No more getting sick to diagnose coeliac disease

Coeliac disease requires patients to completely avoid foods containing gluten, while a gluten intolerance usually allows some leeway. – dpa

Diagnosing coeliac disease has long been an arduous and daunting process in which people thought to have the condition have to eat wheat – the very food that will make them sick if the concerns prove true.

But a new “game changer” method could make running the gluten gauntlet a thing of the past, according to developers at Australia’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) in Victoria and Brisbane-based Novoviah Pharmaceuticals.