If you have ulcerative colitis (UC), your first line of treatment will likely be medication. But even with medication, sometimes symptoms continue to flare, tanking your quality of life along the way.

"Due to the timing of diagnosis during this critical period of physical, intellectual, and psychosocial development, the higher rate of colectomy, and their longer lifespan without a colon, it is ...

Although ulcerative colitis (UC) can often be managed by taking medications and making lifestyle changes, surgery might be considered if yourtreatment isnt working well enough for you, or if you ...

Researchers in Canada found using steroids before ulcerative colitis surgery is associated with a higher risk for postoperative sepsis and clotting, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy news reported. The ...

The risk for colectomy declined over the past two decades among Finnish patients with newly diagnosed ulcerative colitis (UC), particularly between 2013 and 2020, when several advanced treatment ...

Visit our podcast page to listen to "Take What Serves. Leave the Rest" and subscribe using your preferred podcast provider. Learn more at takewhatserves.podbean.com. In this episode, Bryan talks to ...

Greater access to innovative treatments could be linked to a drop in patients requiring surgery for a type of inflammatory bowel disease, a 20-year study suggests. The number of patients using ...

Compared with patients not undergoing surgery, fewer patients with IBD who had bariatric surgery reached the composite primary endpoint of IBD-related hospitalization, initiation of corticosteroids, ...

A major operation that is often performed on women with severe inflammation of the colon appears to reduce their fertility, researchers report this month in the journal Gastroenterology. The condition ...