Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Key Takeaways IBD pain can feel like cramping or sudden pain after eating.Pain from Crohn's disease is often in the right lower quadrant or middle of the ...

Gut inflammation isn’t always caused by the obvious culprits like junk food or infections. Sometimes, the triggers are hiding in plain sight — in your pantry, daily habits, or even your hormones. Here ...

Why Do People Get a Colonoscopy for Ulcerative Colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and sores to form in the large intestine and rectum. It ...

Diagram showing the mechanism discovered in the study. Inflammation of the intestines in ulcerative colitis results from an excessive helper Th2 immune response. Smoking leads to aromatic compounds ...

When geneticist James Lee and his colleagues published a paper in June linking a gene to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), he didn’t expect the public to take much notice. Things did not go as planned ...