To study the effects of stressful stimulus (cold pain) upon postprandial gastric, duodenal, and pancreatic function, nine healthy adult volunteers were intubated and then given two identical liquid ...

Background The recently developed technique for peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been shown to be effective in several short-term studies. Longer term outcome data are largely non-existent.

We have read with interest the recent papers of Kennedy et al 1 2 regarding the attenuated anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody response in patients with IBD and the crucial role of the COVID-19 vaccine in this ...

Introduction Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the gastro- intestinal tract. The natural history of CD is difficult to predict. In some patients, ...

BACKGROUND Use of the conventional Western and Japanese classification systems of gastrointestinal epithelial neoplasia results in large differences among pathologists in the diagnosis of oesophageal, ...

Introduction Gastro-oesophageal reflux occurs twice as much during transient lower oesophageal sphincter relaxations (TLOSRs) in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) compared to ...

‘ 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 ...

It is increasingly evident that human diseases are most often related to lifestyle, and should in theory be preventable. The stress of modern life, our reduced physical activity, and our consumption ...

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that computer-aided detection (CADe) can significantly improve adenoma detection rates (ADRs). In contrast, implementation studies did not show ADR ...

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 ...