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Compromised nutritional, immunological status ups infection risk after gastric cancer surgery
Infection is a common complication in gastric cancer stage II/III patients after gastrectomy, a recent study has found. A low prognostic nutritional index score seems to be an important risk factor for such an outcome.

GI symptoms in T1D linked to microvascular complications
A recent study has demonstrated the importance of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms as a clinical morbidity and that these symptoms are associated with increasing age, duration of type 1 diabetes (T1D), haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and microvascular complications, but not with autoimmune comorbidities including coeliac disease (CD).

Investigational drug gains upper hand over placebo in reducing CDI recurrence rates
SER-109, an investigational oral microbiome therapeutic, achieves superiority over placebo in reducing recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) rates, according to updated findings from the phase III ECOSPOR-III trial.





