A mouse model shows that systemic exposure to typhoid toxin primes the vascular endothelium, enabling Salmonella Typhi to ...

Having a gastrointestinal perforation—a hole somewhere along your gastrointestinal tract—probably isn't anyone's idea of a good time. Unfortunately, Matthew Perry had to endure that and spend three ...

Efficacy and safety of oral vinorelbine (NVBO) in first- or second-line metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Background: Bevacizumab, a vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor, has shown to be active ...

A new report confirms earlier research that colon perforation in multiple myeloma is associated with corticosteroids, though the exact cause of the apparent link is not known. Colon perforation in ...

A retrospective study of 2,931 surgically treated presumed typhoid ileal perforations in Niger found an 11.2% in-hospital ...

Advances in gastroenterology, including the introduction of PPIs, effective therapies for Helicobacter pylori infection, and endoscopic intervention, have promised to improve the incidence and ...

De-worming to improve children’s immune systems and increase nutritional intake has been one major policy focus of governments at local, federal and international levels, yet little or no emphasis is ...

A Canceropole Nord-Ouest multicenter phase II trial of high-dose imatinib mesylate in metastatic uveal melanoma This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2008 ASCO Annual Meeting. This abstract does ...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were treated with tocilizumab (Actemra) had twice the risk of gastrointestinal perforations than those on tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, Swedish ...

Acute intestinal obstruction occurs when there is an interruption in the forward flow of intestinal contents. This interruption can occur at any point along the length of the gastrointestinal tract, ...