For the first time, scientists have shown that an experimental bariatric surgery can lower blood sugar levels in rats with type 1 diabetes. For the first time, scientists at the Toronto General ...

When an orally administered drug dissolves, it must cross the intestinal wall, reach the liver via the portal circulation, and then enter the systemic circulation to distribute into various tissues in ...

Fat assimilation was determined by 219 daily balance studies in seven patients who had had massive distal pancreatectomy for pancreatitis with preservation of the integrity of the gut lumen.

A research team from Italy assessed the rate of spontaneous tube migration and compared the effects of naso-gastric and naso-intestinal (beyond the ligament of Treitz) feeding in severe acute ...