'Rare' gut disease rates soaring
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A relatively unheard-of gut disorder is becoming much more common, say US researchers.
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Rates of obesity and diabetes are rising across England, although life expectancy has never been higher, government data reveals.
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LONDON - A bacterium that causes intestinal illness in cattle and sheep could also be responsible for Crohn&#39;s disease, researchers said.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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Emergency room visits for vomiting and diarrhea -- the most common symptoms of norovirus, or the stomach flu -- have jumped to 500 a day this month from 300 a day in November.
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San Francisco public health officials issued a warning Monday that a rare and potentially debilitating sexually transmitted disease reported recently in the Netherlands has turned up among a small number of patients in the city.
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Sufferers are being lured by faddish diets from private clinics, doctors say.
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Scientists say they have found two genetic mutations that could triple the risk of developing bowel cancer.
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People with chronic stomach  acid reflux may have an increased risk of developing cancer of  the larynx or "voice box," a study suggests.
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Patients with Crohn&#39;s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, who do not respond to conventional treatment, may get symptom relief by swallowing parasite eggs.
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Patients showing signs of heart disease are at nearly double the risk of also having colon cancer, perhaps because unhealthy habits and inflammation are at the root of both, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Crohn&#39;s disease may be caused by the same bacterium that causes a similar intestinal disorder in animals, according to a study published in the medical journal Lancet.
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NEW YORK  - More than half of patients with advanced COPD have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), new research suggests.
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A strain of bacteria that has been plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. A study by McGill University epidemiologist Vivian Loo looked at incidents of Clostridium
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Two New York men have been diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease that has recently been making inroads among gay and bisexual men in Europe.
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More than twice as many people have fallen ill this year with a strain of bacteria responsible for food poisoning, experts say.
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Good news for the nation's babies: Nearly 90 percent of newborns are getting tested for a host of rare but devastating genetic disorders.