Just when we thought we had enough on our medical to-do list-Pap smears, mammograms, cholesterol checks, stress management, ...

President of the Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Nigeria (SOGHIN), Professor Jesse Otegbayo, has said that long-term exposure to fine particle pollution quietly circulating round the ...

Research carried out on mice has revealed how a hormone released by the intestine acts on the brain and helps regulate the ...

Weight-loss surgery seems to lower the risk of colorectal cancer by changing where bile acids enter the small intestine, ...

Now, researchers are turning to an unexpected source for early PDAC detection: faecal samples. While analysing poo might seem ...

BE is the only known precursor to esophageal cancer. The condition is caused by prolonged exposure of the esophagus to ...

A man was hospitalized after more than three feet of his small intestine broke through a two-inch hole in his abdomen where ...

The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

Although cancer of the appendix is rare — typically, it's estimated to affect about 1 or 2 people for every 1 million in the United States each year — diagnoses are rising sharply among Generation X ...

A total of 65 cases of primary small-bowel tumor were found, and in 33 of these the tumors were malignant. Shallow, Eger and Carty 5 state that primary cancer of the small intestine occurs in 0.1 ...

The drug Syntis is working on does not actually shorten the intestine, like gastric bypass does. Instead, it creates a temporary coating in the upper part of the small intestine, blocking the ...