Yasmin Nasser

BACKGROUND: Novel treatment options for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) are needed. Previous studies have assessed mepolizumab (mepo), a monoclonal antibody against IL-5, with mixed results in EoE, and the efficacy of mepo in an adult and adolescent population has yet to be fully examined…

BACKGROUND: Diet is known to alter the risk of depression. Increasing data also demonstrate a causal role of the gut microbiome in mental illness, via the gut-brain axis. However, it remains unclear how diet and the microbiome mechanistically influence depression risk in humans…

Introduction: Chronic abdominal pain is a common and severely debilitating symptom of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), that frequently occurs in patients in endoscopic remission…