Microbiota transplantation is safe and effective for treating clostridioides difficile infections, according to a clinical trial published in the journal Gastroenterology. Recurrent clostridioides ...

More Americans under 50 are being hospitalized with severe diverticulitis—a painful colon infection once rare in younger adults. Diverticulitis occurs when small pouches in the colon wall become ...

Experts discuss how implementation science integrates research findings and evidence-based guidelines into health care services to improve quality and effectiveness. Implementation science can improve ...

Fulminant colitis is a rare but severe form of colitis that can be life threatening. It affects the entire lining of the colon, causing severe inflammation and potentially serious complications. In ...

Peggy Lillis was a healthy single mom raising two boys and working extra jobs on the weekend. All that ended on April 21, 2010, when an ICU doctor told her son Liam that his mom, who had been healthy ...

If the infection returns—which occurs in about one in four cases—doctors may recommend a second course of antibiotics or a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT). FMT is a procedure that uses a colonoscope ...

A mouse study shows that intestinal infections seed long-lived, antigen-specific memory CD4+ T cells in the dura mater, which ...