Tag: Gastroenterology

  • Arts & Culture

    The story from beginning to end

    Norton Greenberger, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has written a book about the hidden world of digestion — and no holds are barred.

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Bone marrow stem cells may help control inflammatory bowel disease

    Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School investigators have found that infusions of a particular bone marrow stem cell appeared to protect gastrointestinal tissue from autoimmune attack in a mouse model.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Simple tools can reduce transmission

    Viral upper respiratory and gastrointestinal infections are the two most common illnesses that occur in children enrolled in day care, and secondary attack rates within families can be as high…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Cystic fibrosis gene linked to fatty acid defects

    Researchers already understood that the defective CFTR gene causes CF, explains senior author Steven D. Freedman, M.D., Ph.D., of the gastroenterology division at BIDMC and associate professor of medicine at…

    1–2 minutes