When you’re dealing with uncomfortable (or downright painful) GI symptoms, from feeling an urgent need to go to seeing blood in the toilet, the signs might point to an inflammatory bowel disease like ...

Larissa Banitt is a registered nurse who combines her English and Nursing degrees in writing health content. She has worked on the floor on a medical-surgical unit and currently works providing care ...

A case report suggests that early use of oral tecovirimat may be an effective treatment for patients with monkeypox and severe proctitis. The report is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

A 51-year-old man with fever, diarrhea, tenesmus, and severe perianal pain was found to have acute proctitis with ulcerative rectal lesions and later developed a pustular rash; polymerase chain ...

Abdominal pain is prevalent in patients with active and quiescent ulcerative colitis (UC), affects a higher proportion of patients during active disease, and is worse among women, patients with ...

Ulcerative colitis usually affects the large intestine and causes continuous inflammation. Crohn's disease can affect any part of the digestive tract and often shows patchy inflammation. Smoking can ...

ORLANDO -- More than a third of patients with ulcerative colitis also experienced debilitating joint pain, which can wreak havoc on their quality of life, a cross-sectional study showed. Among 631 ...

Anushka Arora, an undergraduate researcher in UAB's Honors College Personalized Pathway program, won first place in her category at the UAB Spring Expo for her poster presentation, “A Pilot Study: ...