She’s only 17, but Jessica Chrzan is at the forefront of an effort to do a better job of monitoring a disease that makes her nauseated. Chrzan participated in a University of Illinois at Chicago ...

The string test, which is also called the Entero-test, is a test used to find parasites in the upper part of your gastrointestinal tract. To perform the test, you swallow a string. When the string is ...

Chennai: Australian physician and Nobel laureate Dr Barry J Marshall, who in the 1980s ingested ulcer-causing bacteria H pylori for a research study to prove it causes ulcers, is now working on a ...

Wireless capsule endoscopy for the detection of esophageal pathology is associated with inadequate visualization of the esophagus, due in part to unreliable esophageal transit time. The attachment of ...

A new minimally invasive test could be used to aid diagnosis of eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) and monitor treatment effects. The oesophageal string test (EST) can be used to collect samples from the ...

Hundreds of people with persistent heartburn or acid reflux will be offered a “sponge on a string” test in high-street pharmacies for the first time. NHS England is piloting a new way of preventing ...

The sponge on a string pill test could transform the way oesophageal cancer is picked up (PA) Hundreds of people with persistent heartburn or acid reflux will be offered a “sponge on a string” test in ...

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