This would be great, if it works out. It will test for other autoimmune diseases too!
http://www.celiac.com/articles/22972/1/ ... Page1.html
Quick and easy celiac testing on the horizon?
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Maybe I'm looking at this with a jaundiced eye, but it's still a blood test, testing for the same antibodies (and the same genes) as the old tests, but using the same basic technology in a shiny new package. It will be faster and much easier for everyone concerned, so maybe more doctors will use it (and that might help), but in general, I see no evidence to convince me that it will be any more sensitive, or any more likely to diagnose the cases that previously showed negative test results (which were the overwhelming majority of tests). Basically it just appears to simplify the testing process, without introducing any new tests. 
I hope it works better than the information in the article suggests, because that article doesn't excite me about the prospects.
Tex
I hope it works better than the information in the article suggests, because that article doesn't excite me about the prospects.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.