Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has rapidly become the most common chronic liver disease globally and is currently estimated to affect up to 38% of the global adult population. NAFLD is a ...

Correspondence to: MrC D Johnson University Surgical Unit, Mail Point 816, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton BH24 4EW, UK; c.d.johnsonsoton.ac.uk If you wish ...

A simple technique for measuring gastrointestinal transit times using radioopaque pellets of barium-impregnated polythene has been developed and validated. A normal range has been established by ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, School of Public Health & School of Life Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China 2 National Institute of Diagnostics and ...

Correspondence to Professor Alfred Sze-Lok Cheng, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; alfredcheng{at}cuhk.edu.hk; Professor Joseph Jao-Yiu Sung, Lee ...

Background The risk of developing advanced neoplasia (AN; colorectal cancer and/or high-grade dysplasia) in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients with a low-grade dysplasia (LGD) lesion is variable and ...

6 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 7 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ...

Objective The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a mouse population model with diverse and reproducible genetic backgrounds used to identify novel disease models and genes that contribute to human disease.

Background Recent meta-analyses suggested diclofenac may be superior to indomethacin in preventing post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis (PEP). The aim of our study ...

These guidelines aim to help clinicians manage patients who have had an intestinal resection that leaves a short length (about 2 m or less) of small bowel remaining. The preliminary guidelines were ...

We reviewed the recent cohort study by Raju et al1 on ultra-short coeliac disease (USCD), the first multicentre international study assessing the characteristics of this new entity and comparing them ...