A new $3.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant is helping University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) researchers delve into one of the body’s most fascinating processes ...

Patients with SSc who have gastric dysmotility present with a more severe disease phenotype and are associated with an increased risk for adverse outcomes.

A small study of children with eosinophilic esophagitis found that certain patients might benefit from gastric emptying nuclear medicine studies. Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is characterized by ...

Patients taking a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) experience only a modest delay in gastric emptying of solid foods and no significant delay for liquids compared with those ...

Physician anesthesiologists prefer that laboring women have an empty stomach because of the lower risk for aspiration (inhaling) of food in case general anesthesia for cesarean section becomes ...

Gas and bloating are common, but persistent symptoms may signal a gut motility disorder affecting digestion. Conditions like ...

Differing professional viewpoints, a lack of diagnostic standards, and regulatory roadblocks to new medications are among the factors hindering progress in treating people with gastroparesis, but ...

Whether you're sorting out the symptoms of an undiagnosed condition or grappling with the weight of a recent diagnosis, gastroparesis can be a complicated and daunting disease to navigate. You'll ...

The use of marijuana and new weight loss pharmaceuticals can have an impact on gastric emptying scans commonly used to evaluate patients with gastrointestinal complaints. With the increased usage of ...

This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key takeaways: Stomach paralysis is a condition that slows or stops the movement of food from the stomach to the intestines. Ozempic slows down ...