NSAIDs have an inhibitory effect on the protective prostaglandins, and they uncouple mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in the mucosal enterocytes. Both of these factors can lead to increased ...

IBD is actually an immune system disorder with an unknown cause, diet can influence symptoms but not cause the disease.

You were just diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Now what? Here, gastroenterologists share the 7 questions to ask your doctor ...

Broad-spectrum antibiotics will alter the composition of the human gut microbiome, with transiently reduced bacterial diversity. Thus, it is reasonable to hypothesize that antibiotic-induced ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, causes chronic (long-term) inflammation and leads to symptoms like frequent diarrhea, abdominal pain, and ...

Inflammatory bowel disease, in which the immune system attacks the gut, is a painful chronic condition that affects three million Americans. Rates of IBD are rising, and there’s currently no cure. IBD ...

People who have pro-inflammatory diets are up to three times more likely to have moderate-to-severe IBD, according to a new study.

Colitis and ulcerative colitis (UC) can look very similar because they share symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody stool, and they both involve inflammation of the colon (the large ...

Japan had 254.8 cases of ulcerative colitis and 77 cases of Crohn's per 100,000 people, and a new study shows that the cases ...