Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are on the rise in Australia. Here’s what is driving the increase in incidence – and ...

Previously, only a small percentage of drugs tested to treat conditions like inflammatory bowel disease were approved, in part because the causes were poorly understood. Even better, the drugs ...

Learn how small bowel obstruction develops, warning signs to watch for, and proven methods to prevent serious complications.

New research is helping debunk the myth that small, hard foods could get stuck in the colon, inflaming the pockets that ...

Gut inflammation causes more than just intestinal discomfort ... It’s important to point out that this study was only done on a small group of people, and it was also funded by the Cherry ...

Scintigraphy scans were positive in 33 of 39 patients with Crohn's disease who had small-bowel inflammation at laparotomy and/or enteroscopy, and in 3 of 8 patients without macroscopic evidence of ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Walnut Creek Outpatient Cetner will become one of the only children's hospital on the West ...

Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is being increasingly used to investigate small bowel pathology. It is the gold standard for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and iron deficiency anemia. VCE has ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), encompassing Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis, subtly manifests in infants through feeding ...

In vivo, the intestinal epithelium interacts with the neighboring environment through complex crosstalk, which involves components such as the immune system, tissue microenvironment, and gut microbes.