At 24 years old, Danielle Perea was newly enrolled in a clinical lab science master's program, living with her boyfriend in Louisiana, and generally enjoying her life — until one day, a stomachache ...

STANFORD, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Cynthia Cathey has been on an unimaginable journey ever since her newborn son was diagnosed with a rare condition called short bowel syndrome. It affects only 46 ...

When Joshua Weiner begins to talk about his research at transplantation conferences, he sometimes starts by showing the ...

Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Haim Biton hasn’t eaten anything for 17 years – not even a sandwich or an apple. Living without a functioning digestive system, he was forced to rely on total parenteral ...

Intestinal transplantation is considered for patients with irreversible intestinal failure who are unable to tolerate long-term total parenteral nutrition, a condition associated with serious ...

Patients with short bowel syndrome are the most complex of patients in gastroenterology. Proper management of these patients -- to treat and to avoid disease and therapy-related complications in a ...

Launched in 2017, the program marked a significant step in expanding transplant services in the Kingdom, becoming the first of its kind in the Gulf Cooperation Council to provide intestinal and ...