IBS and Chronic Constipation

IBS and Chronic Constipation News

FDA Panel Backs Prucalopride for Chronic Idiopathic Constipation An FDA panel unanimously recommended prucalopride oral tablets for the treatment of adults with chronic idiopathic constipation.
Medscape Medical News, October 18, 2018
Home-Based Biofeedback Therapy Helpful for Constipation In treating dyssynergic defecation, home-based biofeedback therapy is as good as the office-based version, relieving chronic constipation in about 70% of patients, a new study has found.
Reuters Health Information, October 5, 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 8, 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 6, 2018

Believing Her Pain: My Education in Interpersonal Violence
Annals of Family Medicine, October 8, 2018
Medical Cannabis for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia
Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, August 27, 2018
Tong-Xie-Yao-Fang vs Placebo for Diarrhea-Predominant IBS
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, August 21, 2018
Physician's Role When a Patient Discloses IPV Perpetration
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, August 20, 2018
Diverticula Not Associated With Inflammation or GI Symptoms
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, August 10, 2018