The two main types of IBD are: ulcerative colitis, which causes inflammation in the large intestine, usually the colon Crohn’s disease, linked to inflammation in any part of the digestive tract ...

Short bowel syndrome is an extremely rare disease of the intestines ... When you have short bowel syndrome, a large part of your small intestine is either removed or damaged and doesn’t work.

After a colonoscopy, a gastroenterologist diagnosed her with ulcerative colitis (UC), a disease where the body’s immune cells overreact and attack the colon—part of the large intestine ...

A study reveals how the Wingless signalling pathway shapes the embryonic intestine of the Drosophila ... these mechanisms could give insights into diseases related to morphogenesis and organ ...

Since the measles vaccine was developed in 1963, infections declined to the point that the disease was declared ... small percentage had complications, a large number of children became very ...

but also in the intestine, could lead to the development of new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease in the future, in addition to its importance ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, I contracted and ...