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Adam Keating's screening caught colon cancer early enough for surgery to be curative as doctors warn cases are rising fast in ...

Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, ...

At a family lunch, Wheaton dad Paul Davis struggled to get down a single bite of food. “I had to stop the meal. I couldn’t ...

The wombat’s intestine does something no other gut on Earth does. Understanding why reveals how deeply evolution can sculpt ...

It's a very treatable form of cancer if caught early, yet younger adults rarely get screened. Patient advocates want more ...

Patients with celiac disease have impaired microbial fiber metabolism and fewer fiber-metabolizing gut microbes. Adding inulin fiber and specific bacteria may speed healing.

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Early-onset disease has doubled over one generation, whereas older-adult incidence is falling, consistent with effective ...

COLUMN: Starchy foods can be part of a healthy diet if you keep two things in mind, namely processing and preparation.

A review of microscopic colitis, a chronic, intermittent inflammatory bowel disease that predominantly affects older women and typically presents with frequent watery, non-bloody stools.