Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of the most common inflammatory bowel diseases, a lifelong condition that can cause chronic inflammation and ulcers in the lining of the large intestine. This can lead ...

“While there are different theories as to exactly why this occurs, it is thought to result from inappropriate immune system activation.” Joints can be painful even when GI symptoms are in remission, ...

A variant of the Aeromonas bacterium promoted colon inflammation in mice and was detected in stools and colon tissue from patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Suspecting that gut-resident ...

What Is Crohn’s Constipation? You likely have constipation if it's hard for you to poop and you're having fewer bowel movements than you normally do. The same is true whether or not you have Crohn’s ...

Women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are 3 times more likely to forgo having children than people without the condition — it’s a trend driven by fear and confusion about what the disease would ...

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Crohn’s disease and joint pain may seem like two separate conditions, but they can be linked. “Crohn's is an autoimmune condition. The same inflammation targeting the digestive tract can also trigger ...

As in symptomatic Crohn’s disease, inflammation is occurring in the digestive tract, but symptoms may be subtle or even absent, leaving people with the condition unaware that anything is wrong. It can ...

Antibiotics can help treat certain types of colitis, such as infectious colitis. They may also help manage complications of other types of colitis. While more research is necessary, antibiotics may ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a crowded drug market with plenty of treatment options across the two forms of the gastrointestinal disease: ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. But one ...