More and more people are being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This disease is insidious, often only making itself known in ...

Type 3c diabetes, also known as pancreatogenic diabetes, is a form of diabetes that develops as a direct result of disease or damage to the pancreas.

The PAC-MANN test was able to differentiate — 98% of the time — between the blood of someone with pancreatic cancer and the blood of someone who doesn’t have the disease. When used alongside the ...

A pancreatic elastase test, also known as a stool elastase, FE-1, or fecal elastase test, measures how much elastase is in your poop. Elastase is an enzyme produced by the pancreas during the ...

Fatty pancreas disease, characterized by intra-pancreatic fat deposition, is more prevalent than diabetes, pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer combined. Is its significance being overlooked?

Gut microbes can regulate the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas and hormone production of the gastrointestinal tract, findings that may help develop potential treatments for diabetes ...

So when Amanda Andersson-Rolf, a postdoctoral researcher in Hans Clevers’s group at the Hubrecht Institute, set out to build a better pancreatic organoid, she decided to include all three main cell ...

Cancer patients and others with debilitating conditions have highlighted shortages of a vital drug they say have had a ...

Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency is a condition where, the body's pancreas is not producing the enzymes it needs to help break down foods. In turn, they can have various symptoms such as bloating ...

Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (Pert) provides the enzymes people affected by pancreatic cancer need to absorb nutrients. Not being able to take the correct dose of Pert could leave them ...

Creon, a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (Pert), helps digestion, but has been hard to obtain for the last year and shortages are predicted to last until 2026. It is thought more than 61,000 ...