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Does repeat colonoscopy actually happen? At Nationwide Children's, 91% of 325 children with IBD had one after diagnosis, nearly 40% then had a treatment change, and only 3% of families declined the repeat scope. #IBD #PedsIBD #NASPGHAN2026
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STRIDE III guidelines presented at UEGWeek @my_ueg Manuscript is published as well thelancet.com/journals/langa…
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PROFILE trial 5 year follow up results presented at UEGWeek @my_ueg ‘top- down’ treatment with Infliximab and Azathioprine reduced unplanned hospitalisation and surgery for patients with moderate to severe Crohn’s disease
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STRIDE-III is a long, careful review. Its core fits on one figure and one table, so here it is on two cards.
The big idea is a good one. Targets are now sorted by what you do when you miss them.
• Actionable targets (clinical response and remission, CRP and calprotectin, endoscopic remission) justify a change of treatment once the current one has been properly optimised.
• Adjunctive targets guide optimisation and closer monitoring, but are not on their own a reason to switch.
• Patient-centred targets (quality of life, disability and fatigue) are handled by shared decision.
That sorting gets a lot right.
• Calprotectin gets sharper numbers (STRIDE-II said 100–250 µg/g): under 200 µg/g is the acceptable range, under 100 µg/g goes with transmural remission in Crohn's and histological remission in UC, and 100 to 200 is a grey zone, so test serially.
• Endoscopic remission in UC is now Mayo 0, with Mayo 1 accepted as an interim target. Histology in UC and transmural healing in Crohn's become adjunctive long-term targets, which fits the evidence, VERDICT included, and histology is not a target in Crohn's at all.
• Urgency is new: no urgency (NRS 2 or less) is a short-term target, but an adjunctive one, so missing it means optimise, not switch.
• In resource-limited settings the targets stay the same and only the tools change.
Card 2 is the one to keep in clinic: how long each drug should take to reach response, remission and normal biomarkers, as windows to reassess rather than hard failure points.
Note: STRIDE-III covers medically managed luminal disease, not perianal disease, pouchitis, extraintestinal manifestations or postoperative care.
The final paragraph is noteworthy. Future versions could move beyond a simple yes or no on hitting a target, towards longitudinal, multidomain approaches, with AI tools and multi-omics biomarkers in the mix. That's where I think the next big questions are: how we hold these targets over a lifetime, and how we deliver them for whole populations, not one patient at a time.
And that’s a great introduction to our work, with much more to come.
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🆕 New global IBD treatment targets presented first at #UEGWeek 2026
STRIDE-III gives clinicians 33 evidence-based recommendations:
▫️ Patient-centred targets alongside mucosal healing
▫️ Clear guidance on tests
▫️ A first chapter for low- and middle-income countries
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Amazing to share the great work happening across our CRF Team’s 😁 linkedin.com/posts/nihr-rese…
We are currently recruiting for a Band 6 Clinical Research Nurse to join our Paediatric Research Team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (12 months fixed term). This is for maternity cover.
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Why join a trial when your baby can get the drug anyway?
In the DOXA trial, stopping open-label doxapram increased parental consent from 27% to 43%.
Sometimes, improving trial recruitment starts with changing what happens outside the trial.
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First patients in Europe recruited to a study supported by CRF which will potentially see life-changing results in children with ulcerative colitis linkedin.com/feed/update/act…
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Wonderful day today celebrating #Red4Research
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@NIHRresearch
Thank you to all patients, families and staff 🥳👏
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Come and see us in Waterfall House for Red for Research Day at Birmingham Children’s Hospital 👩🏼⚕️👨🏽⚕️💊 #red4research @NIHRresearch @BWC_NHS @BirminghamCRF @ResearchBWC 🎈
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Save the date Friday 19 June 2026 #Red4Research
Resources are available here:
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We are currently recruiting for a Band 6 Clinical Research Nurse to join our Paediatric Research Team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (12 months fixed term).
For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact me.
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20-year-old medical student created a handbook for diagnosing skin conditions on black and brown skin.
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"This is a true game changer in the world of research and will give our patients access to more clinical trials."
Read more about a £1.5m windfall that will help to improve health outcomes through research: orlo.uk/dIitJ
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It was great to hear Lord James O'Shaughnessy speak at the @AstraZeneca RWD Summit about the NIHR BioResource's data assets. #FORWDSummit2026
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Fluid restriction in patients with heart failure: a systematic review heart.bmj.com/content/early/…
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We can't always change what hurts us, but we can always find something to hold us up.
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Ustekinumab in pediatric IBD 💉
Systematic review highlights:
• Remission rates similar to adults
• Growth & inflammatory markers improve
• Serious AEs rare—but long-term data limited
What should come next?
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