Yusuke Shimakawa (Institut Pasteur) discusses the development and evaluation of a simple score for hepatitis B treatment eligibility in Africa. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00449-1?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Mads Israelsen (Odense University Hospital) discusses a study to validate the new nomenclature of steatotic liver disease in patients with a history of excessive alcohol intake. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00443-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Louise Dye (University of Leeds) discusses a trial exploring the role of expectancy and gluten ingestion on symptoms in people with non-coeliac gluten sensitivity. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00317-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Tzu-Chan Hong (National Taiwan University Cancer Centre) discusses a systematic review and meta-analysis on primary antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori between 1990 and 2022 in the Asia-Pacific region. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00281-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Sarah Moen (Erasmus University Medical Center) discusses a retrospective cohort study examining the risk of metachronous colorectal cancer after partial or extensive colectomy in carriers of different pathogenic Lynch syndrome variants. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00228-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Anna Kann (Zealand University Hospital, Denmark) discusses a population-based study done in Denmark exploring the causes of mortality in patients with alcohol-related liver disease. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00192-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Robert Krouse (University of Pennsylvania) discusses the pragmatic S1316 trial of surgical versus non-surgical management for patients with malignant small bowel obstruction. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00191-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Marc Rothenberg (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine) discusses a new trial assessing the efficacy and safety of benralizumab in patients with eosinophilic gastritis, and how the surprising findings might change our understanding of eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00145-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Michael Pavlides (University of Oxford) discusses work by the LITMUS Consortium on the prognostic performance of non-invasive tests in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00017-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today...

Jasmohan Bajaj (Virginia Commonwealth University and Central Virginia Veterans Healthcare System, Richmond, VA, USA), on behalf of the CLEARED Consortium, discusses a prospective observational cohort study examining global disparities in mortality and liver transplantation in hospitalised patients with cirrhosis. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00098-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_langas

Adelina Artenie (University of Bristol, UK) discusses a systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the incidence of HIV and HCV among people who inject drugs, and associations with age and sex or gender. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(23)00018-3/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_langas_lancet

Johan Burisch (Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark) discusses the findings and recommendations of The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission on the cost of inflammatory bowel disease in high-income settings. Read the Commission here: The cost of inflammatory bowel disease in high-income settings

Edouard Louis (University Hospital CHU of Liège) discusses the SPARE randomised controlled trial of infliximab or concomitant immunosuppressant withdrawal in patients with Crohn’s disease. Read the full article: Withdrawal of infliximab or concomitant immunosuppressant therapy in patients with Crohn's disease on combination therapy (SPARE)

Paula Ghaneh (University of Liverpool) discusses the ESPAC5 randomised controlled trial of short-course neoadjuvant therapy compared with immediate surgery for patients with borderline resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Read the full article: Immediate surgery compared with short-course neoadjuvant gemcitabine plus capecitabine, FOLFIRINOX, or chemoradiotherapy in patients with borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (ESPAC5)

Dan Turner (Shaare Zedek Medical Center) discusses the VEDOKIDS study on the safety, effectiveness, and dosing of vedolizumab in children with IBD. Read the full article: Outcomes, dosing, and predictors of vedolizumab treatment in children with inflammatory bowel disease (VEDOKIDS)

Simon Baunwall (Aarhus University Hospital) discusses the EarlyFMT trial, a randomized placebo-controlled trial of faecal microbiota transplantation for first or second Clostridioides difficile infection. Read the full article: Faecal microbiota transplantation for first or second Clostridioides difficile infection (EarlyFMT)

James Alexander (Imperial College London) discusses the latest findings from the VIP case-control study, which is investigating COVID-19 vaccine immune responses in immunosuppressed patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Read the full article: COVID-19 vaccine-induced antibody and T-cell responses in immunosuppressed patients with inflammatory bowel disease after the third vaccine dose (VIP)

Filip Knop (University of Copenhagen) discusses a trial of liraglutide versus colesevelam for the treatment of bile acid diarrhoea. Read the full article: Safety and efficacy of liraglutide versus colesevelam for the treatment of bile acid diarrhoea: a randomised, double-blind, active-comparator, non-inferiority clinical trial

Edward Kim (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) discusses the single-arm RASER study of radiation segmentectomy for patients with unresectable very early to early stage hepatocellular carcinoma. Read the full article: Radiation segmentectomy for curative intent of unresectable very early to early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (RASER): a single-centre, single-arm study

Joep Ijspeert (Amsterdam University Medical Center) discusses a population-based study exploring the detection of proximal serrated polyps and interval post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer risk. Read the full article: Serrated polyp detection and risk of interval post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer: a population-based study

Elise Meima-van Praag (Amsterdam University Medical Centre) discusses the PISA-II trial, investigating short-term anti-TNF therapy with surgical closure versus anti-TNF therapy for perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease. Read the full article: Short-term anti-TNF therapy with surgical closure versus anti-TNF therapy in the treatment of perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease (PISA-II)

Juan Pablo Arab (Catholic University of Chile) discusses the current burden of NAFLD and the landscape of public health policies related to the disease in the Americas. Read the full article: The establishment of public health policies and the burden of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the Americas

Sarah Blach (CDA Foundation) summarises the latest analysis of global hepatitis C virus epidemiology and cascade of care by the Polaris Observatory HCV Collaborators. Read the full article: Global change in hepatitis C virus prevalence and cascade of care between 2015 and 2020: a modelling study

Sunil Solomon (Johns Hopkins University) discusses a study of a minimal monitoring approach for treating patients with hepatitis C virus infection. Read the full article: A minimal monitoring approach for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection (ACTG A5360 [MINMON]): a phase 4, open-label, single-arm trial