Sentence examples for gastrointestinal from inspiring English sources

Various specialities at the hospital, particularly those dealing with urology and lower gastrointestinal cancer, were at risk of breaching the required standard and it was alleged that data had been altered to address these concerns.

Back in the Bristol Royal Infirmary, on the eighth floor, senior nursing assistant Alison Sweeting, 50, is in the sluice room of a gastrointestinal surgery ward, filling a bowl with warm water to give a patient a bed bath.

In all, 109 hospital trusts missed the 62-day target for lower gastrointestinal cancers, 100 did so with urological cancers and 96 with lung cancer, Macmillan's analysis of the figures shows.

That included just 73.3% of those with lower gastrointestinal cancer, such as bowel cancer; 75.3% of lung cancer cases; and 78% of people with a urological cancer, which affects the bladder or kidneys.

Dirty drinking water and bad sanitation cause gastrointestinal illnesses which prevent the body from absorbing nutrients.

That one is still sold, with decidedly unglamorous gastrointestinal effects.Now a new batch of medicines is coming on the market.

The most clinically advanced devices focus on the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract, since it is easily accessible and can accommodate objects several centimetres in size.

This means it is less likely to cause the gastrointestinal problems associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, so it is safe for long-term use.

Since the technology can operate at depths of several centimetres, its champions hope that within a few years it will be able to help guide biopsy needles deep within tissue, assist with gastrointestinal endoscopies and measure oxygen levels in vascular and lymph nodes, thereby helping to determine whether tumours are malignant or not.

For each instance of chaos, there is calm; of poverty, there is progress; of traffic, there is teaching; and of gastrointestinal misery, there is gastronomic delight.

After five years, death rates for all cancers fell by 35% and for gastrointestinal cancers by 54%.