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You Should Always Watch What You Eat, Especially If You Are Over 50

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on September 23, 2013
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Read More: calcium, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, constipation, digestive health, protein, vitamins

Foods that Relieve Constipation: Help Get Things Flowing Again

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on September 20, 2013
Foods that Relieve Constipation: Help Get Things Flowing Again
A person is considered constipated when their bowel movements have become infrequent and/or difficult. A telling sign a person is constipated is if they have not had a bowel movement in three days. This is extremely unhealthy because stool that has not passed will become harder and more difficult to pass, leading to problems like […]
Read More: constipation, digestive health, fiber, IBS, irritable bowel syndrome

San Francisco Gastroenterology Introduces Our Patient Portal

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on September 18, 2013
San Francisco Gastroenterology Introduces Our Patient Portal
San Francisco Gastroenterology is now offering a Patient Portal that will provide our patients with easy access to our office and services. After filling out a brief registration form, patients will be able to utilize a number of convenient services through the Patient Portal, including: Confidential electronic communication with physician and staff [...]
Read More: Bay Area Gastroenterologist, Gastrointestinal Disorders, patient portal, San Francisco Gastroenterology

Changing Your Diet May Help with IBS Symptoms

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on September 13, 2013
Changing Your Diet May Help with IBS Symptoms
Irritable bowel syndrome is marked by abdominal pain and constipation and/or diarrhea. Other symptoms include feeling bloated, gas, stomach gurgling and the discharge of mucus from the rectum. While IBS’s symptoms are known, its causes are somewhat of a mystery. Physicians have attributed this condition to many factors, including gastrointestinal [...]
Read More: feeling bloated, IBS, indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, stomach pain

Endoscopy Can Improve Cancer Survival Rates by Helping Doctors Detect Warning Signs Early

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on September 10, 2013
Endoscopy Can Improve Cancer Survival Rates by Helping Doctors Detect Warning Signs Early
X-rays are commonly used to show physical changes in a person’s body that are not normal and may only give general information on where such a change is occurring, its shape and size. An endoscopy, on the other hand, permits a more detailed look at the upper GI tract and allows a physician to accurately […]
Read More: abdominal pain, celiac disease, endoscopy, nausea, upper Gi

You’re Never Too Young to be at High Risk for Colon Cancer

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on September 9, 2013
You’re Never Too Young to be at High Risk for Colon Cancer
A recent partnership between the Colon Cancer Alliance, Bowel Cancer UK and the Colon Cancer Prevention Project was created to launch the Never Too Young campaign to warn people about the rise in colon cancer diagnoses and mortality rates in people younger than 50 years old; it is typically referred to as young-onset. Colon cancer […]
Read More: Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, The American Cancer Society, young-onset
 
 

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