Gastroenterology News

• Anaemia in Children With IBD: A Persistent Challenge A significant proportion of children newly diagnosed with IBD present with anaemia, and many of them remain anaemic even after a year, warranting adequate attention to the issue.
  Medscape News UK, April 11, 2025
• Weight-Loss Surgery Instead of GLP-1s? In the long term, bariatric surgery is more cost-effective than new anti-obesity medications, research finds, triggering a call to suggest patients consider surgery — or both.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Sucralose Affects Brain Mechanisms That Regulate Appetite The noncaloric sweetener sucralose appears to influence how the hypothalamus interprets sweet taste and metabolic signals, potentially influencing appetite regulation over time.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Inflammatory Marker Predicts Liver Cancer Risk in T2D An inflammatory biomarker, YKL-40, serves as a reliable prognostic marker for liver and bladder cancers in patients with newly diagnosed T2D, outperforming CRP for these cancers.
  Medscape News UK, April 10, 2025
• Tumor Bacteria Tied to Metachronous CRC in Lynch Syndrome The genotoxic gut bacterium pks+ E coli is enriched in CRCs in people with Lynch syndrome, and its presence within the initial primary tumor is tied to an increased risk for metachronous CRC.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• WCM-EADO 2025 Harnessing the Microbiome to Treat Melanoma: Can It Work? Researchers are exploring strategies to alter the gut microbiome to improve patients’ responses to immunotherapy. New research provide encouraging, but very early, data.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• AAN 2025 AI-Powered Wearable Calms Essential Tremor The Felix NeuroAI wristband delivers tailored and dynamic electrical stimulation to the ulnar, median, and radial nerves throughout the day to relieve essential tremor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Lung Cancer Screening Lower Than Others A study aims to explore whether individuals eligible for lung cancer screening also access other preventive services.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Cancer Deaths Fall in Europe, but Not Across All Types A new study has revealed significant reductions in cancer deaths across Europe, yet critical challenges persist for specific tumour types.
  Medscape News UK, April 10, 2025
• Canadian Medical Groups Urge Participation in April Election Medical groups are pressing their members to keep healthcare a priority for federal officials in an election campaign dominated by concerns about a trade war with the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• New Scoring System May Streamline Food Allergy Diagnosis The NAPFA score may predict which children have a food allergy, even without allergy test results.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• US Measles Battle Hindered by Confusion Over Health Secretary Response U.S. pediatricians and infectious disease experts say the fight against rising measles cases nationwide is being hampered by a lack of forceful advocacy for vaccination from...
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2025
• Alert FDA Approves Nivolumab + Ipilimumab for Certain CRC Patients The CRC indication is the latest approval for the combination therapy, which demonstrated improved PFS vs chemotherapy and nivolumab monotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Surgery Tops Lifestyle Changes in Patients With Cirrhosis The cost-effectiveness of the surgery, particularly for those with cirrhosis, is significant compared with those only receiving a lifestyle modification program.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Switching to Budesonide Tablet Shows Promise in EoE Budesonide orodispersible tablets show effectiveness in treating patients with eosinophilic oesophagitis after switching from off-label swallowed topical corticosteroids, a study shows.
  Medscape News UK, April 09, 2025
• US Aid Cuts: S Sudan Cholera Patients Die Walking to Clinic Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to...
  Reuters Health Information, April 08, 2025
• Patient Navigation Boosts Follow-Up Colonoscopy Completion Patient navigation is more effective than usual care for increasing follow-up colonoscopy after an abnormal stool test result.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Early-Onset CRC Rises Despite Stable Overall Incidence in UK The overall incidence of colorectal cancer plateaued but the incidence of early-onset CRC increased annually in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2021, a population-based cohort study finds.
  Medscape News UK, April 07, 2025
• Statin-Antibiotic Combo Fails in Decompensated Cirrhosis Add-on treatment may, however, benefit patients with less advanced liver disease.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2025