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An Interview with Victoria Thomas, Head of Public Involvement at NICE

The European Medical Journal caught up with Ms Victoria Thomas, who is Head of Public Involvement at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence..

How to Help Empower Cancer Patients

One of the themes that ran through the recent ‘War on Cancer’ event, organised by The Economist, conducted on 21st November, was problems in…

Keep Calm and Treat to Target in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Highlighting the importance of early diagnosis, assessing prognostic factors, and treating to target inflammatory bowel disease.

Outcome of Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy in Treatment-Naïve Versus Prior Treatment Failure Cases of Achalasia

Achalasia cardia is a neurodegenerative disease indicating the absence of normal peristalsis and relaxation of lower oesophageal sphincter

Editor’s Pick: Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Abdominal Tuberculosis

Abdominal tuberculosis and its protean manifestations still create a diagnostic challenge for clinicians and remain an important concern in the…

Nutritional Support in Gastroparesis: Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy with Jejunal Extension: The Ultimate Solution? A Retrospective Analysis

Gastroparesis is characterised by delayed gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical obstruction.

Extragastric Gastrointestinal Manifestations of Helicobacter Pylori: Friend or Foe?

Since it was first identified in 1982, Helicobacter pylori has continued to draw attention far beyond its role in peptic ulcer disease and is now…

Five-Year Italian Registry of Diverticulosis and Diverticular Disease (Remad): A Low Progression Rate of Disease During the First Year of Follow-Up

Traditionally, the lifetime risk of developing diverticulitis, the most common clinical complication in diverticular disease, is cited as 10–25%; this…

New Insights in Liver and Pancreatic Stellate Cells: The Roles of Toll-Like Receptor 5

Hepatic stellate cells are responsible for liver tissue’s ability to store vitamin A and 80% of whole-body retinol as cytosolic lipid droplets of…

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Pancreas Disease, Pancreatic Cancer, and Impact of Endoscopic Ultrasound Examination on Screening and Surveillance

Fat accumulation in the pancreas, defined as fatty pancreas, is usually an incidental finding during transabdominal ultrasound examination.