Your abdominal pain can be traced back to both serious and regular root causes, deeming medical examination necessary. | ...

Celiac disease is often viewed as an intestinal disorder, but the process that leads to it rarely begins in the small ...

Inflammatory bowel disease affects millions of people worldwide, yet scientists still don't fully understand what drives the ...

Breads, smoothies and cereals that contain a “supercharged” form of fibre could go on sale in Europe within the next year. The fibre stimulates the release of hunger-reducing hormones such as GLP-1, ...

Starchy foods can spike your blood sugar because they break down so easily in the small intestine. But there is an easy way to fix this problem, says Dr. Trisha Pasricha, a physician at Beth Israel ...

Fried foods slow gastric emptying, worsening bloating and digestive discomfort Slow digestion from fried foods causes heaviness, reflux, and gut microbiome issues Reducing fried food improves gut ...

Researchers have developed a stem cell-based model of the human intestine that may transform how new IBD treatments are discovered. After testing thousands of compounds, they identified glycyrrhizin — ...

When a juvenile humpback whale washed ashore near Yachats in November, spurring the community to action before the animal’s eventual euthanization, one main culprit was identified: crabbing gear, ...

During hard exercise, when your muscles are starved of oxygen, your metabolism shifts to produce energy in ways that make your muscle cells more acidic. This rising acidity contributes (in various ...

A well-known businesswoman and philanthropist was in "excruciating pain" from a twisted intestine not flagged up to clinicians before she died, an inquest has heard. Dame Julie Kenny, who was known ...

Dame Julie Kenny was a well-known businesswoman who helped to save stately home Wentworth Woodhouse A well-known businesswoman and philanthropist was in "excruciating pain" from a twisted intestine ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Over the past few years GLP-1 drugs have gone from relatively obscure diabetes ...