Gut Feelings – Blog

As the Rome Foundation grows in the degree and scope of its educational and research activities in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interactions (DGBI), we have found the need to broaden the leadership. Since its inception more than 30 years ago, the…

by Douglas Drossman, MD   The Rome Foundation’s mission to further the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of gut-brain interactions (DGBI) made exciting strides this fall with three groundbreaking articles published in the prestigious journal Gastroenterology in just over…

Written by Brian Lacy, MD      In Part One of my posts on bloating and distension, we discussed how we define these issues, what the most common symptoms are, and the usual reasons behind them. We’ll now move forward…

Written by Brian Lacy, MD    Symptoms of gas, bloating and distension are quite common. This blog (Part 1 of 2) focuses on the scope of the problem and reviews common reasons for bloating and distension to occur.  Definition and…

Written by Jordyn Feingold, MD, MSCR, MAPP                      You’ve all likely heard the following philosophical thought experiment regarding the phenomena of observation and perception: “If a tree falls in a forest,…

Written by Xiucai Fang, MD – Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing and Jianbin Zhang, MD – Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing                      What is Acupuncture? Acupuncture is a treatment method,…

Written by Douglas A. Drossman, MD From Stigma to Acceptance Recently, I was honored to do two interviews, one for the cover story of ACG magazine and the other, a podcast for the Healio series Gut Talk, by my fellow…

Written by Giovanni Barbara, MD Professor of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology University of Bologna Italy Non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), also popularly known as ‘gluten sensitivity’ is a condition characterized by intestinal and extra-intestinal symptoms related to the ingestion of gluten…

A blog series on the epidemiology of DGBIs by Ami Sperber, MD, MSPH Over the course of 2020 the term epidemiology has become a universally recognized concept for all the wrong reasons. With the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, we…

Written by Douglas A. Drossman, MD and Jennie Rambo. Over forty years ago, when I was completing my GI fellowship, I put together a series of luncheon meetings for GI faculty and fellows at UNC Medical Center where we could…