Men who are infertile have twice the risk of colorectal cancer and three times the risk of thyroid cancer, new research shows.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, affects millions and can be unpredictable, painful, and exhausting. While there’s no cure yet, advances in ...

Research shows that the time it takes for poop to leave your body can affect your overall health. Chronic constipation and ...

Treatment failure occurs when an ulcerative colitis medication isn’t helping symptoms. Most important, know that it’s not your fault. Learn what to do next.

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

New research reveals a lack of consensus in defining moderate Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, limiting optimal ...

The oral Janus kinase inhibitor upadacitinib was well tolerated for moderate to severe inflammatory bowel disease over a ...

A bowel cancer trial using immunotherapy before surgery has shown zero relapses after nearly three years, offering hope for ...

A new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine found that the protein caspase-5 (CASP5), long thought to be a foot ...

New research questions the benefits for some older adults of screening colonoscopies and the drug levothyroxine (Synthroid) ...

Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT ...

Conventional wisdom holds that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can trigger disease flares in patients with ...