The fourth session of the patient symposium was led by Dr R Howard from Birmingham, a clinical psychologist - and also mother to a coeliac teenager. It's always nice to hear from people who understand the gluten free lifestyle at first hand! She discussed the psycho-social issues around being diagnosed with a long-term condition, managing the … [Read more...]

Would you accept a weekly injection if it meant you could eat a 'normal' diet? The third session at the British Society of Gastroenterology Patient Symposium was the one that I found most interesting. Professor Anderson is working on a treatment programme for coeliac disease. How would it work? His vision is of a desensitisation … [Read more...]

From my notes taken at the recent gastroenterology conference… Quotes from Proust, Nigel Slater and Laura Esquivel were not at all what I was expecting from a gastroenterology conference. They were part of an interesting session on Food and Mood by Professor Nick Read, who talked about how food affects us all. Obviously food can affect … [Read more...]