Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatment Bowel Urgency
Article updated and reviewed by Christian D. Stone, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine on May 19, 2005.
IBS is known by various other names such as irritable colon, spastic colon, spastic bowel, and functional bowel...
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