Main Written Summaries Listing Audio-Digest Foundation: Archived Written Summaries: Gastroenterology: 2006 HEPATITIS C VIRUS Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 12 December 1, 2006 Predicting sustained virologic response – F. Fred Poordad, MD Rule for treatment success – Mitchell L. Shiffman, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. THE STOMACH, PYLORUS, AND BEYOND! Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 11 November 1, 2006 How to diagnose and treat neuromuscular disorders of the stomach – Kenneth L. Koch, MD Enteral access beyond the pylorus: when and how – Mark A. Schattner, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. HEPATITIS B Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 10 October 1, 2006 HBV therapy: PEG–interferon and nucleoside/tide analogues – Kris V. Kowdley, MD Chronic HBV in children – Maureen M. Jonas, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 09 September 1, 2006 Barrett's esophagus: state of the art – Richard E. Sampliner, MD Endoscopic treatment of esophageal/gastric cancer – Michael Kochman, MD Barrett's esophagus and cancer: overview or overdone? – Brennan M.R. Spiegel, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. FUNCTIONAL GI DISORDERS Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 08 August 1, 2006 Genetic factors in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) – Anthony Lembo, MD Traditional and novel treatment of IBS in adults – Lin Chang, MD Management of pediatric pain – Lonnie Zeltzer, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. From Child To Adult, Sponsored By The David Geffen School Of Medicine At The University Of California, Los Angeles, And The Center For Neurovisceral Sciences And Women's Health GI GRAB BAG Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 07 July 1, 2006 Probiotics in clinical practice: fact or fantasy – Robert G. Martindale, MD, PhD Transgastric and transcolonic therapy for intraperitoneal disease – Bruce V. MacFayden, MD Your permanent record: how the national practitioner data bank works – Andrew Newton, JD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. MORE GI CANCER Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 06 June 1, 2006 Surgical therapy for gastric cancer – D. Scott Lind, MD Current concepts in pancreatic cancer – Thomas N. Wang, MD, PhD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. GI PRACTICE MANAGEMENT Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 05 May 1, 2006 Setting up an ambulatory surgery center – Charles N. Friedlander, MD The future of reimbursement – Ira S. Goldman, MD Litigation against the endoscopist – Jerome H. Siegel, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. PROBLEMS IN THE GI TRACT Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 04 April 1, 2006 Celiac disease – Jack A. Di Palma, MD Infectious diarrhea – Richard Goodgame, MD The odor of flatus and what we can do about it – Michael D. Levitt, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. HURTS AND HELPS Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 03 March 1, 2006 Drug hepatotoxicity – Jeffrey S. Crippin, MD Update on clinical nutrition: does it make a difference? – Robert G. Martindale, MD Radiofrequency ablation for liver tumors – Ronald Zagoria, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. GI CANCER UPDATE Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 02 February 1, 2006 Screening for hepatobiliary malignancy – Paul Martin, MD Hepatocellular cancer: resection vs transplant – Jeffrey A. Lowell, MD Cholangiocarcinoma: resection vs transplant – William C. Chapman, MD Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program. Highlights from Liver Disease: Therapeutic Challenges, sponsored by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis HEPATITIS Audio-Digest Gastroenterology Volume 20, Issue 01 January 1, 2006 Hepatitis C – Emmet B. Keeffe, MD Hepatitis B – Dr. Keeffe Understanding and treating nonviral causes of chronic hepatitis – Sammy Saab, MD, MPH Click here to read an abstracted written summary of this program.