Gastroenterology

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.

A microbiome-based classifier identified patients with newly diagnosed ulcerative colitis at risk of an aggressive disease course, achieving an AUC of 0.85 in distinguishing aggressive from indolent disease.

Red blood cell DNA profiling showed promise as a non-invasive approach to gastric cancer detection, achieving 82–89% sensitivity for Stage I disease across three multicentre validation cohorts.