A severe whipworm infection can cause frequent, painful bowel movements of mucus, water, and blood. Most intestinal worms do not cause symptoms if the infection is light. Gastrointestinal symptoms ...

They are densest at the beginning of the small intestine and begin to thin out toward the end. The mucus membranes also contain Lieberkühn glands that secrete digestive enzymes that help break down ...

TULSA, Okla. — Our Blood Institute is asking the community to donate blood due to seasonal illnesses impacting the amount of available blood for patients. "We are doing everything we can to ...

India faces a significant shortfall in blood supply, leading to 12,000 deaths daily. Healthy individuals aged 18-65 with a minimum weight of 45 kg can donate, if they meet specific health criteria.

Neuron-associated macrophages are crucial for the survival and homoeostasis of enteric neurons that control gastrointestinal motility and intestinal secretion. Blood vessel-associated macrophages ...

January’s National Blood Donor Month gives us the ideal opportunity to remind folks that the U.S. is facing a critical and ongoing shortage in its national blood supply. And the extreme heat ...

U.S. hospitals are again overwhelmed, but the emergencies are not patients — they are a constant flood of cybersecurity and ransomware attacks. At the start of February 2025, New York’s blood centers ...

The winter storm that hit Kentucky in early January hurt the state’s blood supply, the Kentucky Blood Center said Monday. The wintry conditions — snow, ice and freezing temperatures — caused the blood ...

The intestinal barrier is a structure that prevents harmful substances, such as bacteria and endotoxins, from penetrating the intestinal wall and entering human tissues, organs, and microcirculation.

A Texas mother named Ashley Haugen has opened up about a widely used children’s toy that left her daughter with brain damage. Asley’s eight-year-old daughter Kipley Haugen, suffered brain damage after ...

Why are broodmares so prone to colic, and what colic causes are most common for them? Veterinarians at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital answer your questions about sales and healthcare of Thoroughbred ...