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 ...

The Rome V criteria for IBS identified a different group of patients, with lower sensitivity than either Rome III or IV ...

A gastrointestinal (GI) disease affects your digestive tract—the path food and drink take through your body and the digestive organs. GI diseases can impact your esophagus (the tube running down from ...

For decades, lung disease has been the most visible and life-threatening part of cystic fibrosis. People might picture ...

Three people with indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) share what life has been like since being diagnosed with the rare blood disorder.

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.

“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, ...

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 ...

Hematochezia was the most common symptom in patients with AAV and GI manifestations, and other symptoms included abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea, and vomiting. In those with antineutrophil cytoplasmic ...