Iron homeostasis in inflammation: a single centre prospective observational study in medical inpatients

Patients with an inflammatory process may present with decreased, normal or increased total body iron stores. However, research regarding the clinical significance of different iron states in inflammatory diseases is conflicting.

Precision global health in the digital age

Use of affordable and sustainable innovations to foster progress and improvement in global health is known as “precision global health”. This can contribute to greater effectiveness of interventions in global public health.

Early biomarker response and patient preferences to oral and intramuscular vitamin B12 substitution in primary care: a randomised parallel-group trial

Vitamin B12 can be administered orally or intramuscularly. The injections are usually painful, and so oral administration may be more acceptable to patients, as well as more cost-effective.

Two-step procedure for complicated appendicitis with perityphlitic abscess formation

In appendicitis cases without generalised peritonitis it is unclear whether the benefits of emergency appendectomy outweigh the potential benefits of an initial conservative approach followed by interval appendectomy.