The recent commentary by Manning et al highlights difficulties comparing results of gastrointestinal microbiome cohort studies.1 They demonstrate how methodological heterogeneity can substantially ...

Background Current microbiome-based therapeutics face two prominent issues: the limited clinical efficacy of probiotics and the significant variability in the efficacy of microbiota transplantation ...

It is reported that up to 10–25% of all diagnoses of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) occur in those aged less than 18 years.1 The long-term impact of disease for those likely to live 70+ years with ...

A 36-year-old man presented with abdominal pain lasting 5 months and muco-bloody stools for 1 month. Subsequently, he progressed to incomplete intestinal obstruction (defaecation difficulty and ...

Van der Schee et al 1 recently reported favourable 3-year oncological outcomes following endoscopic intramuscular dissection (EID). Patients with suspected rectal deep submucosal invasive cT1N0 or ...

Correspondence to Dr Melina Arnold, Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, Lyon 69008, France; arnoldm{at}fellows.iarc.fr Objective The ...

Dr J Tibble, Department of Gastroenterology, King’s College School Medicine and Dentistry, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK. BACKGROUND The diagnosis of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ...

Correspondence to Professor Jianguo Chen, Department of Etiology, Qidong Liver Cancer Institute, Qidong People’s Hospital, Qidong 226200, China; chenjg{at}ntu.edu.cn and Professor Hong Tu, State Key ...

The commonly reported gastrointestinal side effects that occur with erythromycin are related to its prokinetic action on the gut, mediated, at least in part, by its motilin receptor stimulating ...

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Correspondence to: Dr K Dvorak Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, PO Box 245044, ...

Correspondence to Professor Herbert Tilg, Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria; ...

1 Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology, St Mark’s Hospital, London, UK 2 Departments of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Background: ...