The human gastrointestinal tract houses roughly 100 trillion microorganisms (good bacteria). These microorganisms make up ...

Your trickiest digestive-health questions, answered by experts. How healthy is your gut microbiome? Could the bloating or discomfort you feel after eating or drinking … be a sign that something in ...

Tourists visiting an unfamiliar city would have a hard time finding their way around if they were using nothing but a topological map, no matter how detailed. Most tourist maps, therefore, highlight ...

In a recent study published in Gastroenterology, researchers assessed the infectivity of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant in the intestinal tract.

Research shows that a single drinking binge—roughly four drinks for women or five for men within about two hours—can disrupt ...

When it comes to closing incisions or other wounds in the digestive tract, sutures alone aren't enough to keep digestive fluids or food waste from leaking out into the abdomen. A new hydrogel patch is ...