THE GREAT CONTROVERSY: TRIALS INVOLVING IBS
Irritable bowel syndrome or IBS is a disorder characterized by chronic diarrhoea or constipation, or a mixture of the two. (Chronic in medical parlance means ‘long-term’.) In most patients, there is also abdominal pain.
A major trial of IBS patients was carried out at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, in Cambridge, by Dr John Hunter and Dr Virginia Alun-Jones. [...]