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Digestive HealthHiatal Hernia Pain & Repair: Symptoms, Treatment 2025 NYC
Your diaphragm has a small hole (the hiatus) where your esophagus passes through to meet your stomach.
Dec 22, 2025Read
SymptomsStomach Cancer Symptoms, Risk Factors & Toby Keith Case 2025
Imagine this: You're Toby Keith, belting out anthems that make stadiums roar, then bam—life hands you a diagnosis that stops the music. In fall 2021, the country legend learned he had stomach cancer. He hit back hard with chemo, radiation, and surgery, even shrinking his tumor by
Dec 19, 2025Read
GERDGastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD): Lifestyle Changes & Treatment 2025
If you’re reading this at 2 a.m. propped up on three pillows, sipping baking soda water because the acid is crawling up your throat again — this blog is for you.
Dec 17, 2025Read
Weight & DietNon-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): How Common & ICD-10 Code
* 1 in 3 American adults has NAFLD * 70–90% of people with BMI >30 have fat in their liver * Up to 25% of those will progress to NASH (the version that scars and destroys the liver) * NAFLD is now the FASTEST-growing cause of liver cancer and liver transplants in the United State
Dec 17, 2025Read
Weight & DietJelly Roll Weight Loss: Inspiration for Your Journey – Connect with Weight Management at Vanguard
**Jelly Roll weight loss** began gaining public notice in 2023, tied to training for a 5K run. By April 2025, he shared on Pat McAfee's show that he had dropped from 540 pounds to 357 pounds, aiming for another 100 pounds lost to skydiving with his wife in Sweden. In August 2025,
Dec 10, 2025Read
Digestive HealthColorectal Cancer Symptoms: Stage 4 & Back Pain Truth
You're 38. You hit the gym. You grab a green juice on your commute. You feel _invincible_. Then one day, you see blood in the toilet. You think: “Hemorrhoids.” Six months later, you’re in an oncologist’s office hearing: **“Colorectal cancer, stage 4.”**
Nov 13, 2025Read
EndoscopyGut-Brain Axis Explained: Diagnosing Stress-Related Issues with EUS & Upper Endoscopy | Gastro NYC
The gut-brain axis is a highly complex system of communication between the central nervous system, enteric nervous system (so-called second brain), hormones and microbiota. This two-way communication affects the regulation of mood, the immune system, and the intake of nutrients.
Oct 30, 2025Read
MicrobiomeFMT for Microbiome Health & Gut Disorders 2025
Your intestinal ecosystem is a fertile home to trillions of bacteria, fungi and even viruses and the bacteria, fungi, and viruses are the key players in digestion, immunity as well as mental health. Alterations of the microbiota may result in various disorders, known as dysbiosis
Oct 23, 2025Read
Weight & DietGLP-1 Therapies for Weight Management 2025 | Gastro NYC
GLP-1 therapies have become revolutionary in the changing environment of metabolic health, and they are used by those who want to have a long-lasting body weight management. With the advent of 2025, these drugs, which replicate the intestinal hormone glucagon-like peptide-1, to c
Oct 22, 2025Read
Liver HealthFibroScan: Non-Invasive Liver Health Monitoring
It comes at an opportune moment in the month of October 2025 as we observe Liver Awareness Week (LAW) because now is the time to give much thought to one of the strongest yet least recognized organs in the body, the liver. This giant blocks toxins, controls metabolism and aids di
Oct 21, 2025Read
EndoscopyUpper Endoscopy Near Me in NYC: Expert Care
When you are searching to locate a good upper endoscopy in my locality, New York, NY, you are likely to need facts about the problems of your digestive well-being. We perform professional upper endoscopies in Vanguard Gastroenterology in order to diagnose and cure diseases like a
Oct 1, 2025Read
GERDHydrocortisone USP 2.5 Cream for Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids may be painful, swelling, itchy, and difficult to live with. We know how inconvenient these symptoms can be at Vanguard Gastroenterology in New York, NY. Hydrocortisone USP 2.5 cream is one of the effective and active over-the-counter medicines that could help in this
Sep 30, 2025Read