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8 November, 2009
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Further information related to this fact sheet: Irritable bowel syndrome.

 
 
 

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References used for this fact sheet
    • Facts about irritable bowel syndrome [online], Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA). More information here.
    • ‘Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)’ [online], in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Merck & Co. More information here.
    • Tack, J., Fried, M., Houghton, L. A., Spicak, J. & Fisher, G. (2006) [online], ‘Systematic review: the efficacy of treatments for irritable bowel syndrome – a European perspective’, in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, July 15, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 183–205. More information here.
    • Evans, B. W., Clark, W. K., Moore, D. J. & Whorwell, P. J. (2004), ‘Tegaserod for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome’, in The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 1, CD003960. More information here.
    • Heading, R., Bardhan, K., Hollerbach, S., Lanas, A. & Fisher, G. (2006), ‘Systematic review: the safety and tolerability of pharmacological agents for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome – a European perspective’, in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, July 15, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 207-36. More information here.
 
 
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