I’m here in sunny Amsterdam on behalf of @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social for another stacked #EASLCongress 👋 Email or DM or just say hi to chat about submissions 🙌

From H pylori prevalence to diet and #IBS, via #HCC screening and viral #hepatitis, this is LancetGastro2024, as visualised by @mempathie.bsky.social Thank you authors, reviewers, advisory board members, and all at @thelancet.bsky.social involved in getting an issue published each month!

The Adam Curtis doco you really didn't know you needed

Good article in Nature on the INSPECT-SR project I had the pleasure of contributing to (preprint now at doi.org/10.1101/2024...) Most problematic trials probably have little clinical impact on their own. But sys-revs that inadvertently include them risk 'laundering' their findings to wide audience!

Ouch. Only 16 MDPI and 22 Frontiers journals to remain at level 1 (includes Frontiers in Gastro)

A well balanced editorial from the team at the Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology this month on the contentious topic of UPFs. 💯 in agreement: "Pleas to overhaul the food system to mitigate the specific harms of UPFs are well meaning but overly reliant on limited data...

Amazing to watch commentators and outlets attribute these findings to UPFs and seed oils when the study doesn't even look at this. The assumption that eating more linoleic acid -> higher tissue arachidonic acid enrichment has fueled so many handwavey hypotheses despite metabolic regulation

Think this article yields too many qs about underlying observational work to be v useful Eg, is this an attempt to isolate specific UPF effects (if so, do they relate to all UPF products)? Or do effects reflect overall nutritional content of diets (if so, invocation of UPF nomenclature misleading)?

As if it needed illustrating that Bluesky is the new domain for sharing and discussing scientific content ⬇

The original article will live long in the memory, featuring earnest claims of brain-resident chloroplasts

Now on Bluesky 👇

For those of you who keep asking; No we don't capture attention from clinical guidelines by "walking around hospitals listening for DOIs and writing them all down."

Interim data (n=18/36) from new @kevinh-phd.bsky.social crossover trial clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT052... ⬆ 1-week energy consumption w/ #UPF diets high in energy density/palatability (UPF hh) & high energy dense/low palatability (UPF hl) vs MPF & UPF diet low in energy density/palatability

Tuning into #IBResearch #UltraProcessedFood conference today. The day kicks off with the same tired COI attacks. Deeply dispiriting.

Anyone who has followed this story won't be surprised to hear that simufilam missed both phase 3 co-primary endpoints. A bleak tale of fraud and threats finally brought to a close, years too late. www.cassavasciences.com/news-release... www.science.org/content/arti...

New at The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health — Paediatric acute liver failure: a multidisciplinary perspective on when a critically ill child is unsuitable for liver transplantation www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #LiverSky

@altmetric.com have rolled out data for article citations in clinical guidelines, giving new insight into clinical impact for publications, and I couldn't resist having a dig into it for #LancetGastroHep

We are on our second starter pack for GI / Hepatology Part 1: go.bsky.app/8Pho2tp Part 2: go.bsky.app/VGyLKjR #medsky #GIsky #LiverSky

@altmetric.com have been doing some killer updates recently, and more to come 👀

Won’t take long!

#TLM24 late-breakers out now, feat ESSENCE phase 3 of #semaglutide in #MASH www.aasld.org/sites/defaul...

New starter pack! First attempt at curating a community of amazing #womeninmedicine Who else should I add? #MedSky

Refreshing here, isn’t it? In related news, happy to share a new (free) Comment capturing some thoughts from our internal work on misinformation. Health is a unifying force, and we cannot allow misinformation and disinformation - from any source - to distort that. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...