Patients with CKD risk further renal injury without likely benefit.

Results from a prospective study involving more than 100000 participants.

NLR has a potential to help prioritise cases with confirmed appendicitis waiting for emergency appendectomy.

Results from a randomised controlled trial.

No association seen between pre-operative 25-OHD levels and survival.

Highlights include individualized initiation times and noninvasive options.

No association was observed in Crohn’s disease.

Meta-analysis of 14 studies.

Meta-analysis of 13 studies involving more than 80000 middle-aged individuals.

Lancet article says physicians should counsel patients carefully before offering cholecystectomy as a solution to symptomatic gallstone disease.

Risk is even higher with male sex, high BMI, hypertension, and kidney disease markers.

More relaxed outcome definitions found evidence of benefit in COMPASS, however.

Findings from a new survey for Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Meta-analysis of 14 observational studies.