Recurring mouth ulcers can be a warning sign for underlying health issues. From nutritional deficiencies to chronic diseases, ...

NSAIDs, including aspirin, significantly increase the risk of adverse gastrointestinal events, particularly those related to gastric and/or duodenal mucosal injury: erosions, ulcers and ulcer ...

Five of the patients had ulcers in the stomach, seven in the duodenum, one in both the stomach and the jejunum (part of the small intestine just below the duodenum). They all got better quickly ...

Peptic ulcers are a fairly common problem. According to the US National Institute of Health, people stand a 5 to 10 percent ...

SINCE 1910, when Moynihan 1 clearly described the clinical features of duodenal ulcer, there has been general agreement that the history is all important in diagnosis. Indeed, in the presence of a ...

A federal lawsuit filed on Monday accuses a southern Minnesota jail of failing to provide adequate medical care for a detainee shortly before his death.

A peptic ulcer is the term used for a sore that occurs in the mucosal lining of the stomach, small intestine, or esophagus. When the ulcer is in the stomach it might also be called a gastric ulcer.