Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Rheumatoid Arthritis Meds Linked to Drug-Induced...
Researchers have discovered that patients with a particular genetic variation are four times more likely to develop pancreatitis if they are prescribed a widely...
Celiac Disease: A Wriggly Solution to a First-World Health Problem
Australian researchers have achieved groundbreaking results in a clinical trial using hookworms to reduce the symptoms of celiac disease. The results are also good...
How Oral Antibiotics Contribute to Pathogenic Gut Infections
In a new study published in the online Sept. 1 issue of Nature, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine pinpoint ways to counter the...
Gut Microbes Treat Illness
Oral administration of a cocktail of bacteria derived from the human gut reduces colitis and allergy-invoked diarrhea in mice.
By Chris Palmer | July 10, 2013
An astounding array...
Gut Microbes Help The Body Extract More Calories From Food
You may think you have your food all to yourself, but you're actually sharing it with a vast community of microbes waiting within your digestive tract. A new study from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine reveals some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats, allowing the host organism to extract more calories from the same amount of food.
