Acute appendicitis for Christmas? The silver lining of reduced risk of ulcerative colitis

With Christmas fast approaching and new papers coming through all the time it’s time for another blog. For the last blog in 2022 I’m going to treat myself and discuss a paper on the incidence of ulcerative colitis following acute appendicitis and dive into some of the surrounding literature on appendicectomy and subsequent risk of […]

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Probiotics in preterm infants, ambulatory ASUC and coeliac disease in Sudanese children

In the 2nd blog of 2022, we take a look at a trio of recently published articles in BMJOG covering a wide range of luminal gastroenterology. In our first article we look at the evidence for modulation of the luminal microbiome of the preterm infant using single and multiple strains of probiotics. Secondly we discuss […]

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