Category: Medical News

G-POEM: non-invasive pyloroplasty

G-POEM: non-invasive pyloroplasty

by | Dec 2, 2016 | Medical News, Research

by Jim Sliney Jr For patients whose primary symptoms of gastroparesis are nausea and vomiting, and in whom other gastric procedures have failed, there is a hopeful procedure and a related study going on. G-POEM stands for Gastric per-oral Endoscopic Myotomy, which is...

FDA Meeting on Compounding Domperidone

by | Nov 7, 2015 | Medical News

On October 28, 2015 there was an FDA meeting to discuss the request from the Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) to allow compounding pharmacies in the United States to compound domperidone.    Below are notes from that meeting. The FDA presented...
Communicating with your Doctor

Communicating with your Doctor

by | Nov 7, 2015 | Medical News

A beginner’s guide to understanding medical terminology, Jim Sliney Jr, November 2015 I have spent almost 25 years working in medicine as a Medical Assistant. I’ve worked in several different departments, doing both clinical and research work. Thousands of...

Fecal Transplants

by | Feb 6, 2015 | Medical News

Writer: Sam Hyde, M.S. PhD, MPH One of our members recently saw a TV show PBS series called ‘Second Opinion’ where fecal transplants were discussed as having a 91% success rate for curing C-Diff. Since people with digestive tract issues many times have...