Eating undercooked meat can lead to stomach cancer. This happens because insufficient cooking allows harmful bacteria to ...

Half the world’s population has H. pylori, a type of bacteria that can mess with digestion. So why doesn’t the problem have a higher public profile? By Priya Krishna I’ve never known what it means to ...

Stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, is rare in Western countries but still a serious problem in Asia, especially in ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a common term for two conditions, namely Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, that are marked by chronic inflammation of the digestive tract. With symptoms such ...

Dear Doctors: In your recent column about gastritis, you didn’t mention the possibility of getting H. pylori from flies. I was diagnosed with H. pylori decades ago, and soon after I saw a video in the ...

Bismuth quadruple therapies (BQTs), adding bismuth to triple therapy (proton pump inhibitor, PPI, and two antibiotics), is one of the most effective treatments for Hylicobacter pylori (H pylori) ...