Researchers found that just 20 minutes of comfortable walking can rapidly stimulate the gut. Within one to two minutes after exercise, bowel sounds became stronger, more frequent, and lasted longer, ...

Kellie Finlayson was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer just three months after welcoming her first child Zoey Lyttle is a Writer-Reporter on the Society & Culture team at PEOPLE. She first joined ...

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 ...

Sixteen Beagle dogs were randomized to four intestinal injury models (n = 4 each): (1) single-site small bowel transection, (2) suspected long-segment small-bowel ischemia/necrosis, (3) two-site small ...

Being someone who has ADHD means that their brain experiences the world in a much different way than others. Things can often feel so much louder and intense than people without ADHD even realize. In ...

The upper panel illustrates reduced gut motility in patients with constipation and its improvement following physical activity through an unknown mechanism. The middle panel depicts the experimental ...

Rural hospitals made up a larger share of 2026 layoffs as closures slowed. About 720 rural hospitals remain at risk of closing, raising access concerns. If Passed, Idaho's Proposition 1 Would Allow ...

Women are dramatically more likely than men to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic condition causing abdominal pain, bloating, and digestive discomfort. Now, scientists at UC San ...

Scientists at the University of Augsburg have discovered a particularly active subgroup of blood platelets that may cause heart attacks in people with coronary heart disease despite drug therapy. This ...

—Despite the prevalence of multiple domains in dementia, little is known about their neuropathological basis. More knowledge in this area could help improve the clinical course of the disease and ...

Sabina Ali, MD (front) uses a new intestinal ultrasound (IUS) machine on Dhiya Ravikumar (back) at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Walnut Creek. Photo by Brian Feulner Dhiya Ravikumar would ...