Gut Podcast

Mairi McLean (Gut’s education editor) discusses August’s editor’s choice paper, on NKT-associated hedgehog and osteopontin and their role in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, with authors Anna Mae Diehl (chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University), Wing-Kin Syn (head of Regeneration and Repair, Institute of Hepatology, London) and Steve Choi (assistant professor, Division of Gastroenter...

The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme has now been operating in England for six years, so how effective has it been in terms of take-up and detection? A paper in Gut examines the outcomes, and education editor Mairi McLean talks to some of the authors to hear what they found. See also: Outcomes of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) in England after the first 1 million tests (http://tinyurl...

Recent studies have identified mucosal healing as a key prognostic parameter in the management of inflammatory bowel diseases. In this podcast Mairi McLean, education editor for Gut, talks to Marcus Neurath from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Simon Travis from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, about their systematic review of the clinical studies on mucosal healing. They discuss the ef...

Gut’s education editor Mairi McLean talks to Peter Mannon, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Walter Reinisch, Department of Medicine IV, Division Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, about their research looking at interluekin 13 and its role in gut defence and inflammation. See also: Interleukin 13 and its role in gut d...

Mairi McLean, Gut’s education editor, talks to Peter Banks, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Harvard Medical School, and Michael Sarr, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, about their revision of the Atlanta classification of acute pancreatitis. See also: Classification of acute pancreatitis—2012: revision of the Atlanta classification and definitions by internati...