A new study indicates a common genetic variant may interact with gut bacteria to trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis. The findings may help explain why people experience the disease ...

Ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is marked by periods of remission times when you experience few, if any symptoms followed by relapses caused by active inflammation, ...

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 ...