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NEWS ABOUT: stomach

stomach stories: 6 news summaries

 Gut Bacteria Can Make You Fat 

Unhealthy diet encourages efficient micro-organisms

Nov 12, 09 2:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Eating junk food may do a double whammy on your waistline: In addition to the calorie influx, high-fat foods alter intestinal bacteria, actually making it easier to get fat. Obese mice in a new study had significantly more of a specific type of bacteria, Firmicutes, that easily convert food into... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • bacteria • junk food • intestines • weight gain • stomach • digestion • Firmicutes

Bypass Surgery Looks More and More Like Diabetes Cure

No one knows why, but docs are embracing bypass as a cure

Oct 26, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just why it works is still murky, but the connection between gastric bypass surgery and the reduction—or even elimination—of diabetes is so strong that some doctors are suggesting it as a treatment. “We may have a cure for diabetes,” one tells the Los Angeles Times.... More »

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medical research • doctor • intestines • type 2 diabetes • gastric banding surgery • stomach • gastric bypass

 Surgeons 
 Remove 
 6 Organs to 
 Save Girl, 7 

Child has six vital organs removed so doctors can find a cancerous tumor

Mar 10, 09 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - A smiling 7-year-old was released from a New York hospital today after surgeons undertook a rare, high-risk operation to save her life, USA Today reports. The operation, performed last month, called for surgeons to temporarily remove her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and large and small intestines in order to... More »

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cancer • surgery • New York • pancreas • stomach • malignant tumor • spleen • Heather McNamara

Stomach Pain Lands Jesse Jackson in Hospital

Chicago docs suspect viral gastroenteritis

Sep 4, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson is being treated in a Chicago hospital today, after being admitted last night with stomach pains, the Tribune reports. Jackson began to feel ill earlier this week, while campaigning for Barack Obama in Georgia. Doctors believe he has viral gastroenteritis, but are conducting more tests. “I have... More »

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Jesse Jackson • hospital • stomach problems • stomach

 How Do
 They Do It?
 It's Not Pretty 

Want a permanently elastic, balloon-like stomach? Try competitive eating

Jul 3, 08 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - For every time you watched a scrawny guy chow dozens of hot dogs in 12 minutes and wondered where, exactly, he puts it, scientists may have your answer. As compared with us mere mortals, the Wall Street Journal reports, a professional’s stomach appears as a “giant balloon... More »

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weird • Takeru Kobayashi • Joey Chestnut • hot dogs • scientific study • stomach • competitive eating • digestion

New Aspirin Spares Users Stomachaches

Italian scientists
alter key molecule
in painkiller

Mar 18, 08 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Aspirin is one of the world’s top painkillers, but it has a nasty way of attacking the stomach lining. That could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a team of Italian researchers who have molecularly altered the drug. The new aspirin “has no side effects,... More »

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medicine • painkiller • pharmaceutical • aspirin • clinical trials • stomach • molecules

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