‘ Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver’ (American philosopher William James [1842—1910]) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently the most frequent global liver disease.1 ...

Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic severely disrupted healthcare services. In March 2020, the government announced the ‘Everyone In’ initiative to support everyone rough sleeping or in accommodation ...

These guidelines have developed as a joint project between the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, the British Society of Gastroenterology, and the British ...

### 1.1 PURPOSE OF GUIDELINES These guidelines were compiled by a multidisciplinary group at the request of the chairman of the British Society of Gastroenterology's Clinical Services Committee. The ...

Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is a major cause of morbidity and burden of disease worldwide. It can generally be diagnosed by blood testing and remedied by iron replacement therapy (IRT) using the ...

Transcription factors of the family p53 have emerged as an important set of tumour suppressors, able to regulate various cell functions like cell cycle arrest, differentiation, DNA repair, apoptosis ...

Introduction and purpose of guidelines. During recent years there have been many changes in the management of patients with acute pancreatitis. These have included the general availability of computed ...

Objective The benefit of continuing 5-aminosalicylate (5-ASA) in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) who initiate anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha (anti-TNF) biologics is unknown. We aimed to ...

Objective To highlight the contribution of the gut microbiota to the modulation of host metabolism by dietary inulin-type fructans (ITF prebiotics) in obese women. Methods A double blind, placebo ...

Background Chronic inflammation and elevated reactive oxygen species are key contributors to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ...

A high adenoma detection rate (ADR) is vital for effective colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, but evidence suggests limited additional benefit beyond a certain threshold. In a pooled analysis of five ...

In patients with small intestinal Crohn’s disease (CD), there is a need for a simple, non-invasive test to reduce dependence on invasive procedures (eg, enteroscopy) and costly imaging (eg, MRI or CT ...