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Los Angeles 芒鈧�鈥� The new medication Amitiza (lubiprostone) is safe and effective as long-term therapy for chronic constipation in older patients, researchers reported here. Results were at least as good in seniors as in the more general populations studied earlier.

PHILADELPHIA, April 7 - New drug therapies are coming on the market to treat chronic constipation, but it is instructive to examine some of the older approaches and therapies to see what works and what doesn't.

PHILADELPHIA - Patients frequently complain of constipation to their physicians, but they and the doctors may be speaking at cross purposes. In a survey of patients and specialist and resident physicians, 50% of the time patient responses disagreed with physicians' answers about what is constipation.