Background: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often feel they have some form of dietary intolerance and frequently try exclusion diets. Tests attempting to predict food sensitivity in IBS ...

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 ...

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; ...

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of long-term budesonide therapy for the maintenance of clinical remission in patients with collagenous colitis. Design: Randomised, placebo-controlled ...

Objective Acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (NVUGIB) is managed by standard endoscopic combination therapy, but a few cases remain difficult and carry a high risk of persistent or ...

Objective MicroRNA (miR)-301a is known to be involved in the tumourigenesis and pathogenesis of several autoimmune diseases, but it remains unclear whether miR-301a is associated with the pathogenesis ...

1 Institute of Immunology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R.China 2 Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang ...

Objectives National guidelines for the management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) recommend that psychological therapies should be considered, but their relative efficacy is unknown, because there ...

2 Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, People's Republic of China 3 Tianjin Key Laboratory of Digestive Cancer, Tianjin, People's Republic of China Background Fructose has been ...

7 Department of Paediatrics, St George's Hospital, London, UK 8 Department of Gastroenterology, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK 9 Department Gastroenterology, University Hospital of North Tees, UK The ...

Background and aims: There is now good evidence from several sources that hypnotherapy can relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome in the short term. However, there is no long term data on ...

3 NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Midlands and North West Programme Hub, Rugby, UK 4 NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Southern Programme Hub, Guildford, UK 5 University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Correspondence to ...