Hirschsprung disease and meconium ileus can both cause a newborn to be unable to pass their first stool. Learn the different ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign pathogens, these exquisitely sensitive cells somehow distinguish friend ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign pathogens, these exquisitely sensitive cells somehow distinguish friend ...

Vitamin D, renowned for its role in bone health, is crucial for gut integrity and disease prevention. Research from the ...

The global population consumes too much fructose, a sugar found in many ultra-processed foods like cookies and energy drinks.

Study in mice identifies essential immune cells in the intestine that help to prevent unwarranted reactions to harmless food allergens.

Researchers found that a small population of immune cells in the mouse intestine prevents allergic responses to food, suggesting that targeting such cells therapeutically could potentially lead to a ...

Most of the time, the intestinal immune system can recognize friend from foe, tolerating myriad foods while destroying ...

At only two days old, Sophie was losing too much weight, and too quickly. Further genetic testing would show that Sophie has ...

Further genetic testing would show that Sophie has one of a group of rare conditions called CODE (congenital diarrhea and enteropathies) that disrupts the function of cells in the intestine, causing ...

The pathogens Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium are common causes of sometimes-fatal intestinal diseases in humans, ...

If you have high cholesterol, you have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. That can include coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. High cholesterol has also been ...