The gall bladder is seldom brought up in conversation until it is out of order. This little, pear-shaped organ lies just under the liver and is the ma.

One of the key warning signs of appendicitis is pain. In most cases, the pain begins around the navel and gradually shifts to the lower right side of the abdomen ...

Diets, Food Health Benefits, Diseases, Therapy Share and Cite: Menkovska, M. and Raza, S. (2025) Human Gut Microbiome in ...

Since vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, any excess is excreted in the urine in a few hours. Current U.S. recommendations call for 75 mg of vitamin C per day for adult women and 90 mg per day for ...

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is an extremely rare disease in which your body can’t absorb enough nutrients from food because part of your small intestine is missing or damaged. The small intestine is ...

Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Science, "Regional encoding of enteric nervous system ...

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Eating a gluten-free diet is the only ...

To study absorption, two different approaches have been used. In vivo methods, such as measuring the disappearance of a test substance from the gut, its appearance in body fluids or its fecal output, ...

IN the latter part of the nineteenth century discovery of the bacterial basis for many diseases, together with dramatic demonstrations of the potency of bacterial toxins, led to the concept of ...

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Results from a new study suggest a combination of the diabetes drug Ozempic and an innovative new intestinal procedure could help erase the need for insulin in folks with Type 2 diabetes. Photo by ...

Results from a very small study suggest that a combination of the diabetes drug Ozempic and an innovative new intestinal procedure could help erase the need for insulin in folks with Type 2 diabetes.