New treatments, diagnoses for women and children with gastrointestinal disorders

Monday, May 3, 2010 - 16:41 in Health & Medicine

Undiagnosed and untreated pediatric hepatitis C is a grave concern, antibiotic use in the first year of life triples the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), drugs used to treat IBD in pregnant women are beginning to show that children at nine months are slightly developmentally delayed compared to non-use of this medication during pregnancy, and drugs commonly used to treat reflux in pregnant women may be associated with cardiac birth defects, according to data being presented at Digestive Disease Week.

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