Bowel movements, bloating, and other digestive issues may not be the easiest topics to discuss with your doctor, but having a ...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic intestinal disorder that affects your digestive health. It can cause repeated ...

Bowel habits vary from person to person. However, sudden changes can indicate an underlying health condition, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Everybody's poop will vary slightly. However, the ideal stool is smooth, easy to pass and brown. Healthy poops shouldn't take ...

Background—Life stress contributes to symptom onset and exacerbation in the majority of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia (FD); research evidence is conflicting, ...

The GI tract is essentially one long tube, starting at the mouth and ending at the anus. Diseases of the GI tract include irritable bowel syndrome and colon cancer. A minimally invasive procedure used ...

People with lactose intolerance don't have enough of the enzyme lactase to digest lactose easily. Lactose-free milk is typically cow's milk that has had lactose removed. This allows people with ...

The irritable bowel syndrome, functional abdominal bloating, functional constipation, and functional diarrhea are distinguished by symptom-based diagnostic criteria. Unspecified FBD lacks criteria for ...

What is Cushing's syndrome? Cushing's syndrome is a hormonal disorder. It’s caused when you have high levels of the hormone cortisol over a long time. Cushing's syndrome is fairly rare. It most often ...

A new survey revealed that frequent social media use leads to higher irritability. In the study, published in JAMA Network Open, researchers examined the relationship between irritability and social ...

What is Zollinger-Ellison syndrome? Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZES) is a rare digestive disorder. If you have ZES, you likely have 1 or more tumors in the first part of the small intestine, the ...