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At-home tests can detect recent exposure to gluten, but can the tests improve the health of people with celiac disease? Columbia researchers are launching a clinical trial to find out.
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Understanding what drives gut stem cells to work nonstop may reveal how idle stem cells elsewhere can be revved up to repair hearts, lungs, and brains. But are scientists studying the right cells?
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In the future, colon cancer could be detected and treated with a pill of bioengineered E. coli.
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Acid reflux is normal. GERD is not. A Columbia gastroenterologist explains both, and why GERD Awareness Week overlaps with Thanksgiving.
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- November 6, 2023
A new mouse model may be critical for understanding the most aggressive types of pancreatic cancer and finding ways to prevent its growth and recurrence.
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- June 30, 2023
An oral microbiologist who collaborates with dentists and doctors discovers what our bodies already knew: Everything is connected.
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- October 31, 2022
A new book by a Columbia gastroenterologist focuses on inflammation, disease, and diet and explains how Inflammation is not only a consequence of disease, but also a potential root cause of it.
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- August 29, 2022
A study of mice found that dietary sugar alters the gut microbiome, setting off a chain of events that leads to metabolic disease, pre-diabetes, and weight gain.
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- May 31, 2022
The nutritionists at Columbia University’s Celiac Disease Center have heard every myth about celiac disease, even from their own patients.
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- May 12, 2022
More than a dozen experimental drugs designed to help people with celiac disease are now in clinical trials, raising hope that gluten could one day be back on the menu for many.
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- May 10, 2022
When patients complain of a stomachache, doctors consider problems with the digestive system but also the bladder, kidney, and reproductive organs.
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- March 22, 2022
With colon cancer becoming more common in people under 50, screening guidelines have changed.
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- August 31, 2020
People with gluten sensitivity have an antibody profile that differs from that of people with celiac disease, which could help doctors diagnose gluten sensitivity.
- June 15, 2020
In two new papers, Columbia pediatricians describe two different types of serious COVID disease that occur rarely in children.
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