Objectives GI endoscopy units represent the third largest producers of medical waste. We aimed to determine endoscopic instrument composition and life cycle assessment (LCA) and to assess a ...

Background—Medium chain C8–C10 triglycerides (MCTs) improve fat absorption in short bowel patients. Effects on overall energy absorption remain unknown. Aims—To determine whether MCTs and medium chain ...

Correspondence to Professor Jingmei Jiang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, ...

Introduction Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is a rare disorder characterised by upper GI bleeding, chronic iron-deficiency anaemia and endoscopic findings of columns of red tortuous vessels ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is notoriously aggressive and hard to treat. The tumour microenvironment (TME) in PDA is highly dynamic and has been found to promote tumour progression, ...

Engineering Research Center of Applied Technology of Pharmacogenomics (Ministry of Education), Hunan Key Laboratory of Pharmacomicrobiomics, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Xiangya Hospital, ...

Correspondence to Dr Jun Yu, Institute of Digestive Disease and The Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong; junyu{at}cuhk.edu.hk The gut ...

Introduction Persistent physical symptoms (PPS) are estimated to cost 10% of total NHS expenditure for the working age population in England. When surveyed, only 11% of clinicians locally felt those ...

Correspondence to Dr Massimiliano di Pietro, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, P.O. Box 197, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK; md460{at}mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk The most recent ...

Introduction Due to pandemic restrictions we established a new early diagnosis service for patients with reflux symptoms and those on our existing Barrett’s surveillance programme using Cytosponge as ...

Introduction Oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) is an intrinsic tumour suppressor mechanism, but its impact on tumorigenesis is largely dependent on the nature of SASP, senescence-associated secretory ...

Introduction Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust Endoscopy Pre-Assessment is a high volume service currently pre-assesing 900 patients per month. A large waiting list for procedures bulit up as a ...