Study Group: Physicians Who Treat Acute Pancreatitis (US)(?)

Traveller's diarrhea can be a formidable problem particularly in susceptible(eg older) patients. The invasive E Coli is particularly virulent.

Until there is general acceptance of electronic medical records by the majority of independent providers, EHR will have a limited role outside of the large institutional setting. Current software packages are either to complicated and expensive for smaller practices AND lack functionality that these...

Spyglass technology may represent a huge new market for Boston Scientific and is their first foray in the the world of endoscopes (rather than endoscopic devices).  While cholangioscopy has been around years, Spyglass offers unique advantages over standard cholangioscopes.   There are...

Significance of this article and the EGS device NOT clear due to somewhat poorly executed trial. Pilot study included patients that were poorly characterized with regards to their reflux disease (no prior pH studies) Overall benefit from Esophyx procedure remains to be determined

Technique mimics the Nissen fundoplication which is done surgically or by laparoscpy. Three months evaluation is useless. For example there is progressive loss of efficacy of Nissen fundoplication over a few years, so that evaluation of this technique will take at least 2-3 years.