It’s a finding that is associated with many diseases, and treatment depends on the exact cause. Colitis can be due to ...

There are many mechanisms at work here, but the blood sugar increase is probably secondary to the weight gain, rather than ...

It is useful for differentiating infectious colitis from idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease. If stool studies are nondiagnostic and symptoms persist despite medical intervention, flexible ...

NHS staff missed the chance to save a patient because of junior doctors’ strikes, an inquest heard.John Doyle’s death could ...

Researchers found that a chromosome 6 locus within the HLA region was significantly associated with severe vs less severe ulcerative colitis.

An inflammation of the inner lining of the colon (large intestine). It may be caused due to various reasons such as infection, allergy, lack of oxygen, and inflammatory bowel disease. Abdominal ...

Results from a retrospective cohort study show lower all-cause mortality and fewer hospitalizations and intestinal ...

COVID-19 was significantly associated with an increased risk for alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, vitiligo, Behçet disease, Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid ... in association with ...

which is protective in ulcerative colitis but detrimental in Crohn's disease, diet, the use of antibiotics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), stress and infection. Unfortunately ...

Not everyone responds equally well to treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). What will work for individual patients involves trial and error during the treatment process.

Patients with small-volume, bloody diarrhea and lower abdominal cramping and tenesmus are likely to have colitis. When diarrhea is the result of an infection, invasive bacteria are the most likely ...