The gut microbiome is an important ecosystem of microbes that lives in each one of us, and its strength affects our overall health. However, the small intestine is an underappreciated part of the gut ...

Bacteria in the small intestine adapt dynamically to our nutritional state, with individual species disappearing and reappearing. Researchers have now been able to comprehensively study the bacteria ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy seems to prevent about two-thirds of deaths from colon cancer, rather than 90 percent as has been widely claimed, a study ...

Colonoscopy is a diagnos­tic as well as a therapeutic procedure performed to eval­uate the large intestine (colon, rectum, and anus). A colonoscopy lets the phy­sician look inside your entire large ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Your gut bacteria could say a lot about you, such as why you’re diabetic or how you respond to certain drugs. But scientists can see only so much of the gastrointestinal tract ...