High-fiber vegetables are a great way to meet your daily needs for both vegetables and fiber and bring you health benefits. This list will help you select the best ones.

An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented detail—from the whole organ ...

A study finds SC use is concentrated among a small number of surgeons and hospitals. Authors say it should be saved for clear-cut cases because it can harm patients.

Now, modern science is revealing what we’ve long known, in one form or another: that the health of our gut affects much more than just food digestion. Not only is the gastrointestinal system involved ...

New research says that just one episode of binge drinking can impact the intestinal lining, causing “leaky gut” syndrome Getty Binge drinking can damage the lining of the intestine, allowing harmful ...

Just one episode of binge drinking — consuming four alcoholic drinks in two hours (for women) or five (for men) — can cause serious harm to the body, new research says. In a study aimed to examine ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) did not lower in-hospital deaths among patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. At 90 days, 27.9% of patients who underwent SDD died before ...

New research finds that common nervous system components are present in the gastrointestinal tract where they influence tumour growth, revealing untapped opportunities for cancer treatment. GLOBAL: ...

I’ve bombed a few tests in my life. This one was a real gut punch. My microbiome’s health was rated as “poor.” I had my gut microbiome—the collection of bacteria in the digestive tract—tested as part ...

While most of us only think of our digestive system as helping to process the foods we eat or being behind the occasional stomach ache, a healthy gut can also impact everything from stronger immunity ...

Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune diseases, like lupus, that don’t primarily affect the gastrointestinal system. But how those bacteria affect the human immune system remains ...