New research shows that gut bacteria and metabolites may reveal early warning signs of multiple gastrointestinal diseases. Scientists have uncovered biological signals in the gut that may make it ...

We are our own worst enemy When, oh when, is the American medical community going to accept the reality that this country’s biggest healthcare problem isn’t insurance or medications; ...

Colorectal cancer was the leading cause of cancer death among young people in 2023, according to the American Cancer Society. Even as fewer young people have been dying from cancer in the last three ...

Bowel cancer symptoms can be difficult to identify and are typically only evident during bathroom visits. Macmillan Cancer Support notes that the disease can occasionally cause a blockage, resulting ...

For decades, patients with inflammatory bowel disease have reported a familiar and frustrating pattern: periods of intense stress are often followed by worsening symptoms or full-blown disease flares.

ANSWER: Microscopic colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon. It comes in two pathologic forms -- collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis -- but diarrhea is the main symptom of both.

The ex-wife of football legend George Best revealed she had been diagnosed with colon cancerearlier this month and confirmed that the disease has spread to her liver.

Boehringer Ingelheim has added another drug to its immunology pipeline, licensing an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) ...

I am a 64-year-old female who is in moderate health. After a monthslong bout of diarrhea, blood work, and a colonoscopy, I’ve been diagnosed with microscopic colitis. After a round of budesonide, my ...

One in three children who live with ongoing constipation also develop a urinary tract infection. It is a statistic that ...

Therapeutic progress for fibrostenotic Crohn’s disease has been stalled in a paradox: Antifibrotic drugs require endpoints ...

In the five months that followed, he made multiple visits to three different doctors and was misdiagnosed with stress, IBS, ...