Disorder
How Can You Manage Diarrhea? Managing diarrhea can be tough. Diarrhea is best described as the too frequent and often urgent passage of loose or watery stools, but there is no perfect definition of the disorder. There are many causes, and diarrhea may be a mild nuisance or a disabling dysfunction with life-threatening consequences. Therefore, […]
Personal Story
Anonymous Personal Story: Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Hello, I have interviewed my younger brother about his disorder, Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. He is 11 this is his story not mine. How do you feel when a episode occurs? What are your personal symptoms? My stomach feels […]
Personal Story
Michael’s Personal Story: “The diagnosis of GERD is a dysfunctional one” This body is 62. I am fit, slim and active. In the past I was much the same. My mum tells me I almost died within weeks of my birth in Bristol UK. I was throwing up all the time; every feed was emptied […]
Personal Story
Melissa’s Personal Story: Gastroparesis: “Don’t ever be convinced that you can do nothing to help or that you don’t matter” In early February 2014, I spent a week in the hospital and was eventually diagnosed with gastroparesis. My life changed in ways I could not have imagined – overnight. One day, I was able to […]
Testimony
IFFGD Founder and President Nancy Norton presented the following testimony on behalf of IFFGD members at a June 27, 2000 Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee meeting on NDA 21-107, LOTRONEX (alosetron): Thank you, Members of the Committee. I hope you are not going to be tired of hearing from me […]
Testimony
IFFGD President, Ceciel Rooker, submitted the following written statement to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies regarding Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 appropriations for medical research and public health programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and related agencies on June 1, 2018: […]
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