Correspondence to Dr Richard C Pollok, Gastroenterology, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London SW17 0QT, UK; richard.pollok{at}nhs.net Objective Depression is a potential risk ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), encompassing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, has multifactorial aetiology with complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Over 150 ...

Correspondence to Ass-Prof Dr Andreas Janecke, Department of Pedatrics I, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; andreas.janecke{at}i-med.ac.at Prof Sandhya S Visweswariah, ...

Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, Australia Dr N J Talley, Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital, Clinical Sciences Building, PO Box 63, ...

Chronic hepatitis D (CHD) is the most severe form of viral hepatitis, carrying a greater risk of developing cirrhosis and its complications. For decades, pegylated interferon alpha (PegIFN-α) has ...

a Division of Gastroenterology and Intensive Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, b Department of ...

Correspondence to Professor Jin-Woo Bae, Department of Life and Nanopharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea; baejw{at}khu.ac.kr; ...

1 Yulin Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Yulin, China 2 Department of Dermatology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China 3 Department ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have led to breakthrough improvements in the management of malignancy including hepatocellular (HCC) and biliary tract cancer, improving decades-old standards of ...

Introduction Newham University Hospital, Bart’s NHS Trust, serves the London Borough of Newham which had the highest incidence of tuberculosis in the UK at 78.0 per 100,000 in 2014. Newham also has ...

Background and aims Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) plays an important role in cancer invasion, but the relevant mechanism is not well known. This study aims to investigate the role and ...

Background—Gut translocation of bacteria has been shown in both animal and human studies. Evidence from animal studies that links bacterial translocation to the development of postoperative sepsis and ...