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Today the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published updated guidelines for conducting economic evaluation and budget impact analysis in health technology assessments (HTAs). The guidelines are…
Introduction: Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease and is defined by transmural inflammation that can exist anywhere between from the mouth to anus. It is associated…
Introduction Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic inflammatory bowel conditions characterised by periods of relapsing and remitting disease and progressive bowel damage. The complexity of…
Diagnosing Diabetes The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and World Health Organization (WHO) have established clear diagnostic criteria for diabetes. A definitive diagnosis requires meeting one of these threshold…
It won’t be news to you that the disease that we used to refer to as NAFLD is now MASLD: the term Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease now…
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a progressive metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance, beta-cell dysfunction, and chronic hyperglycaemia with significant risk of renal and / or cardiovascular complications.…
Introduction: Obesity has historically been diagnosed using the Body Mass Index (BMI), a simplified tool for a complex disease that does not consider individual metabolic, cardiovascular, functional, or…
Liver disease is a major public health challenge. Anyone involved in acute medicine will fully appreciate the emerging epidemic of liver disease. In contrast to the progress made…
Chronic liver disease has steadily become one of the leading causes of death worldwide, resulting in an estimated 2 million deaths annually.1 Cirrhosis is the 10th leading cause…
Introduction: Oesophageal cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide.1 Two major pathological subtypes exist: oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma and oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Oesophageal adenocarcinoma is the…
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