Gastrointestinal diseases can be functional, affecting how the GI tract works, or structural, involving physical changes or problems. Examples of functional GI diseases include IBS and functional ...

Gastrointestinal diseases can cause symptoms like heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Functional GI diseases affect how the digestive system works without visible organ damage.

Celiac disease is a chronic, immune-mediated, systemic disorder caused by intolerance to gluten — a protein present in rye, barley, and wheat grains — that affects genetically predisposed individuals.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with food allergies were 15.8 times more likely to develop eosinophilic esophagitis. The prevalence of ...

Parkinson’s is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. An estimated 1.1 million people in the U.S ...

Researchers used health administrative data from the province of Ontario, Canada, to assess the association between immune-mediated GI disease and the subsequent development of an eating disorder in ...

Researchers headed by a team at East China University of Science and Technology have developed a bacterial biosensor composed of tiny hydrogel-based microspheres packed with blood-sensing bacteria ...

Wine may cause discomfort for people with gastrointestinal disorders, new research suggests. Though some evidence conflicts, studies lean toward wine causing negative effects for those with GI ...