Gastroenterology

A UK study found that faecal calprotectin testing increased in primary care between 2015 and 2023, highlighting its role in IBD triage and differences in patient testing and referral pathways.

Watch-and-wait management for patients with Stage II–III rectal cancer increased substantially between 2006 and 2023, with adoption accelerating after 2019 across all age groups.

CLARITY-Gastric 01 found an overall survival benefit with sonesitatug vedotin with a 53% reduction in the risk of death during follow-up.

A hybrid deep learning framework combining ResNet50, VGG16, Coordinate Attention, and focal loss improved gastrointestinal endoscopic image classification across 22 classes, addressing visual similarity and class imbalance.

Gut microbiome signatures predicted adverse and reverse cardiac remodelling in preclinical heart failure, with machine learning models demonstrating promising accuracy and consistent performance in an independent cohort.

A retrospective study found higher rates of gastrointestinal lesions and malignancy in patients with iron deficiency anaemia but confirmed that the absence of anaemia did not exclude serious gastrointestinal disease.

Around 700 people received free liver health checks during UEG Week 2026 in Barcelona through the Love Your Liver initiative, highlighting the role of accessible screening, early detection and public health awareness in tackling liver disease.

A large citizen science study evaluated the Blue Muffin test as a potential gut transit time biomarker, identifying associations with bowel habits, age, sex, and body mass index.