One of the ways to stop a stomach infection from turning deadly is spotting the early signs. Knowing these signs can help in ...

Scientists keep learning more about the connection between the brain and the gastrointestinal system. By Christina Caron Dr.

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known as C. diff—are a serious and persistent problem for patients and hospitals ...

Our guts are full of microbes like bacteria, fungi, and viruses, and this gut microbiome has to stay properly imbalanced, or it can have a bad effect on our health. Scientists assessed the gut ...

Akkermansia muciniphila's impact on immunity and pregnancy outcomes underscores its promise as a probiotic, with implications ...

The community of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract, the gut microbiome, is healthier when certain species of microbes are present, and when it contains a diverse group of microorganisms. A ...

A new imaging approach used microscopic glowing tags to reveal gene activity in individual C. diff cells in gut tissue samples from infected mice. Here, a resulting image shows a round cross-section ...

Nevada health officials are investigating reported cases of an intestinal infection they say has been linked to animal yoga.

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine’s Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health has uncovered a critical biological link explaining why individuals with metabolic ...

Mumbai is witnessing a sharp rise in gut infections during the ongoing heatwave, with experts linking it to bacterial ...