In this installment in our series about diseases preventable by vaccination, we examine hepatitis A and why protection from ...

Most people experience a hernia as a bump under the skin. They occur when an internal organ, most often the small intestine, ...

Deep in the folds of the intestine, in microscopic pockets called crypts, a quiet surveillance system is always at work. Stem cells lining the gut wall are not just rebuilding tissue—they are ...

Base layers typically fall into two buckets: those woven with merino wool and those made from synthetic fibers such as polyester. I wouldn’t blame you if you strongly prefer one over the other, ...

Steven and Victoria Mendoza were thrilled to be expecting their first child. For the first several weeks, their pregnancy was ...

Areeba Pasha, a 2-year-old girl from Kurla, was unable to eat or drink without vomiting due to a rare combination of situs inversus and duodenal web. .

Swallowable smart pills may detect cancer, deliver drugs and take biopsies from inside your gut. Here’s what it means for you.

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine are studying C. diff at multiple levels, from how individual bacterial ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Forget complex supplements; the secret to slashing heart disease risk by 23% lies in a simple dietary shift that clears your skin and flattens your stomach.

Colorectal cancer rates are rising among young people in the U.S. One woman diagnosed at 32 shares the subtle early symptoms ...

The researchers say that the microbes, Akkermansia muciniphila and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, break down the protective ...