IBS and Chronic Constipation Perspective

• Diets for Patients With CKD: What's New, What's Best? Can the diet of a patient with kidney disease be liberalized, or are all the dietary restrictions still warranted?
  Medscape Nephrology, March 27, 2019
• A Boy With Frequent Diarrhea: IBS or IBD? Does this 10-year-old boy have inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, or possibly both?
  CHOP Expert Commentary, March 18, 2019
• Chronic Constipation: Facing Tough Challenges   Gastroenterology experts discuss the unique risks for patients, especially women, of years of undiagnosed and untreated constipation.
  Medscape TV, January 16, 2019
• GI Meeting Offers Plenty for Primary Care Docs to Learn From   Dr David Johnson shares his top five takeaway messages for primary care, ranging from fraudulent gluten-free products to essential screening tips for gastrointestinal cancers.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, January 11, 2019
• Effective and Important Ways to Use Telemedicine Telemedicine has various applications, depending on location, specialty, and other factors.
  Medscape Physician Business Academy, January 01, 2019
• Open-Label Placebos: Why Are They Effective? We don't know why they work for some patients, or whether their effects can be sustained.
  Medscape, December 07, 2018
• Chronic Constipation: Whole-Body Plan   Clinicians discuss their multidisciplinary strategy for management of patients who suffer a wide range of symptoms and need an equally wide range of therapies.
  Medscape TV, November 30, 2018
• New Discoveries Take Center Stage at ACG 2018   From novel biopsy methods to data showing gluten-free foods aren't what they appear to be, this year's meeting had practice-changing implications. Dr David Johnson highlights some key studies.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, October 25, 2018
• Improving Management of Chronic Constipation: Restoring Motility   Physicians discuss individualized treatment approaches for chronic constipation, which may include drugs, surgery, physical therapy, and psychotherapy.
  Medscape TV, October 17, 2018
• Microbiome Makeover: Out With the Bad, In With the Good? Studies presented at DDW 2018 addressed the role of the microbiome in the development and treatment of IBS as well as other gastrointestinal disorders.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, August 08, 2018
• Impact of Opioid Epidemic on IBD: Patients Are at Risk The impact of the opioid epidemic in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease is front and center at DDW 2018.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, August 06, 2018
• Probiotics in Kids: What Is the Evidence?   Dr Maria R. Mascarenhas reviews the indications for and effectiveness of probiotics in the prevention and treatment of acute and nonacute gastrointestinal and extraintestinal disorders.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, July 31, 2018
• Improving Management of Chronic Constipation: Confirming CIC   Gastroenterologists discuss secondary etiologies and the wide range of diagnostic strategies needed for laxative-refractory patients.
  Medscape TV, July 13, 2018
• Integrative Medicine in Pediatrics: An Overview of What We Know   The head of integrative medicine at CHOP provides a quick overview of the many integrative therapies with a potential role in the care of children.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, July 09, 2018
• Practice-Changing Highlights From DDW 2018   Dr David Johnson reviews key presentations from Digestive Disease Week that will affect the practice of gastroenterology in both the short and long term.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, June 18, 2018
• Top 5 GI Topics for the PCP What are the top five topics that gastroenterologists read about in the past 12 months that may change the primary care management of gastrointestinal diseases?
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 04, 2018
• Pressing Need: Improving Management of Chronic Constipation   Michigan gastroenterologists confront multifactorial causes of chronic constipation and discuss the varied management options, from emerging treatments to physical therapy to alternative medicine.
  Medscape TV, May 30, 2018
• Five Reasons to Avoid Going Gluten-Free Emerging evidence suggests that significant costs--physical and financial--are associated with this diet if not administered properly.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, February 15, 2018
• ECCO 2018 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ECCO 2018
  Medscape Gastroenterology, February 02, 2018
• The Lowdown on the Lower GI Tract --More From WCOG at ACG 2017   Dr David Johnson continues to provide his takeaways from this meeting. In part 2, study highlights from the biliary tract and pancreas to the small intestine and colon are covered.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 09, 2017