Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term that encompasses two chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract—ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Symptoms of both forms of IBD overlap and include ...

Doctors may use blood, stool, and imaging tests to help diagnose IBD. However, endoscopy with biopsy is often essential to confirming a diagnosis and distinguishing between the two types.

Skin disorders are a common extraintestinal symptom of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), occurring in up to 25% of people with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Some of these skin conditions are ...

“In 2017, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation sent a similar health care access survey of IBD patients and found that many patients struggled with financial barriers related to care due to ...

Objective The bacterial intestinal microbiota plays major roles in human physiology and IBDs. Although some data suggest a role of the fungal microbiota in IBD pathogenesis, the available data are ...

Correspondence to Dr Séverine Vermeire, Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing - TARGID, KU Leuven, Leuven B-3000, Belgium; severine.vermeire{at}uzleuven.be IBD is a complex ...

“The mental health burden in IBD is really significant across most mental health conditions,” Katrina S. Hacker, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical ...

Australians living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are calling for more support and research amid warnings the often stigmatising condition is costing the economy $7.8 billion a year.

Armed with positive data from a phase 2b trial, Teva and Sanofi have decided to push their anti-TL1A antibody duvakitug into a phase 3 programme in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The results of ...

Crohn's disease is part of a group of conditions known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). There are five main types of Crohn's disease, each with its own set of symptoms. Doctors define each ...