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A procalcitonin-guided algorithm could reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics in patients with acute pancreatitis, according to results of the PROCAP trial.

In patients with intermediate or advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), combining transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with apatinib led to improvement in progression-free survival (PFS), according to a recent study from China.

Young patients with coeliac disease (CD) tend to develop juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) three times more often than does the general population, while adult CD patients appear to have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) nearly twice as often, reveals a study.

For individuals with obesity who are scheduled to undergo bariatric surgery, faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from a lean donor does not appear to help reduce weight before or after the procedure, according to a study.

Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) are recruiting pregnant women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), their newborns and spouse for a study to investigate how early-life exposure influences gut microbiota and IBD risk in the offspring, and to develop novel treatments for the increasingly prevalent condition.

Weekly bepirovirsen treatment may help reduce HBsAg* and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA levels in patients with chronic HBV infection, the phase IIb B-Clear study showed.

A noninvasive diagnostic approach that combines bowel ultrasound and faecal calprotectin test appears to be reliable for detecting disease recurrence in Crohn’s disease (CD) patients who have undergone ileo-cecal resection, according to a study.

Adherence to an overall healthy lifestyle appears to prevent a substantial proportion of inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, as reported in a study.