Gastrointestinal diseases can be functional, affecting how the GI tract works, or structural, involving physical changes or problems. Examples of functional GI diseases include IBS and functional ...

A gastrointestinal (GI) disease affects your digestive tract—the path food and drink take through your body and the digestive organs. GI diseases can impact your esophagus (the tube running down from ...

Motility disorders are disorders where the gastrointestinal tract has lost its ability to coordinate the muscles that perform common functions, such as swallowing or moving food and waste through the ...

When you have iron-deficiency anemia, low iron leads to a lack of red blood cells to carry oxygen to various parts of your body. Sometimes a gastrointestinal (GI) disorder causes this type of anemia.

An 11-year-old girl presents with a 6-month history of abdominal pain and nausea upon awakening most days, but no pain at night. Can you make the diagnosis? An 11-year-old girl presents with a 6-month ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In 1988, President Ronal Reagan declared May National Digestive Diseases Awareness Month, and since then ...

Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) are common diagnoses characterized by physical abdominal complaints in the absence of objective findings on physical examination or laboratory results.

Adults with gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are significantly more likely to experience sleep disturbances than those without GI conditions, a new study involving more than 10,000 individuals has found ...

The appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin is released by endocrine cells in the stomach that are part of the enteric nervous system, which controls hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. A team of ...