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Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a chronic condition of unknown aetiology. Symptoms can vary but there is typically pelvic pain or discomfort perceived to be related to the urinary bladder, usually accompanied by other urinary symptoms such as the persistent urge to void or frequency.

Prasanna Sooriakumaran | Lead for Urology and Consultant Urological Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic London, UK; Consultant Urological and Robotic Surgeon, University College London Hospitals; Honorary Senior Clinical Researcher, University of Oxford, UK.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the third most common type of cancer in women. Patients aged 50 years and above constitute the highest percentage of patients diagnosed with the disease.

Our latest EMJ Allergy & Immunology infographic depicts the real world effectiveness of Sublingual Allergen Immunotherapy on the onset and…

Pavel Tolar spoke with EMJ about his path to immunology, role in education, and fantastic achievements in his career.

JAK inhibitors (JAKi) are targeted, small-molecule, disease-modifying therapies that are the newest class of treatments to emerge for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the first oral disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARD) to demonstrate comparable clinical efficacy to biological DMARDs (bDMARD).

Mast cells are the central cells in the pathogenesis of many conditions that are associated with mediator release. New information is emerging about the role of mast cells in a number of conditions. This review summarises current knowledge on the topic.

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare but debilitating and potentially fatal disease that presents in various forms, and can be difficult to manage. Its underlying cause is mutations in a gene that, through its protein product, controls production of the tissue enzyme kallikrein and a peptide mediator, bradykinin. The resulting overproduction of bradykinin leads to increased vascular permeability and oedema.