This resource outlines the key characteristics of Microscopic Colitis (MC) which is an inflammatory Bowel Disease that affects the large bowel (colon and rectum). The symptoms of Microscopic Colitis have some overlap with diarrhoea prominent Irritable Bowel Syndrome...
COVID-19 rapid guideline: gastrointestinal and liver conditions treated with drugs affecting the immune response The guideline on gastrointestinal and liver conditions provides clinicians with advice on how to adjust care to reduce patients’ exposure to COVID-19 and...
New research has identified the cause of IBS pain as ‘gut itch’. 11 percent of the world’s population experience Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), but the fight against chronic pain has taken a step forward with scientists identifying receptors in the...
Date recorded: 7-7:30pm, Tuesday 24 September 2019 WATCH NOW Speaker: Chair: Dr Alexandra Kent, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Kings College Hospital NHS Trust Speaker: Dr Joel Mawdsley, Consultant Gastroenterologist with special interest in IBD. Guys and St Thomas’...
Research in Nottingham has indicated that serotonin plays an important role in controlling bowel function. Professor Robin Spiller and the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Biomedical Research Unit are currently doing a large multicentre trial (TRITON) looking at whether...
