Our use of proven equipment and sterilization procedures provides patients the highest level of confidence. You may have seen news reports this spring about a number of hospital patients in California who were infected with a powerful bacterium between October 2014 and January 2015. As many as 179 patients may have been exposed to Carbapenem-Resistant...Read More

“For the last thirty years, the best we could do for our patients with celiac disease was advise them to go on a gluten-free diet. Not only is complying with this diet difficult, contamination introduces gluten to many supposedly gluten-free foods. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of patients who rigorously follow the diet, will still experience...Read More

Living microorganisms in foods and supplements may provide health benefits. The challenge is in discovering which ones to use. The average person has several trillions of microorganisms which inhabit their body and particulalry the gut.  Most of these microorganisms are bacteria but they also consist of other organisms such as yeast. This community of microorganisms...Read More

Biologics have been effective for many patients, but not for all. New drugs, with new mechanisms of action, promise more help and hope. Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affecting the lining of the digestive tract, often spreading deep into the lining of the affected organ. The cause of the disease remains a...Read More

We don’t usually think about the contraction of muscles (motility) that moves the food we eat through our digestive systems. Yet, it is a complex progression and if these contractions function abnormally, anywhere in the process, it can result in unwelcome symptoms. With each bite of food or sip of liquid, the body begins a...Read More