Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human ...

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

Medically reviewed by Kumkum S. Patel, MD You may notice you tend to fart when you walk. Passing gas is how the body gets rid ...

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

Colon cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers globally, especially among adults over 45. Crucial in prevention and early ...

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 ...

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZES) is a rare digestive disorder. If you have ZES, you likely have 1 or more tumors in the first part of the small intestine, the pancreas, or both. These tumors are ...

The cells that line your small intestine have to balance two seemingly ... so the immune system keeps them as back-ups in the deeper parts of the tissue," adds Reina-Campos. What keeps these ...

This innovative method also allows the individual analysis of the factors involved in the organization and functioning of the intestine ... This work is part of Enara Larrañaga's doctoral ...

This study explores the effects of norfloxacin (NOR) on oxidative damage, iron (Fe) transport, energy metabolism, and immunotoxicity in the intestine of large yellow croaker under Fe stress. The fish ...

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 at Uppsala University.

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the narrator visits a friend who is in the hospital after severing the tips of ...