A new therapy that combines two existing drugs shows promise for patients with inflammatory bowel disease who have exhausted ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected mechanism by which the gut’s immune system maintains balance, challenging ...

IBD is an immune condition. Instead of peacefully coexisting with gut microbes, the immune system becomes overly reactive, ...

Chronic immune diseases are shaped by multiple inflammatory processes happening at the same time, each in different parts of ...

A five-day-a-month diet successfully reduced intestinal inflammation and improved symptoms in patients with Crohn's disease.

Chronic inflammatory bowel disease is challenging to treat and carries a risk of complications, including the development of bowel cancer. Young people are particularly affected: when genetic ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), affecting an estimated 6–8 million people worldwide, may soon be monitored with a simple ...

Research by Milena Bogunovic, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology, sheds light on how inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, such as that associated with inflammatory bowel disease ...

A stem cell-derived intestine model reveals glycyrrhizin as a potential treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.

What is IBD: IBD is a chronic inflammatory condition of the digestive tract, with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis as its main forms, each affecting different areas and requiring tailored care.

People with the skin condition psoriasis often have invisible inflammation in the small intestine with an increased propensity for 'leaky gut', according to new research. These changes in the gut ...

The appendix is an organ we tend not to think about until it acts up, causes illness and needs to be removed surgically.