Infections

For patients who have failed two, three or even four rounds of H. pylori eradication, a new class of acid-suppressing drug is quietly rewriting the treatment algorithm. Vonoprazan-based bismuth quadruple therapy is delivering cure rates above 92% in real-world populations with heavy antibiotic resistance — and achieving rescue success where every previous regimen has failed. For a carcinogen long regarded as one of the hardest to eradicate, this is a genuine paradigm shift.

You return from an exotic holiday with sun-kissed skin and wonderful memories—but also with a persistent rumble in your stomach that just won't settle. Three weeks post-travel, you're still managing loose stools, bloating, or unusual food intolerances that weren't there before you left. If this sounds familiar, you're not alone. Traveller's diarrhoea is one of the most common health complaints among international travellers, affecting up to 40% of those visiting developing re

If you have been treated for Helicobacter pylori and it did not work — if you took two weeks of antibiotics, endured the side effects, retested, and were told the infection is still there — you are part of a growing population of patients facing one of the most challenging problems in modern gastroenterology: antibiotic-resistant H. pylori. You are not alone. Eradication failure rates for standard first-line therapy have climbed steadily over the past decade, and in some Aust

You sleep eight hours and wake up tired. Coffee barely makes a dent. By mid-afternoon you are struggling to think clearly, your concentration is shot, and you cannot shake the feeling that something is fundamentally wrong. You have had your thyroid checked, your iron levels tested, your vitamin B12 and folate measured. Everything comes back normal. Your doctor says you are fine. But you do not feel fine. And the answer might be living in your colon. The Gut-Energy Connection

Clostridioides difficile — known simply as C. diff — is one of the most dreaded infections in modern medicine. It causes debilitating diarrhoea, severe abdominal pain, and in its most severe form, life-threatening colitis that can require emergency surgery. It is the most common cause of healthcare-associated diarrhoea worldwide, and its capacity to recur after treatment makes it one of the most psychologically and physically exhausting infections a patient can endure. But th

Helicobacter pylori is one of the most common bacterial infections on the planet. It colonises the stomach lining of approximately half the world's population, and in many people it causes no symptoms at all. But in those it does affect, the consequences can be serious: peptic ulcers, chronic gastritis, gastric lymphoma, and — most significantly — gastric cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide. The World Health Organisation classifies H. pylori as a Group

You have been bloated for months. Maybe years. Your bowel habits swing between diarrhoea and constipation with no discernible pattern. You are tired — not the ordinary end-of-day tiredness, but a bone-deep fatigue that sleep does not fix. You have seen your GP, had blood tests, maybe even a colonoscopy. Everything comes back normal. You are told you have irritable bowel syndrome and handed a fact sheet about the low-FODMAP diet. But what if the real cause of your symptoms is