I hope this meeting wraps up soon, thought Katie Thompson, checking the time after sitting in a conference room for nearly 30 minutes. Unable to withstand her abdominal pain and bloat, she had no ...

Scientists have uncovered how a gut bacterium, Clostridium scindens, aids in healing intestinal injuries by restoring bile acid balance. Their findings could pave the way for new treatments for ...

Few randomized, controlled trials have investigated the efficacy of pharmacological treatment ... colitis and collagenous colitis are the two subtypes of microscopic colitis—characterized by ...

The human gut is home to trillions of bacteria that play vital roles in digestion, immunity, and overall health. When this ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, between 600,000 and 900,000 Americans have ulcerative colitis, a chronic ...

Knowing what type of ulcerative colitis you have can help determine which type of treatment will be most ... Proctosigmoiditis is a result of chronic inflammation in the colon, like all types ...

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are idiopathic ... important subsets of patients for whom the natural history of disease and response to treatment are predictable. The most widely held ...

“After trying to live with what I thought was a sensitive stomach for a few years, I had a colonoscopy in 2019, which confirmed my doctor’s suspicion that I had ulcerative colitis (UC), a ...