Short Bowel Syndrome

Bladder and bowel function

Inflammatory Bowel Disease IBD

Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common but poorly understood chronic (long-term) condition where the normal functions of the bowel are disrupted. Symptoms of IBS include abdominal pain or discom...

Diverticular Disease of the Stomach and Small Bowel

Coffee consumption activates bowel motility after elective colonic surgery

Patients who drank coffee, rather than water, after bowel surgery to remove a part of their colon experienced a quicker return to bowel movements and tolerance of solid food.

Refractory inflammatory bowel disease—could it be an irritable bowel?

Patients with IBD who are reportedly in remission, but continue to have symptoms of abdominal discomfort and bowel dysfunction, could have IBS in addition to IBD. This Perspectives article examines th...

Health Tip: If Bowel Control Is a Problem

-- Bowel control problems (also called fecal incontinence) can occur at any age, although they are more common in older adults. The U.S. National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse says comm...

Gut microbiota plays important role in functional bowel disorders

(American Gastroenterological Association) An estimated 50 percent of patients consulting a gastroenterologist suffer from functional bowel disorders, such as dyspepsia or irritable bowel syndrome. It...

Coffee speeds up return of bowel function after colon surgery

Patients who drank coffee, rather than water, after bowel surgery to remove a part of their colon experienced a quicker return to bowel movements and tolerance of solid food.

News digest – bowel cancer increase, major NHS changes, Cancer Drugs Fund and more

April is bowel cancer awareness month, and new figures we released this week highlight the importance of the campaign. They show that bowel cancer rates among men have increased by more than a quarter...

New bowel screening test introduced in England

Back in December we wrote about Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that six centres in England would start using Bowel Scope Screening (BSS, also known as flexi-scope or flexible sigmoidoscopy) as part of t...

Bowel Cancer Rates Increase In The UK

Over the last three and a half decades, the rate of bowel cancer among British men has increased by 30 percent while there's only been a 6 percent increase in women, according to Cancer Research UK....

How Useful Are Bowel Sounds in Assessing the Abdomen?

Background: The purpose of our study is to determine the accuracy of bowel sounds in the diagnosis of ileus and bowel obstruction. Methods: Healthy volunteers (n = 10) and patients with radiologically...

Improvement of bowel dysfunction with sacral neuromodulation for refractory urge urinary incontinence.

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is approved for urologic indications in the USA and, recently, fecal incontinence. This study described concomitant bowel dysfunction and im...

The Timing of Bowel Preparation Is More Important than the Timing of Colonoscopy in Determining the Quality of Bowel Cleansing.

AIMS: We aimed to compare the quality of bowel preparation and cecal intubation rates between morning and afternoon colonoscopies and to evaluate the difference in quality of bowel preparation accordi...

Update on the heritability of inflammatory bowel disease: The importance of twin studies.

Mesenteric cysts associated with recurrent small-bowel volvulus: cause or effect?

Recurrent small-bowel volvulus is a state of recurrent intermittent or long-standing persistent twisting of small-bowel loops around its mesentery. The association of mesenteric cysts with recurrent s...