Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a long-term condition that causes ulcers and swelling in the digestive tract.

Taking medications consistently helps keep symptoms more stable.

Diet alone can lead children with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease into clinical remission, suggests a small study published online December 27, 2016, in the Journal of Clinical ...

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 ...

A study in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology investigated the effect of the specific carbohydrate diet on active inflammatory bowel disease, to determine whether diet is an effective therapeutic ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Low-dose tricyclic antidepressant therapy is effective in treating moderately severe functional symptoms in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who are not experiencing ...

“While there are different theories as to exactly why this occurs, it is thought to result from inappropriate immune system activation.” Joints can be painful even when GI symptoms are in remission, ...

Adjunct therapies like the Mediterranean diet, exercise, and CBT can improve quality of life for IBS and IBD patients by reducing persistent digestive symptoms. Despite standard drug treatments, many ...