Mashup Score: 12
Yusuke Shimakawa (Institut Pasteur) discusses the development and evaluation of a simple score for hepatitis B treatment eligibility in Africa.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00449-1?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas
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Mashup Score: 45Urgent action needed to achieve viral hepatitis elimination - 3 day(s) ago
The headline figures from WHO’s 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, released at the World Hepatitis Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 9, make for stark reading. 1·3 million people died from viral hepatitis in 2022: the same number as killed by tuberculosis, second only to COVID-19 as the leading communicable cause of death, and an increase on the 2019 estimate of 1·1 million. There were 1·2 million new hepatitis B infections and almost 1 million new hepatitis C infections in 2022—marginally lower than 2019 estimates, but not substantially so.
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Mashup Score: 45Urgent action needed to achieve viral hepatitis elimination - 3 day(s) ago
The headline figures from WHO’s 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, released at the World Hepatitis Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 9, make for stark reading. 1·3 million people died from viral hepatitis in 2022: the same number as killed by tuberculosis, second only to COVID-19 as the leading communicable cause of death, and an increase on the 2019 estimate of 1·1 million. There were 1·2 million new hepatitis B infections and almost 1 million new hepatitis C infections in 2022—marginally lower than 2019 estimates, but not substantially so.
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Mashup Score: 4
Study identified factors and strategies for maintaining response
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Mashup Score: 19Top-Down Therapy Proves Its Worth in Crohn’s Disease - 5 day(s) ago
Adults newly diagnosed with active Crohn’s disease benefit from immediate treatment with advanced therapies, according to research.
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Mashup Score: 4What’s the Best Way to Treat I.B.S.? - 8 day(s) ago
A new study suggests that certain dietary changes may be more effective than medication.
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Mashup Score: 18
Both a special diet that excludes “FODMAP” compounds and a low-carb high-fibre diet were effective
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