ConsultantLive Presents Special Coverage from the Digestive Disease Week 2014 Conference

NORWALK, Conn., May 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Medica US announces that ConsultantLive.com, a leading online community for primary care physicians, offers special reports and coverage from the Digestive Disease Week 2014 conference.

Highlights of this premier gastroenterology conference covered on ConsultantLive.com:

• Treat the GERD and Sleep Will Follow: Does sleep improve in asymptomatic patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease when their reflux is treated aggressively? Researchers offered an answer.
• A Medical Device to Relieve Constipation: An oral capsule that vibrates as it moves through the digestive tract may become a unique nonpharmacological treatment for chronic constipation.
• Probiotics Enhance Eradication of H Pylori When Added to Standard Therapy:  Two studies have found that probiotics, when added to standard triple therapy, enhance cure rate and may reduce treatment side effects and disease symptoms.
• Higher Mortality in Lean, Not Obese, Patients With Fatty Liver Disease:  A multicenter, 1090-patient, retrospective, 20-year study of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease produced surprising results.

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