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Ian Forgacs, Associate Editor

Oats-loving patients with coeliac disease will feel cheered by a follow up report from Finland. Five years after a clinical trial of a gluten free, oats containing diet, participants were fully re-evaluated. Two thirds of the coeliac patients randomised to the oats containing diet continued to do so after the study. There were no histological or immunological differences between those consuming oats and those on a conventional (oats free) gluten free diet. If you have coeliac disease, eating oats seems both safe and enjoyable. See 332

The group from Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong has published a series of excellent single centre studies on interventional endoscopy in bleeding peptic ulcer. It does not harm patient recruitment that the hospital serves a population of 1.2 million of whom a good number seem to have peptic ulcers that haemorrhage. In their latest report, Wong and colleagues looked at clinical, laboratory, . . . [Full text of this article]

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