Surgery doesn't cure Crohn's disease, and inflammation can continue to cause GI damage. Learn about testing to detect ...

Ulcers in the colon are usually due to a condition like inflammatory bowel disease or an infection. But some medications or procedures can also cause colon ulcers. A colon ulcer is an open sore that ...

Microscopic colitis is colon inflammation that may give you chronic watery diarrhea. Changes to your diet, medications, or surgery might be possible treatments to consider. Microscopic colitis is an ...

Engineers have developed a pill that releases microscopic robots, or microrobots, into the colon to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The experimental treatment, given orally, has shown success ...

Learn ways to manage Crohn’s disease, one form of inflammatory bowel disease, a group of conditions that also includes ulcerative colitis.

Colitis and ulcerative colitis (UC) can look very similar because they share symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody stool, and they both involve inflammation of the colon (the large ...

Patients with colon cancer who consumed an anti-inflammatory diet during a phase 3 clinical trial showed longer overall survival post-treatment compared to those on a proinflammatory diet, according ...

Fatigue is highly prevalent in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published in the January ...

Gastroenterology focuses on diagnosing and treating disorders of the digestive tract and accessory organs to improve patient ...

A variant of the Aeromonas bacterium promoted colon inflammation in mice and was detected in stools and colon tissue from patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Suspecting that gut-resident ...