Learn about common early signs of ulcerative colitis, including blood in stool, diarrhea, cramping, bloating, and bowel ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Key Takeaways IBD pain can feel like cramping or sudden pain after eating.Pain from Crohn’s disease is often in the right lower quadrant or middle of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Aideen Stack had never heard of ulcerative colitis before first being afflicted by symptoms in 2018. Here, she talks about managing the condition, and the link between physical and mental health ...

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: ...