Here are some interesting facts about the human body: Just like fingerprints, your tongue is unique — it’s got its own tongue print. We shed about 600,000 teeny tiny skin particles every hour. That’s ...

"Not only were we able to deliver an mRNA-based anti-inflammatory drug directly to the inflamed intestine and improve all markers of colitis and Crohn's disease, but we also transformed the immune ...

A new study reveals that entacapone, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease, significantly disrupts the gut microbiome by ...

It basically kept getting passed off as, like, anxiety or stress since I was meeting someone new and eating new foods...” ...

A new study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that young children who eat more fiber may have a lower risk of ...

ROME — Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since being elected in 2013, after he was diagnosed with ...

While boomer parents may have had good intentions when teaching these lessons, turns out there wasn't much validity to them.

The peripheral sources of CRH remain to be further understood. This paper aims to identify the sources of CRH in the intestine. Methods and results: Mice were treated with chronic restraint stress. A ...

But the good news is that you'll probably feel pretty healthy anyway as your small intestine heals. Once you're diagnosed with celiac disease and begin the gluten-free diet, your villi generally start ...

Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the interior (lumen) of the small intestine. The primary function of villi is to absorb nutrients from food and transfer ...

IT has been shown by Frazer 1,2,3 that a fat, such as triolein, is only partially digested in the intestine by the pancreatic juice. Hydrolysis determines the path taken by the absorbed fatty ...

Sometimes bronchitis can lead to pneumonia, a deeper and far more serious infection of the lungs’ air sacs. Francis said he ...