The human system for excretion is actually pretty great, especially when you compare it with what many other members of the animal kingdom have. Qai Publishing/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty Images
Have you ever stopped to appreciate your anus? Laugh all you want, but this bodily orifice is a highly evolved engineering marvel, and it s hard to imagine life without it.
Your anus has a very sensitive job. It s tasked with determining whether solid, liquid or gas pushes up against the sphincter – and then it has to selectively let some or all of it through to the other side. Fortunately, this end of the digestive system is packed with nerve endings to aid in this delicate game of who goes there?
No Biopsy Needed to Accurately Diagnose Celiac Disease in Nearly All Adults
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In a potentially game-changing move, new research supports the elimination of biopsy in the diagnosis of most cases of adult celiac disease, in favor of the no-biopsy approach. However, this approach has not yet been widely adopted into clinical practice for diagnosing adults, mainly due to a limited international multi-center data, and testing in groups with low celiac disease rates. New research confirms that most adults do not require a biopsy for a reliable celiac disease diagnosis. A recent study by a team of researchers showed that a 10-fold increase in serum IgA antitissue transglutaminase (tTG) antibody levels has high predictive capacity and diagnostic reliability for detecting small intestinal injur