Treatment for short bowel syndrome varies by stage and may include intravenous (IV) nutrition, feeding tubes, dietary changes ...

Patients with celiac disease have impaired microbial fiber metabolism and fewer fiber-metabolizing gut microbes. Adding inulin fiber and specific bacteria may speed healing.

Allergies are usually associated with the immune system, genetics, and environmental factors. Increasingly, however, another element is appearing in this puzzle: the gut microbiota. A review of ...

Doctors will typically diagnose short bowel syndrome early in life or from surgery required due to another health condition ...

An enteroscopy is a procedure that uses a flexible tube called an endoscope to examine inside the small intestine. Enteroscopy is a nonsurgical procedure to diagnose and manage conditions of the small ...

Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be said about an elephant by examining just its tail? Researchers have studied what is most ...

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) affects how well the small intestine absorbs nutrients. Surgery, medications, and nutritional support are all part of a comprehensive treatment plan for this condition. SBS ...

A new preclinical study from Weill Cornell Medicine found that the protein caspase-5 (CASP5), long thought to be a foot ...