Gastroenterology and Digestion

Source-derived questions

Questions extracted from the papers in this topic, excluding the curated questions above.

• How did beta-blockers and H2 receptor antagonists change the treatment of heart disease and peptic ulcers?
• How did constipation measurably affect scorpion courtship success and reproduction?
• How has dysentery historically affected military campaigns more than combat itself?
• What bowel preparation protocols did Ben-Soussan and Antonietti recommend to reduce combustible gas before surgery?
• What did Horiuchi learn about patient comfort and positioning during colonoscopy from self-experimentation?
• What did Patricia Yang's team find in the wombat's intestinal tissue that explains the cube shape?
• What symptoms did Marshall develop after infecting himself, and how was he cured?
• What was the prevailing medical explanation for peptic ulcers before Warren and Marshall's work?
• What were the clear plaques d'Hérelle noticed in his bacterial cultures, and why didn't he dismiss them as contamination?
• Why did Akira Horiuchi choose to perform colonoscopies on himself rather than on volunteers?
• Why did researchers ask appendicitis patients about pain over speed bumps on the way to hospital?
• Why do patients with pernicious anaemia fail to absorb vitamin B12 from ordinary food?

Sources

• Félix d'Hérelle discovers bacteriophages
• Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
• Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
• Ig Nobel Prize in Diagnostic Medicine
• Ig Nobel Prize in Medical Education
• Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Ig Nobel Prize in Physics
• Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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