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The American Gastroenterological Association is the trusted voice of the GI community.
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09/26/2025

🤰 Researchers followed 377 pregnant women with IBD and found that when intestinal ultrasound (IUS) revealed active disease, the risk of complications like preterm delivery was higher — even when symptoms or stool tests suggested otherwise.

✅ These findings, published in Gastroenterology, highlight the importance of combining IUS + f***l calprotectin to monitor IBD in pregnancy and help guide treatment decisions.

📖 Read more here: https://ow.ly/q5bb50X126c

09/25/2025

⌛ Time is running out to nominate yourself or a colleague to serve in an AGA leadership role. From committees to course directors, these roles are your chance to help shape the future of GI and grow your professional impact along the way.

✔️ Elevate your voice
✔️ Build networks
✔️ Shape the future of GI

🔗 Apply or nominate someone today.
https://ow.ly/UyUI50WFkKB

09/19/2025

💡 New guideline alert!

Gastroparesis — a condition that slows or stops food movement from the stomach — can cause nausea, vomiting, pain, and major disruptions to daily life. The new AGA guideline provides 12 conditional recommendations for diagnosis and management.

The big takeaway? 👉 There’s no “one-size-fits-all” solution. Personalized care, shared decision-making, and continued research are key.

✅ Learn more about the recommendations and what they mean for patients and providers: https://ow.ly/GCCt50WZ7hw

09/18/2025

✨ Calling all Black women in health care! ✨
The ABGH NEXUS Conference 2025 is happening Oct. 3–5 at The Times Center in NYC, and it’s the ultimate space for Nurturing, Excelling, and Unifying Sisters in Medicine.
Expect: 💬 Deep conversations
🤝 Peer mentorship
🌱 Personal and professional growth
💖 A community that celebrates YOU
“No code-switching. No unspoken rules. Every person who attends leaves forever changed.” – Dr. Kimberly Manning
🎟️ Register by Sept. 19 and save: https://ow.ly/1rkj50WU8HV
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09/15/2025

👉 Ready to launch your research career? Apply for an AGA research scholar award that offers early-career investigators $300K over three years to support their breakthrough digestive disease work. Applications close Dec. 3.

Learn more about these substantial opportunities:
▪️AGA-Gastric Cancer Foundation Ben Feinstein Memorial Research Scholar Award in Gastric Cancer
▪️Research Scholar Award

🔗https://ow.ly/cqOO50WVgZx

09/12/2025

Dr. Jordan Axelrad explained it best that the future of GI depends on you. How will you help shape it?

🚀 From residency to retirement, there’s a leadership role for every stage of your GI career. Nominate yourself or a colleague, then apply by Oct. 6.

https://ow.ly/ipEk50WGCQe

09/11/2025

📢 Big news in GI care!

We’ve endorsed a new guideline from the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology — the first to address endoscopic management of nonvariceal, nonpeptic ulcer bleeding.

This guideline provides 19 conditional recommendations to guide clinicians treating patients with malignant tumors, Mallory-Weiss tears, Dieulafoy’s lesions, and gastric antral vascular ectasia.

➡️ Read the full guideline in the October issue of Gastroenterology:

09/10/2025

Living with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) can impact every aspect of daily life.

My EoE Life empowers adults with EoE to own every moment — by providing them with trusted tools, evidence-based guidance, and support for working toward remission and staying there.

Share with patients to help them thrive beyond their diagnosis: https://ow.ly/Ig9950WUhF1.

09/09/2025

⏰ Happening Friday!

👉 Don’t miss our Instagram Live on as Jeffrey Roberts talks with Andrea Shin, MD, MSCR, about the survey results and what they mean for the IBS community.

⏰11 a.m. PST & 2 p.m. ET
📅 Friday, Sept 12

Read more: https://ow.ly/2bck50WTtfv

09/05/2025

🧠 Study 1 from Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Stress and social factors disrupt the brain-gut-microbiome, driving cravings for high-calorie foods and contributing to obesity.

🍽️ Study 2 from Gastroenterology: First population study finds over one-third of adults with gut-brain disorders also have symptoms of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.

✨ The takeaway: To support better health, care must address not just what people eat, but why.

➡️ Read more here: https://ow.ly/3VF450WRjy9

09/04/2025

Our latest clinical practice update on functional lumen imaging probe (FLIP).

➡️ 11 expert tips on using FLIP in the evaluation of esophageal symptoms, GERD, and EoE.
➡️ Aligned with the new FLIP panometry classification scheme to standardize protocols and metrics.
➡️ Safe, quick, and provides real-time diagnostic insights for clinicians.

🔗 Read more here: https://ow.ly/wxb350WQwCY

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