A new study published in the journal of Gastroenterology Research showed that alcohol-related chronic pancreatitis (ARCP) is ...

A pregnant woman is going in to surgery. She is laying on an operating table in the hospital’s operating room. Surgeons surround the bed preparing for the medical procedure. Researchers sought to ...

A retrospective analysis of hospital discharge records from the National Inpatient Sample database between 2009 and 2019 was conducted. The sample included 3094 pregnancies with chronic pancreatitis ...

Each year, an estimated 275,000 people are treated for pancreatitis, which occurs when the pancreas becomes inflamed. Even though the pancreas isn’t talked about very much, it’s a hugely important ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a critical hormone that regulates blood sugar in the body. Scientists at Scripps ...

A Europe-wide study led by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) shows that the microbial composition of the gut, ...

A patient is diagnosed with acute pancreatitis How can a clinician distinguish chronic pancreatitis from acute pancreatitis in a patient with alcohol-abuse history? A 44-year-old male patient with a ...

Disclosure: The author declares that he owns the patent for testing for PRSS1 mutations, and has just licensed the patent to Ambry Genetics, Irvine, CA. He also serves as a consultant for Ambry ...

Dr. Vikas Dudeja, Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UAB, has been awarded a $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). This prestigious funding, granted through the ...

Pancreatic cancer is a rare disease; however, its initially inconspicuous symptoms and aggressive nature make it one of the ...

Lycoming College sociology major Alexis Robinson ’26 from Aston, Pa., was recently honored by the National Pancreas Foundation with the Hero of Hope award at the Courage for a Cure Gala in Pittsburgh.