These guys—the good-guy bacteria—wait in your intestines for food to come from your stomach. Then they take ... and break it down into something your body recognizes as nutrients (which ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about ... The esophagus empties into the stomach, a large, muscular chamber that mixes ...

A Maryland woman said she was horrified to learn that the crematorium she picked to handle her father’s remains was cited for ...

but its capacity to dwell in the human body's harshest chemical environment would help identify it as the cause of serious afflictions of the stomach, including cancer. Drs. Barry Marshall and ...

Once inside a pig or human body, they can cause intestinal ascariasis. Now, these worms aren't exactly social butterflies (or social worms, for that matter). Adult worms live solo in the ...

The WA Health Department has confirmed a startling link between rising rates of a parasitic stomach bug and overseas travel, ...

Some of the effects that radiation has on a human body are shown below ... Lungs Breathing in radioisotopes can damage DNA. Stomach Radioactive isotopes can sit in the stomach and irradiate ...