Your Burning Chest: How to Stop Acid Reflux and GERD
Learn what causes your stomach acid to bubble up into your esophagus—and what to do about it.
GERD and Acid Reflux
Category: Digestive Health
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: How to Spot and Treat It
This inherited condition can increase your patients’ risk of lung and liver disease.
Liver Health
Esophageal Condition on the Rise, May Be Connected to Food Allergies
Patients with trouble swallowing may have eosinophilic esophagitis, which can be treated at UNC Health Care.
Digestive Health, Food Allergies
What’s the Difference Between Hepatitis A, B and C?
Understand the types of hepatitis and learn how to protect yourself
Infectious Diseases, Liver Health
Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM): A Less Invasive Achalasia Treatment
UNC center one of few in region regularly performing specialized procedure on esophagus
Gastroenterology
Milk thistle, taken by many people for liver disease, ineffective a...
Silymarin or “milk thistle,” a popular herbal dietary supplement that many people take for liver ailments, works no better than placebo in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection.
Chronic Illness, Clinical Trials, Hepatitis C, Hepatology, Nutrition, Treatment, Wellness