May 16, 2011 — In patients undergoing colectomy, obesity is associated with a 60% increased risk for surgical site infection (SSI), and those developing SSIs had significantly increased costs and ...

Inflammatory bowel disease, often called IBD, is a long-term condition that causes ongoing inflammation in the digestive system. The two main types are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. People ...

Colon cancer is linked to changes in the human gut microbes.

Cases of deadly E. coli food poisoning surged by nearly 80 per cent in a year, new official figures show — with six Britons confirmed to have died from the infection. The UK Health Security Agency ...

What Is Proctitis and How Does It Compare to UC? Proctitis is inflammation of the rectum, the last part of the large intestine that connects the colon to the anus. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a type of ...

According to the report, Alabama hospitals performed better than the national average in three of four key infection ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known as C. diff—are a serious and persistent problem for patients and hospitals ...