Gastrointestinal Diseases from Animals

By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter Chronic upper back pain might not only be a result of poor posture or injury, but could be caused by chronic gastritis, a clinical gastroenterologist said. A man in his 40s, surnamed Chang (張), had been experiencing mild upper back pain between his shoulder blades for the past six months, but had not had a back injury and his symptoms did not worsen or improve through stretching, Shu-Tien Clinic gastroenterologist Kang Pen-chu (康本初) said. Chang did not seek medical attention for the condition, but received a health examination at the clinic, where he was diagnosed with chronic gastritis, Kang said, adding that the man’s upper back pain was actually referred pain caused by the gastritis. Nerves of the digestive organs partially overlap with those of the upper back, so although the most common symptom of stomach diseases is abdominal pain, they can also trigger pain in the upper back, Kang said. Some people even perceive the back pain as more sev...

Gary Jennings’ experience with StationMD Nashville, TN–The Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ( DIDD ) has partnered with StationMD to provide telemedicine services to Tennessee residents with disabilities. StationMD is a telemedicine physician practice that’s dedicated to providing medical care to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Through this partnership, StationMD will be able to deliver 24/7 medical care to Tennessee residents with disabilities no matter where they live in the state. There are approximately   7,200 Tennessee residents with disabilities who are eligible to sign up and use StationMD’s services through their Medicaid Waiver program. In the current environment where it’s estimated that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are five times more likely to contract COVID-19 and have five times increased mortality from COVID-19. StationMD’s services aren’t just conven...

Back in mid September, some six months after the coronavirus pandemic reached Tennessee, Scott County had 182 cases of the virus among its residents. It’s taken just about five weeks for that number to double. As of Friday, there had been 362 Scott Countians infected by the virus. Active cases of the virus are ever climbing — up to 76 as of Friday — and there have now been five fatalities tied to the virus, while 22 people have been hospitalized — including three in the past week. As coronavirus cases surge, a breakdown of the data shows that the virus continues to impact mostly younger adults and youth. Since September 13, when there had been 182 cases of coronavirus in Scott County, 16.9% of new cases have been among people in their 30s, while 16.2% have been people in their teens or pre-teens, and another 16.2% have been people in their 40s. During that same time frame, people in their 20s have accounted for 13.4% of new cases. Children aged 10 or younger have accounted for 7.7%...

Gastrointestinal viruses often come along with community-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection (CA-CDI), CDC researchers said. Adult and pediatric patients with CA-CDI showed 12% prevalence of viral GI pathogens, norovirus being the most common, reported Alice Y. Guh, MD, MPH, of the CDC in Atlanta, reporting in PLoS One . Assessing 155 patients with stool-confirmed CA-CDI at five cross-country U.S. sites from December 2012 to February 2013, the investigators identified 18 CDI patients with such viruses: 10 norovirus, four adenovirus, three rotavirus, and one sapovirus. Co-infected patients were more likely than non-co-infected to have nausea or vomiting – 56% versus 31% ( P =0.04) – suggesting viral co-pathogens contributed to these symptoms in some. Paralleling earlier research, no significant differences emerged between the two groups in previous healthcare, medication exposures, or CDI outcomes complications. An earlier U.S. study of viral co-infections in pediatric ...

The 9-year-old son of Fatema Nekooie, MD, suddenly threw up on a weekend night in mid-June. Nekooie guessed she was up against a gastrointestinal virus and a sleepless night ― maybe two. A colleague in pediatrics affirmed her suspicions. But Kiarash's nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain were only the first in a series of unexplained symptoms that spurred an intense and ongoing medical investigation. Nekooei, a cardiologist in Bushehr, Iran, combined her roles as mother and physician and used every resource and connection she had. Nekooei and 9-year-old Kiarash. Kiarash's initial symptoms resolved after 5 days. But a few days after that, Nekooei noticed swelling and erythema of her son's genitals while she was bathing him. On the way to the emergency department, she called a urologist, who ordered labs and an ultrasound of the genital region. The sonography came back normal, but Kiarash's white blood cell (WBC) count was up to 21,000/μL, nearly double what it had be...

