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Streptococcus anginosus induces gastric inflammation, atrophy, and tumorigenesis in mice, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have reported.

An alcohol preparedness index (API) can help assess the establishment and strength of alcohol-related public health policies across the globe, according to a study.

Not all plant-based diets are good for the body, and adherence to an unhealthful type may negatively affect gut microbiome diversity, composition, and metabolites, suggests a study.

Treatment with the Fc–FGF21 analogue efruxifermin is well tolerated and appears to further improve liver health in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) with fibrosis who are already on a GLP-1RA, according to a phase IIb trial.

The use of real-time, computer-aided detection of colonic neoplasia leads to modest increases in adenoma detection rate and adenomas detected per colonoscopy in average-detector community endoscopists, as shown in the results of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

People who follow a healthy eating pattern, such as the dietary approach to stop hypertension (DASH) or the healthful plant-based diet index (hPDI), have a lower risk of gastrointestinal cancers (GIC), suggests a study. These dietary patterns also appear to partly compensate for genetic predispositions to cancer.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) appear to have a moderately elevated risk of pancreatic cancer, according to a meta-analysis.