For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ancestors that serves no real purpose. That view is now outdated. A ...

Bananas get blamed for blood sugar spikes because they taste sweet and travel well. Many people label them "too sugary" for diabetes. Yet glucose responses depend on dose, ripeness, timing, and the ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong: from our cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to our guts and urinary ...

Background A detailed mapping of functional differences among intestinal regions in healthy individuals remains incomplete. Identifying regional alterations in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) ...

Research Fellow, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes, School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, ...

When it comes to intestines, it sure seems like two are better than one. I asked my friend Franck Carbonero why that is. He’s a microbiologist at Washington State University. He studies the bacteria ...

The gut microbiome is an important ecosystem of microbes that lives in each one of us, and its strength affects our overall health. However, the small intestine is an underappreciated part of the gut ...

Scientists mapped gene expression and cell behavior in response to perturbations such as changes in the microbiome and inflammation. Findings point to remarkable regional structure across different ...

A man who just had surgical staples removed from his stomach “forcibly” sneezed, causing his incision site to rupture Getty A man who had recently had abdominal surgery sneezed out parts of his large ...

Share on Pinterest The FDA has updated the label of Ozempic to include blocked intestines among the potential side effect of the drug. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Getty Images The FDA is warning patients ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has updated the label of the diabetes drug Ozempic to acknowledge reports of blocked intestines in some people using the medication. Ozempic and its sister drug, ...