Artificial intelligence (AI) that outperforms human capability in image recognition is expected to be applied in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopes. Hence, its research and development is being actively led. With the advancement of endoscopic diagnosis, there is a lack of experts who can perform high-precision endoscopy. Artificial intelligence (AI), explicitly deep learning, offers the possibility to upgrade the field of GI endoscopy in areas from lesion detection and classification to quality metrics and documentation. Progress in this field will be estimated by whether AI usage can improve patient results and more proficient clinical workflow for GI endoscopists. Artificial intelligence will change the field of gastroenterology, especially endoscopy and image interpretation. Fueled by cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, the utilization of computer vision in endoscopy can bring about better prediction and treatment outcomes for patients with gastroenterology disord...

The AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad and Satisfai Health in Canada has announced a collaboration to transform Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal (GI) Endoscopy with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The partnership gives both the groups an opportunity to accelerate the development of Satisfai’s innovative suite of AI solutions across the spectrum and to establish Satisfai Health and AIG Hospitals as global leaders in this space.  Satisfai Health Inc. (the “Company” or “Satisfai Health”), a leading medical company providing artificial intelligence solutions in the field of Gastroenterology, has signed a data licensing and partnership agreement with AIG Hospitals, one of the leading hospitals in India, and the largest centre in Asia for therapeutic endoscopy, to help drive Satisfai’s mission to be the global leader in providing AI solutions in Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy.  This is for the first time in India that Artificial Intelligence will be used in gastroenterology and end...

If you are “hunkered down” on coronavirus lockdown like we are here in Israel at the moment, or nervous , or just curious , we offer you this Israeli perspective on major pandemics. In light of the present global outbreak and the attempts to stop it and find a vaccine, a short series on “Ten Great Plagues” was released by two Israelis: Journalist and historian Oren Nahari Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit, Dr. Galia Rahav. These two Israelis have produced a fascinating and instructive series, and what follows is a summary, together with additional items we thought would interest you. For what horrific plague were the Jews blamed? How did the Spanish Flu get its name? What plague did the newborn State of Israel face? How did cows help find a vaccine? Which plague was cured by Jews? When did people wear masks before corona? When will a coronavirus vaccine be found? Find the answers to these questions and more in this series.   The Black Death and anti-Semit...

Oct 5, 2020 11:00 AM ET iCrowd Newswire – Oct 5, 2020 Partnership gives both groups the exciting opportunity to accelerate development of Satisfai’s innovative suite of AI solutions across the spectrum of Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy, and to establish Satisfai Health and AIG Hospitals as global leaders in this space. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/ Hyderabad, Telangana, India , October 5, 2020 –  Satisfai Health Inc.  (the “ Company ” or “ Satisfai Health ”), a leading medical company providing artificial intelligence solutions in the field of Gastroenterology, has signed a data licensing and partnership agreement with AIG Hospitals, one of the leading hospitals in India, and the largest centre in Asia for therapeutic endoscopy, to help drive Satisfai’s mission to be the global leader in providing AI solutions in Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy. Satisfai Health has already achieved notable success in this domain as a founding member of the ai4gi joint venture...

For more than 50 years, Terry Wright had no idea he was suffering from cystic fibrosis. Oh, he was sick. So wracked by pain that from the time he was a child growing up in Little Rock he considered Arkansas Children's Hospital his second home. But the source of the agony in his gut was always misdiagnosed -- usually as a gastrointestinal virus, or perhaps ulcers (screenings of newborns for cystic fibrosis are now required in all 50 states). "I suffered as a child," Wright says. "It was a painful life. I would hide it from my parents and wouldn't let them know that I had problems. ... I would just push forward. I wanted to stay active and keep a good attitude." He never gave up on that whole good attitude thing. Despite his ailments, he excelled in sports, playing baseball and running track in school. As an adult, he completed multiple marathons, became an avid cyclist -- he's a founding member of the Major Taylor Cycling Club of Little Rock -- and w...

Despite a windy evening in the Butte County foothills, the evacuation notices that were lightened or lifted remain in place Thursday morning for areas under the North Complex fires, and fire officials say Highway 70 has not been breached, as of 7 p.m. Thursday. On Thursday night, officials also said that four heavy helicopters used water bucket drops to slow the fire’s momentum and guard against spotting across the highway while crews worked to reinforce dozer line out ahead of the fire. Fire crews numbering roughly 2,000 are working on further containment and contingency lines with heavy equipment on both sides of the Feather River Canyon. Crews continued to work overnight along Highway 70 to monitor for spot fires while watching out for rock and tree rollout making its way onto the road. Addressing a social media comment about a spot fire crossing the canyon in the Storrie area, Tracy LeClair, fire public information officer, told this publication Thursday morning, “All the i...