Bloating can indicate serious health issues, requiring immediate medical attention, including symptoms like severe stomach pain or recurrent vomiting.

Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are leveraging a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to advance their mechanistic insights into gut microbes.

Anything related to anal health is often ignored, misunderstood, or awkward to talk about. Most people tend to label every discomfort in that area as "piles", but that's not always the case.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and there’s an important trend doctors want people to know about: colon cancer is being diagnosed more often in younger adults. For decades, colorectal ...

Colon cancer is widely talked about, and how widespread it has become. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, accounting for ...

ACA requires firms to cover colonoscopies for over-45s but young people face hurdles to receive appropriate tests As colon cancer rates are rising among people in their 20s and 30s, some adults in the ...

In 2019, Jennifer Lava had just moved to Washington, D.C., to start a new job and chapter. The New Jersey native, then 34, had a remarkably normal life and an unremarkable medical history. "I had been ...

Standard adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer consists of a fluoropyrimidine-plus-oxaliplatin regimen. Whether the addition of atezolizumab (an anti–programmed death ligand 1 agent) to a ...

ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with comprehensive review and analyses of the relevant literature for each recommendation, following the guideline development process as outlined in the ASCO ...

This story is sponsored by Intermountain Health. March is Colon Cancer Awareness month. According to a study published in January 2026 by the Journal of American Medical Association, colorectal cancer ...

If you’re under 50, it’s likely that colorectal cancer isn’t on your radar, but it should be. Once considered an older-age disease, rates are skyrocketing among young adults. Deema Zein spoke with two ...

Nearly half of Americans don’t know that processed meat increases colorectal cancer risk, according to a new poll. But once they learn the connection, most support warning labels—suggesting people ...