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HELSINKI, Finland (MedPage Today) -- patients who undergo liver transplantation are more likely to get cancer than the general population, researchers here found.

EVANSTON, Ill. (MedPage Today) -- Even if the colonoscope comes up empty, an investigative endoscope that measures predysplastic epithelial microvascular blood content may one day score paydirt in colon cancer screening, researchers here said.

A new study shows that the DNA of so-called "good bacteria" that normally live in the intestines may help defend the body against infection. The findings, available Oct. 2 online in the journal Immunity, are reported by Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D., and her colleagues in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the national institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of health.