Why Do People Get a Colonoscopy for Ulcerative Colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and sores to form in the large intestine and rectum.

If you have a family history of colorectal cancer or conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, your doctor may recommend starting sooner. After you turn 45, you should have a colonoscopy every ...

Ella Rhian had never experienced any stomach problems before and lived a normal, healthy life. Then, in September 2023, the ...

Research by the Cluster of Excellence PMI and the DFG Research Unit “miTarget” shows that a protein frequently found in the ...

It is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohn’s disease most often affects the end of the small intestine and the beginning of the colon (large intestine), but it may also affect any part of ...