Oct. 10 -- THURSDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- If bitter-tasting food makes you feel ill, it may just be your digestive system doing its job, a new report says. Researchers at the University of ...

A sulfur-containing amino acid called cysteine could help cancer patients recover from gut damage caused by chemotherapy and ...

Small intestine cancer is a rare cancer that develops in the tissues of the small intestine, a 20-foot-long organ that ...

The intestinal immune system can usually recognize friend from foe. But for approximately 30 million Americans with food allergies—including four million children—immune cells mistakenly identify food ...

When is food simply nourishing and enjoyable, and when does it provoke an allergic reaction? The answer appears to lie in the balance of microbes that live in our intestine — and a specific protein ...

A preventive approach that eliminates multi-resistant E. coli bacteria from the gut before complications develop would therefore be more sensible and sustainable. This is exactly where the current ...

Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group has filed a patent for the use of human milk oligosaccharide, specifically fucosyl-based oligosaccharide 2′-FL or 3-FL, in improving the health of the intestinal ...