On the whole, treatment is more efficacious for individual symptoms of IBS than for global symptoms. There are no randomized controlled trial (RCT) data on laxatives in IBS, but a single small study ...

Millions of people afflicted by irritable bowel syndrome can now be diagnosed quickly and accurately with two simple blood tests developed by a Cedars-Sinai gastroenterologist. The tests, created by ...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) types include IBS with constipation (IBS-C), IBS with diarrhea (IBS-D), and IBS with mixed bowel habits (IBS-M). A fourth type, IBS-U, is defined when stool consistency ...

Brittany Dube is a public health professional with expertise in health education and community health. She works for her local Department of Health as a Behavioral Health, Health Promotion, and ...