A hospital in Vietnam reported on Tuesday night that its doctors had successfully performed emergency endoscopy, laparoscopic surgery, and open surgery on a two-year-old girl who swallowed 27 magnets, ...

MORGANTOWN – WVU Medicine is playing a lead role in a national clinical study of a minimally invasive surgical procedure for ...

A new nasal delivery method for amifostine could protect healthy tissue during pancreatic cancer radiation therapy, ...

Protecting the duodenum Expanding upon these findings, a new delivery method developed by Xerient and funded in part by the ...

Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides ...

Other things that could cause an increase in lactose intolerance include infections, inflammatory or autoimmune diseases like ...

Flatulence is the expulsion of gases from the digestive system through the anus. Eructation or burping/belching is expulsion ...

The digestive system comprises several organs, all working in concert to turn the food you eat into energy. But sometimes, illness or injury can lead to a digestive disease that threatens your ...

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was dangerous? And what if frogs could help you do it?

Starch is a key energy source in the human diet, but resistant starch (RS) is a special form that bypasses digestion in the ...

However, for some people, the adhesion may cause the intestine to become fixed or stuck on another organ. Additionally, the adhesions may form between different parts of the small or large bowel.

Recent studies reveal that the human appendix plays roles in gut microbiota restoration and immunity, contrary to its ...