Background Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC), a rare and fatal liver cancer lacking effective drug therapy, is driven by the DNAJ ...

Background—Black tea is known to be a potent inhibitor of intestinal absorption of non-haem iron at least in healthy subjects. Aims—To investigate this effect in patients with genetic haemochromatosis ...

Objective Symptoms in gastroparesis (Gp) and functional dyspepsia (FD) overlap; using egg protein substitute to measure gastric emptying of solids (GES), ~40% of patients are reclassified from Gp to ...

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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 ...

Background Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies ...

Introduction Patients with chronic liver disease have increased risk of bone disease (BD) with reported prevalence of osteoporosis (OP) between 12%–55% and a high prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency.

Introduction Delivering better outcomes for cancer is a major part of the Long Term Plan for the NHS. For colo-rectal cancer (CRC) better outcomes will mainly come from earlier diagnosis of CRC and ...

Introduction Maintenance of enteral nutrition is considered to be beneficial for patients in whom the oral access has been lost. For long term tube feeding, PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) ...

Correspondence to Professor Francis K L Chan, Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; fklchan{at}cuhk.edu.hk Objective Patients with a history of Helicobacter ...

Background: Mouse models of colitis and cancer are indispensable for our understanding of the pathogenesis of these diseases. In the past, mice had to be sacrificed in order to analyse colitis ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy and European Laboratory of Food Induced Disease (ELFID), Naples, Italy Background and aims: The genetic load in coeliac ...