A gastrointestinal (GI) disease affects your digestive tract—the path food and drink take through your body and the digestive organs. GI diseases can impact your esophagus (the tube running down from ...

This comprehensive review synthesizes a decade of human and animal research to explain how the gut and brain communicate ...

Motility disorders are disorders where the gastrointestinal tract has lost its ability to coordinate the muscles that perform common functions, such as swallowing or moving food and waste through the ...

Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to fear may be involved. This is the ...

Motility disorders are conditions that affect the movement of food and waste through the digestive tract. There are many types of motility disorder and they can impact any part of the digestive tract, ...

People with digestive system diseases should pay special attention to try to prevent dementia, a new study warns. That’s because certain gastrointestinal problems are linked to dementia — and some ...

The digestive system’s rhythms are controlled by body clock genes, as well as lesser-known regulators called noncanonical clock regulators. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine aimed to ...

Elimination diets are frequently used to manage gastrointestinal symptoms, such as abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, constipation, and diarrhea, which do not have an organic explanation. The most ...

With digestive disorders emerging as one of the most common yet under-addressed health concerns in India, Kauvery Hospital, ...