A new research study presented at the Digestive Disease Week meeting in San Diego found that a medicine called AT-1001 may protect celiac disease patients from exposure to gluten by preventing gluten from crossing the intestinal mucosa. In a second study at the meeting, researchers concluded that the current criteria for diagnosing celiac is too stringent, resulting in many patients going undiagnosed and untreated.

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