Stomach cancer risk is higher for Asian Americans

Asian Americans, particularly Korean Americans, are at an unusually high risk for stomach cancer, research shows.

Stanford • futurity
Dec. 21, 2022 ~6 min

Want your pills to work faster? Posture matters

Want your medication to take effect faster? Stand up straight. Posture can cut as much as an hour in the time it takes for your meds to start working.

Jill Rosen-Johns Hopkins • futurity
Aug. 15, 2022 ~5 min


Stomach ulcer bacterium likes bleach. Is that a way to beat it?

Our immune cells can make "the same chemical compound that you would use to disinfect a countertop." And H. pylori likes it.

Lewis Taylor-U. Oregon • futurity
Sept. 6, 2019 ~4 min

Probiotics can’t evict this bug from tiny stomach pits

H. pylori survives in the hellish, acidic stomach by holing up inside pitlike glands and establishing squatter's rights.

Bruce Goldman-Stanford • futurity
May 6, 2019 ~8 min

MRI shows how zap could cure stomach woes

A method that uses MRI to show how sending an electric impulse to the vagus nerve can correct stomach complications may lead to more precise treatments.

Kayla Wiles-Purdue • futurity
Nov. 6, 2018 ~4 min

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