Cottontails who survive winter see their population begin to rebound in March, when females give birth to the first litter of ...

Doctors from Johns Hopkins University brought their groundbreaking practice ‘patient’ to Florida International University — a ...

GH investigates the easy at-home test that could figure out your gut health. Plus, the one thing 90% of us aren’t getting ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH The navel, also known as the belly button or umbilicus, is a small, round, or ...

The diet also increased beneficial bacterial metabolites (byproducts) in the gut, such as short-chain fatty acids, and in the ...

Western diets—high in processed foods and low in fiber—are associated with obesity, diabetes and heart disease. These diets ...

By Michelle Spear When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to ...

A 'remarkable' diet adapted from the daily routine of people in remote parts of Papua New Guinea has been found to significantly reduce cholesterol and blood sugar as well as helping people lose ...

When consumed, they are absorbed in the small intestine and transported via lipoproteins in the bloodstream to be stored primarily in fat-rich tissues, including the subcutaneous layer of the skin.

Colon cancer develops when tumorous growths form in the large intestine. It often produces ... not reveal polyps or if they are only within a small area. This X-ray procedure uses a liquid called ...

T-cells that infiltrate or reside in the intestinal mucosa sense and respond to pathogen-associated antigens presented by mucosal antigen-presenting cells, most commonly in Peyers patches of the small ...