Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common and preventable disease for which screening rates by colonoscopy remain unacceptably low. Our primary objective was to develop and validate a clinical ...
In an attempt to study the relative toxicity of anthraquinonic laxatives on intestinal mucosa, we compared in mice the effects of fruit pulp containing sennosides A and B with those of a free ...
We would like to offer some critical observations regarding the recent article published on the environmental impact of single-use (SU) versus reusable (RU) gastroscopes.1 The study provides essential ...
Correspondence to Professor Colin J Rees, Gastroenterology, Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Colin.Rees{at}newcastle.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of ...
Correspondence to Dr Citadel J Cabasag, Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; cabasagc{at}fellows.iarc.fr We read with interest the commentary by ...
Background Mounting epidemiological evidence supports a role for phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN)-T cell leukaemia 1 (Tcl1) signalling deregulation in hepatocarcinogenesis. Objective To ...
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 ...
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Internal Medicine, GI Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 ...
The Lyon Consensus provides conclusive criteria for and against the diagnosis of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and adjunctive metrics that consolidate or refute GERD diagnosis when primary ...
2 Center for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 3 Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal ...
Objective Over half of patients with IBS have either diarrhoea (IBS-D) or a mixed stool pattern (IBS-M). The relative efficacy of licenced pharmacological therapies is unclear in the absence of ...
Correspondence to Dr Feng Sun, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China; sunfeng{at}bjmu.edu.cn SS and QY contributed equally.