Ease the symptoms of a UC flare, such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever using expert-backed tips, and learn when to seek immediate medical attention.

Tiny ingestible spheres filled with engineered bacteria can detect intestinal bleeding by glowing when they encounter heme. Early tests in mice suggest they could become a quick, noninvasive way to ...

Researchers looked at nearly 1 million colonoscopies performed in Sweden over a 16-year span, including inpatient and outpatient procedures. Rates of bleeding and perforation were found to be lower in ...

To understand how other health problems can look like IBD, it helps to understand the differences between the two main types of IBD. For example, while Crohn’s and UC can both cause diarrhea, bleeding ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...