Blocking immune 'signal two' expands gut tolerance cells, may open new IBD treatments

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators made an unexpected finding about how the immune system normally suppresses inappropriate ...

Simple 'gut reset' procedure may prevent weight rebound following GLP-1 discontinuation

An outpatient procedure may offer a way for the estimated 70% of people who discontinue popular weight-loss drugs to avoid ...
Medical News Today

What to expect from an enteroscopy and how to prepare

An enteroscopy is a procedure that uses a flexible tube called an endoscope to examine inside the small intestine. Enteroscopy is a nonsurgical procedure to diagnose and manage conditions of the small ...
The Conversation

Poop has been an easy target for microbiome research, but voyages into the small intestine shed new light on ways to improve gut health

Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be said about an elephant by examining just its tail? Researchers have studied what is most ...