Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

We all know by now that what we eat has a real impact on our day-to-day lives. We need to make sure that we're eating healthy ...

and colon. “As we age, we lose some of the villi and ridges in our GI tract that help with digestion and absorption, as well ...

Dr Grant replies: Often during a camera test into the colon (known as a colonoscopy ... Your camera test report may have the medical term diverticulosis to describe the presence of diverticula ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(9):1360-1368. Our study has several limitations. The most important limitation is that the comparative studies we included in our review were not randomized ...

Last week a patient came to see me looking very unwell. Having just come out of hospital after her first attack of diverticulitis, she was understandably anxious to learn how to ward off further ...

The rising rate of colon cancer in young people can't be caused by diet alone, doctors say. Microplastics, sleep, and antibiotics may play a role.

Less common causes of inflammation in the GI tract include: microscopic colitis diverticulosis-associated ... s disease can also increase the risk of colon cancer if one-third of the colon or ...

Irritation of the bladder or ureter by the inflamed diverticulum may induce pyuria or hematuria and result in the erroneous diagnosis of nephrolithiasis or urinary tract infection. Diverticulitis ...

Chronic abdominal pain happens due to disease, stress, anxiety, and gut-brain dysregulation. This article covers causes and ...

Coffee’s laxative effect has been attributed to the release of gastrin, a hormone the stomach produces that speeds up activity in the colon ... include trauma, infection, drug abuse, muscle ...

The mission of the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at the Johns Hopkins Hospital is to support the institution's tripartite mission of research, teaching, and patient care; ...