Detecting Ibs By Listening To Your Gut
Barry Marshall, MD, an Australian physician who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the link between stomach ulcers and the bacteria H. pylori, wants to change that. He’s devised what may be a simple, noninvasive way to diagnose IBS — by listening to the sounds produced in patients’ digestive tracts. He’s calling it the Noisy Guts Project. The Noisy Guts Project is testing the use of an acoustic belt that listens to and records the grumblings of your gut....