Probiotics, helpful bacteria added to foods or taken in pill form, are one of the hottest trends in the food world. Of course, like most things in thi...
Despite the U.S. Government s love affair with milk. Milk is NOT a health food. In fact, Dr. Fuhrman is more likely to call milk a health hazard tha...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises a number of disorders, such as ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn disease (CD). A retrospective cohort study...
This is a collection of articles I have found interesting in the weekly editions of the big five medical journals: NEJM, JAMA, Annals, Lancet and BM...
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on the claims made about unpasteurized raw milk. The Associated Press reports:The unpasteurized milk...
Dr. Sarkis K. Mazmanian, assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and colleagues have been investigating the symbiotic relationship between bacteria...
A 77 year old woman with a long-standing history of Crohn's colitis presents to the ER for left lower quadrant abdominal discomfort, nausea, and loose...
Stressful life events are known to be associated with flares of both inflammatory bowel disorders (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) but the mec...