While salad dressings add a burst of flavor to your salad, some store-bought salad dressings do have links to colon cancer.

Serious colon issues often develop quietly, making early symptoms easy to overlook. Conditions like colon cancer can start ...

Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

There are several potential causes of chronic inflammation, including excessive alcohol consumption, environmental factors, poor diet quality, stress and an inadequate amount of quality sleep.

Why Do People Get a Colonoscopy for Ulcerative Colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and sores to form in the large intestine and rectum. It ...

Fulminant colitis is a rare but severe form of colitis that can be life threatening. It affects the entire lining of the colon, causing severe inflammation and potentially serious complications. In ...

Venuprasad Poojary, PhD, an associate investigator at Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR), part of Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, reported this week in the journal Nature ...

Mohammad Samad's stage 3 colon cancer was misdiagnosed as stress, IBS, and Crohn's disease.

Chemical colitis is a condition that occurs when certain chemicals come into contact with the colon and cause inflammation. This exposure can occur through using a contaminated endoscope or ...

Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway that leads to increased insulin production. While their previous work ...

A new study has produced strong evidence that red meat consumption is a trigger for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), demonstrating how it alters gut bacteria and immune activity in ways that worsen ...