A national audit of total abdominal colectomy for ulcerative colitis finds low 30 day mortality and a rise in laparoscopic ...

We don’t know exactly what causes ulcerative colitis (UC). We do know it happens because of a faulty response by your immune system. Your body may mistake food and normal gut bacteria as harmful ...

HealthCentral: Jeffry Katz, professor at the School of Medicine, discussed ulcerative colitis. “If a patient has refractory (unmanageable) left-sided colitis, they can be quite ill, with debilitating ...

Ulcerative colitis often develops in people aged 15-30 or 50-70. Exercise can reduce inflammation and strengthen the intestinal lining. A fecal occult blood test is a noninvasive test that can help ...

If you have ulcerative colitis, it’s important to seek treatment right away. Delaying treatment — or even downplaying your symptoms to your doctor — could turn a mild case into something much more ...

If you've been feeling well for the past few weeks -- your ulcerative colitis (UC) symptoms are better, and the disease doesn't get in the way of daily life -- you may wonder if you're in remission.

Colitis and ulcerative colitis (UC) can look very similar because they share symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody stool, and they both involve inflammation of the colon (the large ...

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive system referred to as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Unlike Crohn's disease, colitis is primarily limited to the colon (large ...

A new study reveals how gut bacteria may initiate ulcerative colitis by weakening immune defenses before inflammation occurs.

Greater background mucosal inflammation was associated with poorer survival outcomes in patients with ulcerative colitis who ...