We often treat intestinal infections as an episode: a few days of symptoms, elimination of the pathogen, and recovery. In ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term for a group of chronic conditions that cause inflammation and swelling ...

A top nutrition scientist from King’s College, London, has warned that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can raise bowel cancer risk by up to 600 per cent, especially in younger people. Chronic gut ...

A genetics‑guided drug, compound 6, targets CARD9 to subtly calm gut inflammation in Crohn’s disease, pointing to safer, ...

What if creeping fat in Crohn’s disease isn’t collateral damage, but rather the body’s attempt to trap microbiota escaping ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu Digestive symptoms often appear years before tremor in Parkinson’s disease, and growing evidence suggests the gut-brain axis may play a critical role in early disease processes ...

The terms "intestinal barrier" and "intestinal permeability" describe two different aspects of the same anatomical structure, the intestinal wall composed of four layers, the mucosa, the submucosa, ...