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IBS

British

abbreviation

irritable bowel syndrome

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He also highlighted the need for future treatment guidelines to better address the long-term safety of medications frequently used for IBS.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

Despite the IBS that the famed sketch-comedy show allegedly gives its cast members, “SNL” has lifted the careers of comedians like Rudolph and Jones.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

She said after years of medical appointments and being told it was "just part of being a woman", "probably IBS" or repeatedly being prescribed birth control, she paid for a hysterectomy, retaining her ovaries.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

“Fecal microbial transplants” treat someone’s unhealthy gut with poop from someone else’s healthy gut, and proponents of FMT claim it can help treat everything from IBS to autism.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2024

Jumping around my room in an all-over IBS wiggly dance, feet kicking, he steps on markers.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

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