Doctors use tests such as an endoscopy and complete blood count to check for signs of remission in the gut.

SCREENING ARE KEY. TWO DECADES AGO, JENNIFER MEDINA, NOW 46 YEARS OLD, NOTICED SOMETHING WITH HER BODY WAS OFF. I WAS ORIGINALLY DIAGNOSED WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS IN 2006, SO 20 YEARS AGO, AND IT WAS ...

Treatment failure occurs when an ulcerative colitis medication isn’t helping symptoms. Most important, know that it’s not your fault. Learn what to do next.

A new study indicates a common genetic variant may interact with gut bacteria to trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis. The findings may help explain why people experience the disease ...

Testing for somatic genomic copy number alterations (CNAs) in ulcerative colitis patients with low-grade dysplasia was able to predict risk of advanced neoplasia more accurately than other currently ...

Your physical health can affect your mental well-being. Here's how a UC diagnosis specifically might impact your psyche, and ...

An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist has discovered that certain sugars produced by the body play an important role in the development of colitis and, ultimately, colon cancer. The new ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 3.1 million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a risk factor for colorectal cancer, but the precise stratification of risk based on different types of dysplasia is less understood. In this nationwide study of ...

Enhanced image showing where genes are active in colon tissue, revealing neutrophils located close to pre-cancerous epithelial cells [Longman Lab] It is known that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) ...