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COLONOSCOPY PARTY WITH TOM HANKS, STEVE MARTIN & MARTIN SHORT? I love this idea!! What a fabulous way to make the incredibly important colon cancer screening process even more enjoyable – with your hysterical friends! Check out this article on Today.com about how these famous friends get together to prepare for their colonoscopies (and how they won’t […]
GASTROENTEROLOGY NERD ALERT: #StolenColon – a giant inflatable colon goes missing! In case you missed this amazing story in October, read about the weeks-long caper in which the inflatable colon used for educational events was stolen from a truck in Kansas City and was eventually recovered in a vacant house after an anonymous tip! https://www.nytimes.com/…/…/us/stolen-colon-kansas-city.html Thankfully […]
PREVACID? PRILOSEC? NEXIUM? ACIPHEX? DEXILANT? PROTONIX? ZEGERID? LANSOPRAZOLE? OMEPRAZOLE? ESOMEPRAZOLE? RABEPRAZOLE? DEXLANSOPRAZOLE? PANTOPRAZOLE? DO THESE HEROES HAVE A DARK SIDE? We know proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) can be very beneficial to our health – controlling symptoms of acid reflux, healing gastritis, and reducing risks of sometimes life-threatening ulcers. However, we do know that long-term use […]
GASTROENTEROLOGY NERD ALERT: A VIBRATING PILL TO TREAT CONSTIPATION?? Check out this truly novel idea about how to treat constipation without pharmaceuticals. “An Israeli company called Vibrant came up with a remedy that works mechanically. The remedy is a small capsule that is swallowed and programmed to vibrate when it reaches the large intestine. The […]