World Digestive Health Day 2020
Happy World Digestive Health Day! Today is a much awaited day on the Guts UK calendar. Guts UK is the only UK charity funding research into the digestive system from top to tail; the gut,...
29th May 2020
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Your Comments: Mental Health Awareness Week
Digestive symptoms and conditions can have a real impact upon every-day life, that our community sometimes find others can underestimate. Managing pain, being unable to predict symptoms from day-to-day and anxiety surrounding accessing near-by toilet...
22nd May 2020
Eosinophilic Awareness Week 2020
This week, Guts UK wants to raise awareness, encourage collaboration and research into eosinophilic diseases. What are Eosinophilic Diseases? Eosinophilic Diseases (pronounced ee-oh-sin-oh-fil-ik) that affect the gut are identified by the presence of a type...
18th May 2020
World Barrett’s Day
Guts UK is one of the many worldwide charities collaborating to raise awareness of Barrett’s oesophagus for the first ever World Barrett’s Day – 16th May 2020. What is Barrett’s oesophagus? Around 10% of persistent...
16th May 2020
Coeliac Awareness Week – Lockdown as a Coeliac Dietitian
...to upload videos onto our Trust website and I have already been sharing some videos with Patient Webinars – an online platform with useful dietetic webinars and information for patients...
12th May 2020
Could cancer anti-sickness drug help IBS patients?
Could a commonly-prescribed anti-sickness drug be the answer for the 1.3 million people in the UK who struggle with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D)? A nationwide clinical trial led by researchers at The University...
2nd March 2020
The Gut Quiz
Team Guts UK have created a quiz to help you with any fundraising you’re taking on! The quiz is jam-packed with interesting facts, from the microbes that live in our gut to saliva – we’ve...
7th National Pancreas Patient & Public Forum – 2020
**Please note that this forum has now been cancelled due to Covid-19. Please check Twitter @pancforumlpool for the latest updates** Plans for the 7th National Pancreas Patient and Public Forum are now taking shape, with...
12th February 2020
UK ranks poorly for deadliest cancer survival
Guts UK is a founding member of the Less Survivable Taskforce and we’re calling for government support on World Cancer Day. This World Cancer Day, the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) is calling on UK...
World Cancer Day 2020
On 4th February, charities, individuals and organisations across the globe come together for World Cancer Day – a day that unites people, communities and entire countries to take action. An important part of our work at...