However, as they cause side effects in other organs, researchers are trying to figure out how they can deliver them directly to immune cells. The breakthrough provides IBD sufferers with some hope.

These include inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which refers to conditions that involve long-term gut inflammation. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the most common types people get.

Share on Pinterest Common antibiotics may heighten the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by damaging the gut, a mouse study suggests. Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images. As of 2019 ...

Left upper quadrant pain (LUQ) is felt on the left side of the upper abdomen. It can caused by conditions like GERD, stomach ...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), especially women, have a high prevalence of sexual dysfunction (SD), according to a study in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis. The findings are from a ...

People with conditions such as IBD or colon cancer or who have had abdominal ... The abdomen contains organs necessary for digestion. More specifically, the lower left abdomen typically includes ...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic conditions that significantly ...

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 ...

Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Immunobiology Research ... so we need to think carefully as clinicians and look to other organ systems for clues," he said.

The study demonstrates that antibiotics interfere with the protective mucus layer in the intestine, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of antibiotic effects and IBD development.

As of 2019, about 4.9 million people globally were living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There is currently no cure for IBD and scientists are still not sure what the exact cause of the ...