An article published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology highlights the ongoing debate over whether testing is necessary prior to diagnosis and treatment of patients with fecal incontinence (FI), the involuntary discharge of bowel contents. FI sufferers deal with significant quality of life issues and their condition often remains undiagnosed.

No one weapon in the food-safety arsenal will take out E. coli 0157:H7, a nasty little pathogen thatÕ›s becoming far too familiar to Americans, say University of Illinois scientists Scott Martin and Hao Feng.

Combining a newly formulated drug with one that is already a standard treatment slows the progression of multiple myeloma, an advanced cancer of the bone marrow cells, according to a clinical trial led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine researcher.

Scientists have identified the first biochemical marker linked to sleep loss, an enzyme in saliva known as amylase, which increases in activity when sleep deprivation is prolonged.

More than 90 percent of children and young adults who survive five years or longer after diagnosis and treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are alive 20 years later and leading productive lives, according to a University of Minnesota study.

Doctors must emphasise importance of complying with treatment say researchers

Study presented at ACNP Annual Meeting outlines effects on key symptoms

For patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), adding inhaled iloprost to treatment with bosentan≈two different classes of drugs often used individually to treat PAH≈increases exercise capability, reduces clinical deterioration and, in some cases, improves diagnostic functional class by one stage.