Welcome

Welcome to the May edition of the NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases newsletter. This bulletin is produced monthly, and aims to update you on:

• Interesting items recently added to the collection
• The latest news items as highlighted by our Clinical Lead
• Upcoming events of interest
• What the project team are currently doing

NHS Evidence

The NHS Evidence website has now formally launched. You may have noticed some changes to our site, and other pages, already.

Provided by NICE, NHS Evidence is a new service which will develop, enhance and expand the services that were previously provided by the National Library for Health (NLH). The NLH and its specialist libraries became part of NHS Evidence on 1 April 2009. The NHS Evidence portal and search engine are now available at www.evidence.nhs.uk.

As part of ongoing developments, the specialist libraries have changed their names and are, as a group, now called specialist collections. This individual collection is now NHS Evidence – gastroenterology and liver diseases, and you will continue to be able to access all the content and features. The existing URL for the collection will remain for now, but is likely to change later in the year as the specialist collections become fully integrated with the NHS Evidence portal.

Further information on NHS Evidence can be found here.

Revisions to topic tree

We have made some revisions to our topic tree (the list of subjects that appears in the left-hand column of the website). Many new subtopics have been enabled. Most importantly, the information on therapeutic nutrition has been put in its own section. As a main section of the site, this now has an accompanying RSS feed. (A full list of our RSS feeds can be found here.)

Recent additions

Here are some of the recent additions to the website:

• NICE: Diarrhoea and vomiting in children - diarrhoea and vomiting caused by gastroenteritis: diagnosis, assessment and management in children younger than 5 years
• NICE: Ex-vivo hepatic resection and reimplantation for liver cancer
• Cochrane: Antiamoebic drugs for treating amoebic colitis
• Cochrane: Haloperidol for the treatment of nausea and vomiting in palliative care patients
• Cochrane: Immunoglobulins for preventing hepatitis A
• Cochrane: Interventions for growth failure in childhood Crohn's disease
• Cochrane: Liver resection versus other treatments for neuroendocrine tumours in patients with resectable liver metastases
• Cochrane: Low pressure versus standard pressure pneumoperitoneum in laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Cochrane: Nutritional support for critically ill children
• Cochrane: Polymer-based oral rehydration solution for treating acute watery diarrhoea
• Cochrane: Red cell transfusion for the management of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage
• Cochrane: Second-line chemotherapy in advanced and metastatic CRC
• Cochrane: Surgery versus radical endotherapies for early cancer and high grade dysplasia in Barrett's oesophagus
• Cochrane: Thalidomide and thalidomide analogues for induction of remission in Crohn's disease
• Cochrane: Thalidomide and thalidomide analogues for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease
• AACE/TOS/ASMBS: Medical guidelines for clinical practice for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic and non-surgical support of the bariatric surgery patient

A full list of additions to the site in April can be found here.

Latest news

Dr Martyn Caplin, Clinical Lead for the GLDSL, has highlighted some of the most interesting recent journal articles, and other news of note:

• Methodology and indications of H2-breath testing in gastrointestinal diseases: the Rome Consensus Conference
• Systematic review: the global incidence and prevalence of peptic ulcer disease
• Adjuvant imatinib mesylate after resection of localised, primary gastrointestinal stromal tumour: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
• Cetuximab and Chemotherapy as Initial Treatment for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Events in April

The GLDSL maintains a calendar of upcoming events in gastroenterology and hepatology across the country and beyond. The following is the list for the next two months::

• 2-8 May: ASCRS Annual Scientific Meeting 2009
• 6-9 May: ECO 2009
• 13-15 May: Colorectal Surgery at Karolinska Institutet 2009
• 13-15 May: ASGBI 2009
• 19 May: World Hepatitis Day
• 22-25 May: Abruzzo Symposia 2009: Pancreatic diseases: from molecules to patients
• 30 May-3 Jun: Digestive Disease Week 2009
• 30-31 May: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Pancreas Club
• 3-6 June: ESPGHAN 42nd Annual Meeting
• 4-5 June: Skin Care and Consideration for patients with GI disorders
• 8-11 June: ACPGBI Annual Conference 2009
• 8-9 June: Mucosal Immunology and Intestinal Microflora Symposium 2009
• 9-10 June : ACA Conference & Exhibition 2009
• 11 June: Neonatal Surgical Study Day: Managing the Neonate with Short Bowel
• 14-17 June: Practical Nutrition Support Course
• 15-16 June: 3rd Hands-on BSPGHAN Paediatric Consultant Update - Ileo-colonscopy Course
• 18-20 June: 8th Congress of the European Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
• 18-21 June: 2009 ASNEMGE/EAGE Postgraduate Training Course: 6th Summer School of Gastroenterology
• 18 June: BAPEN Medical Summer Meeting: Nutrition and Renal Disease
• 20 June: Haemochromatosis Society AGM 2009
• 22-24 June: Gastroenterology and Endotherapy: 27th European Workshop
• 22-23 June: NNNG Annual Conference 2009
• 22 June: Advances in laparoscopic surgery
• 24-27 June: 11th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer
• 24-26 June: Obesity and its Management
• 25-26 June: Complications in GI-Endoscopy
• 27 June-2 July: Paediatric Nutrition: An Evidence-Based Approach

Contact Us

Please contact us if you have any suggestions or comments about the specialist collection.

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Matthew Hall

Information Specialist
NHS Evidence - gastroenterology and liver diseases
Medical Library,
Royal Free Hospital,
Rowland Hill Street,
Hampstead,
London, NW3 2PF

Royal Free Ext: 34996
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7433 8570
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