Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It causes painful sores and inflammation deep inside your colon and rectum. That can lead to hard-to-manage symptoms like ...

Colitis and ulcerative colitis (UC) can look very similar because they share symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea, and bloody stool, and they both involve inflammation of the colon (the large ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have shed light on how an unusual population of T cells may drive harmful inflammation in people with ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune disease ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC), a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is often associated with extraintestinal complications — those that occur in other parts of the body, such as the skin, eyes, and ...

"Due to the timing of diagnosis during this critical period of physical, intellectual, and psychosocial development, the higher rate of colectomy, and their longer lifespan without a colon, it is ...

Your belly hurts. The diarrhea keeps coming. And you certainly don’t feel like eating. These can be telltale signs of colitis. But which kind? Colitis is a term used to describe inflammation in your ...