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...gastroenterological illnesses and diseases. Her special interests include inflammatory bowel disease, hepatitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. Ruhl is a graduate of Bemidji State University and the College of St. Scholastica where she obtained her nurse...

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FDA panel considers patients' pleas to bring back bowel drug

...relief from devastating irritable bowel syndrome. The once-popular bowel...who have a certain type of irritable bowel syndrome and have exhausted other...experienced in treating the irritable bowel syndrome could prescribe Lotronex...

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Bowel drug likely to return

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- A once-popular drug for irritable bowel syndrome appears headed back to the market with tough new restrictions. Heeding pleas from patients desperate to regain what they called...

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Safety questions plague bowel-disease drug fast-tracked by FDA

...Administration is now re-evaluating the safety of Lotronex, a drug intended to treat women with a nonfatal disorder, irritable bowel syndrome. But a Los Angeles Times investigation of the FDA's handling of Lotronex found that, over the past year...

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Health
Bowel drug pulled from market

WASHINGTON --A popular drug recently approved for irritable bowel syndrome was pulled from the market Tuesday after sending dozens of people to the hospital and possibly causing the deaths of at least three...

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Health
FDA plans to bring back controversial drug

...women with diarrhea symptoms of what is known as irritable bowel syndrome. The condition can cause pronounced abdominal...to go to the bathroom on a moment's notice. Irritable bowel syndrome, however, is not life threatening, and Lotronex...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/053001/hea_0530010007.shtml
Health
Drug Lotronex's re-approval greeted by cheers, resistance

...who were so encumbered by irritable bowel syndrome that many plotted their...severe diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome who have exhausted all available...risks of the medication. Irritable bowel syndrome also can be typified by...

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Open Forum

...damages the small intestine. A delay in diagnosis increases one's risk of developing other autoimmune diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, neurological problems, osteoporosis, birth defects, cancer, and symptoms too numerous to list. In Europe...

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Opinion
Just what is celiac disease?

...complications like malnutrition. Celiac disease is often under diagnosed or misdiagnosed and sometimes confused with irritable bowel syndrome or iron-deficiency anemia caused by menstrual blood loss. The only treatment is for the patient to follow...

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...instruction for a two-hour workshop on an ailment afflicting nearly one-fifth of the adult American population - irritable bowel syndrome. About 30 million Americans have symptoms consistent with IBS. It generally affects women more often than men...

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