Our knowledge of how the stomach works was rooted in an accident: In 1822, a fur trapper named Alexis St. Martin shot himself in the side, and the resulting wound left a permanent opening to his ...
A new $3.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant is helping University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) researchers delve into one of the body’s most fascinating processes ...
Diabetes and weight loss injectables Ozempic and Wegovy, the brand names for semaglutide, get dramatic results because they slow the movement of food through the digestive system. That’s how the drugs ...