Our gut is the key to much of our body's overall health, which is why diseases like ulcerative colitis can be so detrimental. Ulcerative colitis is one of the most common inflammatory bowel diseases.

For decades, patients with inflammatory bowel disease have reported a familiar and frustrating pattern: periods of intense ...

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It can be overwhelming to receive a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a condition which refers to the chronic diseases that can cause inflammation in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

Background IBD is characterised by recurrent flares, but evidence on whether modifiable dietary factors influence flare risk ...

Trying to juggle work, a packed social calendar, stretched budgets, and family time during the holiday season from late November into the new year can be stressful for anyone. But if you’re also ...

A new study published in the journal of Inflammatory Bowel Disease shows low mortality and tolerable morbidity after total abdominal colectomy (TAC) for ulcerative colitis (UC), with ...

A woman who was going to the toilet 40 times a day says she feels like a "new woman" after having her entire bowel removed during emergency surgery and now lives with a permanent stoma. Charlie Ryan, ...

To understand how other health problems can look like IBD, it helps to understand the differences between the two main types of IBD. For example, while Crohn’s and UC can both cause diarrhea, bleeding ...

Fulminant colitis is a rare but severe form of colitis that can be life threatening. It affects the entire lining of the colon, causing severe inflammation and potentially serious complications. In ...

Phase 3b LUCENT-URGE is the first study in inflammatory bowel disease to assess bowel urgency across three measures — severity, frequency and stool deferral time — reflecting the spectrum of its ...